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