[NEWwoman]

I understand the Catholic Church has been very pro-science. Didn’t a priest coin the “Big Bang”?

[circlecity]

"I understand the Catholic Church has been very pro-science. Didn’t a priest coin the “Big Bang”?"

The Christian Church created the University system. One area the Catholic and Protestant church have been very much in agreement on was the progress of institutionalized higher education. Virtually every Ivy League college started out as a Christian seminary.

[cripplecreek]

Monseigneur Georges Lemaître was the originator of the big bang theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre