And my reference to how LeMaitre might have been treated was not by his contemporaries but by yours.
I do appreciate your honest portrayal of Einstein and why he inserted a cosmological constant to keep it static. Credit where credit is due Professor.
No. I know several of the evos on FR believe God set the initial conditions of the universe and set everything in motion, such that evolution would happen. In fact, I'd wager we atheists are a rather small minority among the evos. Creationists, as I, and I think most people, use the word, believe in specific intervention of a deity in the origin of life or of species. Lemaitre may also have been a creationist as it pertains to life (I don't know) but his philosophical belief that the Big Bang was a divine creation event does not make him a creationist in my book. And actually, having read now a little bit about him, I'd be a little disappointed if he were an advocate of 'God the tinkerer'.