Lemaître was not wrong to say what he said when he said it to Pius XII. What you persist in is the notion that Lemaître was admonishing the pope as if he was wrong, when he was only admonishing the pope because Pius was premature in citing Lemaitre’s discovery as consistent with Genesis. It was not until after the death of Pius in 1958 and just before the death of Lemaître that evidence confirming the Big Bang began to pour in. Lemaître was gratified on his deathbed to learn that the echo of the Big Bang could still be heard throughout the universe. Again, you never tire of trying to use Catholics to refute the views of other Catholics. It’s a failed strategy, but one I doubt you will ever stop trying to use as it seems to be programmed into many of your attacks on the posters as CA.
Well no, that’s just silly. If, as you claim, the evidence is now in, then every Pope since 1960 would shout from the roof tops that science has proven Genesis. Instead of which there is a deafening silence. Because no, science didn’t prove it, Lemaître is still correct.
For we walk by faith, not by sight even though you may wish to kill off faith and replace it with faux certainties.
And no, I’ve not “attacked” any other poster on this, because no other poster makes the claim. Just as no Pope makes the claim, no poster has either. No one except you.
And I don’t quote Catholics to refute the views of other Catholics. I quote truths to refute untruths.
npatrol:
What T.V. Show are you talking about? My quote was from Cosmos the book, not a T.V. show.
Err… it’s the book of the TV series. Now come on, you’ve been quoting it for ever and a day and you never knew? You’re kidding?
You didn’t comment on the main point of my post. By placing scripture alongside a quote from a TV show I think you make if superficial and trivialize the author’s intention. Are not Catholics taught to read scripture prayerfully? Please look again at the depth of meaning found in “Let there be light” by Matthew Henry:
*We have here a further account of the first day’s work, in which observe, 1. That the first of all visible beings which God created was light; not that by it he himself might see to work (for the darkness and light are both alike to him), but that by it we might see his works and his glory in them, and might work our works while it is day. The works of Satan and his servants are works of darkness; but he that doeth truth, and doeth good, cometh to the light, and coveteth it, that his deeds may be made manifest, John 3:21. Light is the great beauty and blessing of the universe. Like the first-born, it does, of all visible beings, most resemble its great Parent in purity and power, brightness and beneficence; it is of great affinity with a spirit, and is next to it; though by it we see other things, and are sure that it is, yet we know not its nature, nor can describe what it is, or by what way the light is parted, Job 38:19, 24. By the sight of it let us be led to, and assisted in, the believing contemplation of him who is light, infinite and eternal light (1 John 1:5), and the Father of lights (Jas. 1:17), and who dwells in inaccessible light, 1 Tim. 6:16. In the new creation, the first thing wrought in the soul is light: the blessed Spirit captives the will and affections by enlightening the understanding, so coming into the heart by the door, like the good shepherd whose own the sheep are, while sin and Satan, like thieves and robbers, climb up some other way. Those that by sin were darkness by grace become light in the world. 2. That the light was made by the word of God’s power. He said, Let there be light; he willed and appointed it, and it was done immediately: there was light, such a copy as exactly answered the original idea in the Eternal Mind. O the power of the word of God! He spoke, and it was done, done really, effectually, and for perpetuity, not in show only, and to serve a present turn, for he commanded, and it stood fast: with him it was dictum, factum—a word, and a world. The world of God (that is, his will and the good pleasure of it) is quick and powerful. Christ is the Word, the essential eternal Word, and by him the light was produced, for in him was light, and he is the true light, the light of the world, John 1:9; 9:5. The divine light which shines in sanctified souls is wrought by the power of God, the power of his word and of the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, opening the understanding, scattering the mists of ignorance and mistake, and giving the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ, as at first, God commanded the light to shine out of darkness, 2 Cor. 4:6. Darkness would have been perpetually upon the face of fallen man if the Son of God had not come, and given us an understanding, 1 John 5:20. 3. *
The pattern of growth is the Fibonacci series. Start with 1 and 1, add them to make the next term, then in the same way keep adding the last two terms of the series to make the next. That’s the pattern of growth. Straightforward replication.
