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Title    Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy
Date    Friday May 19 2017, @10:23AM
Author    cmn32480
Topic   
from the i'll-give-you-your-God-if-you-give-me-my-billions-of-years dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/05/19/0127218

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:


Original Submission

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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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