Have Science and Religion Always Been at Odds?

The Big Bang Theory was first proposed by Catholic priest Georges Lemaître
in the 1920s.

Edwin Hubble usually gets top billing for the Big Bang Theory, which
suggests that the universe was born in a massive explosion, roughly 13.8
billion years ago. According to the Big Bang Theory, all of the matter that
exists now came from this cataclysmic expansion, and most scientists
believe that the expansion of the universe continues today. The first
scientist with this intergalactic view was actually Georges Lemaître, a
Belgian mathematician and Catholic priest who called his hypothesis the
Cosmic Egg in 1927.

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