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Conference set to take place May 9 to 12https://i.cbc.ca/1.3045519.1457118518!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/ngc-2060-hubble-space-telescope-tarantula-nebula-april-17-2012.jpg
The Vatican has invited some of the world's top scientists to discuss black holes and other astronomical phenomena.
The Associated Press Posted: May 08, 2017 12:19 PM ET
The Vatican is celebrating the big-bang theory. That's not as out of this world as it sounds.
The Vatican Observatory has invited some of the world's leading scientists and cosmologists to talk black holes, gravitational waves and space-time singularities as it honours a Jesuit cosmologist considered one of the fathers of the idea that the universe began with a gigantic explosion.
The May 9-12 conference honouring Monsignor George Lemaitre is being held at the Vatican Observatory, founded by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 to help correct the notion that the Roman Catholic Church was hostile to science. The perception has persisted in some circles since Galileo's heresy trial 400 years ago.
The head of the observatory, Brother Guy Consolmagno, says you can believe in both God and the big bang theory.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/vatican-hosts-world-s-leading-cosmologists-to-bring-together-faith-and-science-1.4104545
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(22 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)Thanks.
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ExciteBike66
(2,357 posts)"The head of the observatory, Brother Guy Consolmagno, says you can believe in both God and the big bang theory. "
Well, duh! Of course you can believe in both. You can also believe in weeping statuary...
Bretton Garcia
(970 posts)Especially in the era of a pederastical church?
rug
(82,333 posts)Or does the mention of God cause you to make these bizarre comments?
Bretton Garcia
(970 posts).. based his idea of the Big Bang in part, on some suspiciously Freudian imagery, a "cosmic egg," or primal atom, and so forth.
And that's the problem with cosmologies. In general, they are all so very highly religuous/speculative, that they tend to be far more highly the projection of our inner psychology or cultural biases, than any actual objective knowledge.
It is said that in the case of LeMaitre, rightly Einstein said that his math was good, but his physics was "atrocious".
We might credit his interest in a primal explosion to his work as a Belgian artillery officer. And the rest to the odd preoccupations of priests.
rug
(82,333 posts)First 1), Le Maitre's need for any kind of origin myth or tale at all, is a typical religious need. Many others are simply content to suggest that the origin of the universe is probably unknowably complex.
So first of all, no origin tale us needed at all, for many of us. But religion desperately seeks reassurance and even assurances of certainty there
rug
(82,333 posts)I'd ask you to prove it but I couldn't stand wading through your reply.
Boating, in this case.
Bretton Garcia
(970 posts)In most cultures. They are considered to be religion, and myths.
More modern cultures, philosophies, don't bother with metaphysics, cosmology. Having found them so contradictory. And unprovable
Instead Existentialism for example, just concentrates on the far more knowable and immediate human condition.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Since you are apparently in analyst mode, please enlighten us as to what exactly that means.