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on Friday May 19 2017, @10:23AM
from the i'll-give-you-your-God-if-you-give-me-my-billions-of-years dept.
from the i'll-give-you-your-God-if-you-give-me-my-billions-of-years dept.
The Daily Beast reports that astronomers met at the Vatican for a conference in honour of Georges Lemaître. Lemaître, a Catholic priest and astronomer, proposed in 1927 the notion of a "primordial atom" from which the Universe originated. His idea is now commonly called the Big Bang theory. The article notes that the words "God" and "religion" are absent from the titles of the presentations.
Slides (PDF) associated with the presentations are available from the Web site of the Vatican Observatory.
further reading:
official announcement
biography of Lemaître
The Cornell Daily Sun article about Lemaître
additional coverage:
- Catholic Culture
- technoexaminer.com
- Inquisitr
- Catholic Herald Online
- The Colorado Springs Gazette
- The Independent
- Washington Examiner (opinion piece about the article in The Independent)
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(Score: 3, Informative) by butthurt on Friday May 19 2017, @05:38PM
I wasn't trying to imply otherwise. I submitted this because:
- I wasn't aware of Lemaître's work, which predates Hubble's, and thought it might be new to others
- according to the Daily Beast article, the observatory's previous symposia have had a religious aspect to them that this one didn't have
- prominent astronomers spoke
- I thought someone might be interested in looking at their slideware