Greetings once again fact fans from your
quick Christian history guy, Jeff Kenny,
with another installment of the
Christian origins of nearly everything I
stated repeatedly we don't mean that
title literally though it has ironic
connotations given the subject of this
edition which is the Big Bang Theory no
not that Big Bang Theory the one for
whom its name the actual theory that the
universe began with well a Big Bang
though obviously that's an
oversimplified version of the theory
itself at any rate the Big Bang Theory
was actually the work of a Catholic
priest mathematician physician
astronomer and World War one veteran
Monsignor George the matron let's see
you're the med tray originally of
Belgium studied at Cambridge Harvard and
MIT when he first posited his hypothesis
of the primeval atom theory the 1920s
the ruling thought of the day was Albert
Einstein's emphasis on a static universe
of finite size though Einsteins own
theory of general relativity was already
leading to pioneering new thoughts on
astronomy and physics further the
numbers just weren't working out if
Einstein was correct about a static
universe instead they seemed to point to
one that is and was growing Monsignor
Lemaitre theorized that if the universe
is growing it had to be doing so from
some point in time and space and that
it's growth if it could be tracked at
the beginning would have started at what
he called a super atom whose explosion
set the physical universe into motion as
a side note there are some obvious
parallels here with st. Thomas Aquinas
says explanation of the existence of God
as first mover but that's another
discussion for another day Albert
Einstein himself is said to have called
Monsignor lemaitre's theory quote the
most beautiful and satisfactory
explanation of creation to which I have
ever listened for what it's worth Pope
Pius the twelve stated that the Big Bang
Theory was not incompatible with
Catholic teaching much as has been the
case with many scientific theories and
discoveries in recent decades and
centuries in fact and again this is a
point for another video a long litany of
Catholic clergy and lay people have been
pioneers in scientific discovery in
theory so many in fact that one might
begin to suspect the much-ballyhooed
gala
léo affair so frequently trotted out as
a clear example of the Catholic Church's
continued opposition to science was
either an exception to the norm or a
misunderstood facet of history used as
part of a broader highly fictional
narrative intended to validate heavily
secular ideas and movements which by the
way is exactly the case the church is
supportive and work in the area of
science for hundreds upon hundreds of
years is a subject for another of our
videos if you're interested it's a
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