11-March-2005, 10:38 AM
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Re: Was Newton a real scientist?
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Originally Posted by A Thousand Pardons
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Originally Posted by Disinfo Agent
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Originally Posted by TriangleMan
[...] IIRC there was some resistance at first to the concept of the Big Bang theory because it hinted at "something from nothing". If so then it is an example of science being impeded because of atheism rather than due to a religious belief.
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In another thread, Sam5 brought up LeMaitre, a Catholic Priest, who came up with the Big Bang theoy, and that there was some resistance. |
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Originally Posted by Sam5
When the modern big bang theory was invented by Lemaitre in 1927, it was ignored because he was a Catholic Priest working for a Vatican observatory. But when Hubble made his startling announcement in 1929, all of a sudden the atheists started tracing the radial movement of the galaxies backwards and realized that if the universe was indeed expanding, it had a beginning a few billion years earlier, then all the atheist textbooks and popular books were changed to support the new “expansion of the universe” theory. They gradually began to admit that the universe did apparently have a beginning after all, but they failed to credit religious people like Lemaitre, Newton, and Bentley, who had been claiming this was true for hundreds of years.
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It sounds like a very simplistic, black-and-white, Christians=good/atheists=bad description, but, since I haven't researched the history of the Big Bang theory, I'll shut up now.
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