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Originally Posted by Frank MetaMusil
You know what's hilarious about all of this? A priest started the big bang theory.
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And many scientists didn't like the idea either because they knew it would be used (misused?) by some people to try and support their beliefs. Even the priest didn't want that.
They accepted though it because the evidence supported it.
The Pope at the time was going to use Lemaître's (the priest) work to "prove" god existed, and Lemaître was strongly against that.
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