[Maximilian]

As far as Catholicism goes, I guess once the process is more-or-less perfected, it will probably accept it as it managed to accept heliocentrism.

It's not fair to criticize you for believing such things, since the secular media and educational establishment try to brainwash people into believing that prior to the "Enlightenment" men knew nothing about the universe. But such was not the case.

Try reading St. Augustine, the greatest of all the Church fathers, and the greatest mind of antiquity. He took exception to the pagan philosophers who believed that the universe was infinite in time and space. He demonstrated that the universe might be unimaginably vast, but it had a definite starting point in time and a definite limit in space.

The so-called "enlightenment" philosophers and scientists believed the Aristotelian view. It took Einstein to demonstrate that Augustine (in the year 400) was right, and the modern scientists of the 19th century were wrong.

[garbanzo]

Well, I guess Catholics are somewhat embarrassed about the Galileo incident but the point still stands - most religious institutions, the Church included, tend to accept modern ideas after some polite period of denunciation. Lest you think I'm engaging in garden-variety Catholic-bashing, I'll note that the Russian Orthodox, when first confronted with West Europeans, thought that the ability to project an image with a lens was a trick of the devil. I'm guessing that's not an official position of the Russian Orthodox today.