As for your comment that the hypothesis was first put forth by the Catholic Priest Lemaitre, that hypothesis was based on Einstein's theory of general relativity that could explain the phenomenon. And Lemaitre was not merely a Priest...in 1923, he became a graduate student in astronomy at the University of Cambridge and worked with Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, an English astrophysicist of the early 20th century who had the the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, entitled the Eddington limit, named in his honor. From there Lemaitre went to Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts and worked with with Harlow Shapley, who had just gained a name for his work on nebulae, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his doctorate. He then became a professor of physics and an astronomer at the Catholic University of Leuven, thus the title of "Priest", which is routinely disingenuously used in the manner which you just displayed.
Furthermore, Lemaitre's theory was actually predated by a 1922 theory espoused by Alexander Friedman and lauded by Einstein, but Friedman died in 1925 so his work was never fully recognized. After Hubble's discovery was published, Einstein endorsed Lemaître's theory, helping both the theory and Lemaitre get recognition. That is why he is recognized as the original creator of the theory.
Dang...enough of this already, my brain hurts, LOL! Have a great weekend!
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