Reply #2: Strange but true [View All]

[Cresent City Kid]

For most of their history, the Catholic church was anti-science. Somewhere along the way, they tried to mesh their doctrine with the truths gleaned from scientific endeavor. The Big Bang is not only accepted by the Catholic church, the idea was first proposed by a priest using Einstein's equations in 1927.

Today it is only the Christian fundamentalists who cling to the original belief in the 6000-year-old universe, at least among Christians. Protestantism went 2 ways, some thought the Catholics were too fundamentalist, some thought they weren't fundamentalist enough.