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butthurt writes:

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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1. "butthurt" - https://soylentnews.org/~butthurt/
2. "The Daily Beast reports" - http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/14/the-vatican-s-big-bang-theory
3. "Georges Lemaître" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre
4. "Big Bang" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang
5. "Web site of the Vatican Observatory" - http://www.vaticanobservatory.va/content/specolavaticana/en/workshop-lemaitre/program.html
6. "official announcement" - http://www.vaticanobservatory.va/content/specolavaticana/en/workshop-lemaitre.html
7. "biography of Lemaître" - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dp27bi.html
8. "The Cornell Daily Sun article about Lemaître" - http://cornellsun.com/2017/05/05/prof-sheds-light-on-history-of-catholic-priest-who-proposed-big-bang/
9. "Catholic Culture" - https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=31519
10. "technoexaminer.com" - http://www.technoexaminer.com/pope-francis-invites-scientists-astrophysicists-and-cosmologists-in-order-to-better-understand-the-big-bang-theory-1335.html
11. "Inquisitr" - http://www.inquisitr.com/4206857/big-bang-theory-celebrated-by-vatican-church-instrumental-in-theoretical-formulation/
12. "Catholic Herald Online" - http://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2017/05/08/vatican-hosts-cosmology-conference-to-dispel-faith-science-conflict/
13. "The Colorado Springs Gazette" - http://gazette.com/pope-urges-scientists-never-to-fear-truth/article/1603019
14. "The Independent" - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/pope-francis-big-bang-scientists-vatican-catholic-church-realise-discuss-evolution-physics-space-a7725706.html
15. "Washington Examiner" - http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/big-bang-it-happens-when-a-media-gotcha-goes-horribly-wrong/article/2623159
16. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=20284

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