[IndispensableDestiny]

Monseigneur Georges Lemaître, a Roman Catholic priest and physics professor, was the first to propose the big bang theory and expanding universe. The big bang is entirely acceptable to the church’s dogma.

[spirited irish]

Distinctions are in order with regard to your blanket-statement: "The big bang is entirely acceptable to the church's dogma." The big bang is acceptable to progressive-minded "Christians" but not to the faithful, orthodox Christians within the whole body of the church, meaning Roman and Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Protestant.

Years ago, long-time Vatican observer Malachi Martin (1921-1999) described a situation in which the Curia is divided between 'progressive,' that is,evolutionary pantheists, and 'traditionalists;' between adherents of evolutionary conceptions such as Teilhard de Chardin's Hermetic, quasi-Hindu idea, abortion, women and 'gay' priests, and openness to non-Christian nature religions and philosophies and those who oppose such an agenda. According to Martin, 'progressives' hold all the important positions of power, and so are able to bring about a major revolution that if unchecked will constitute,

"....one of the most spectacular expressions of apostasy in the modern era, dressed up in all the traditional robes and much of the terminology of Christianity but denying its essence." (ibid, Jesus and the Den of Thieves, SCP Journal, Jones, p. 17)

A great example of a ministry consisting of faithful, orthodox Catholics is the Catholic Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation: http://www.kolbecenter.org/articles/