The contribution to science from the catholic church

[Marcus]

I am currently doing my bachelors in electrical engineering so I do what most students best and procrastinate. While I was wasting time and not doing my work I came across a video that talked about a Belgium priest in the 1920s who came up with the Big Bang theory.
Now as a academic student I always thought the Big Bang was the creation of an atheist scientist especially how my friends discredit the Catholic Church as being against science.
What offer types of ways has the catholic contributed to science?

 

[sko]

The individual contributions are likely far too numerous to fairly enumerate. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to contribute Hence, meet Fr. Gregor Johann Mendel, an Augustinian friar, abbot of St. Thomas’s abbey, which is nowadays the only Augustinian abbey in the world (the others are priories), and the founder of genetics – his experiments with crossbreeding of peas led him to describe the rules of genetic heredity, the distinction between dominant and recessive traits and more. Among other things, he also experimented on bees, but his brothers didn’t take too kindly to his beehives, so he eventually had to get rid of them.

If you ever happen to visit the city, make sure to stop by the abbey – the exhibitions are pretty cool and it has a splendid High Gothic basilica.

 

[Bradskii]

Catholicism doesn’t constribute to science. It’s not concerned with science per se. But Catholics certainly have. Just as have atheists, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Protestants etc etc.

I wouldn’t go mentally scoring brownie points for Catholicism just because a scientist professes to be Catholic.

 

[Marcus]

This is not brownie points I am taking two of my passions of mine Catholicism and stem subjects and seeing how they interlink also the Vatican has a huge observatory so to say it’s not concerned with any science and rejects it is an absurd claim to make.

 

[Titivillus]

In addition to Fr Georges Lemaitre’s conception of the Big Bang Theory, the Church has made many other contributions to the field of astronomy (mostly in service of the computus, the calculation of the date of Easter) and still maintains astronomical observations to this day.

 

[Theo520]

What offer types of ways has the catholic contributed to science?

It’s more of a case of where haven’t they contributed to science.
It’s kinda obvious when you think about the role the church played,
The Church had the most educated people in their ranks, and ran the schools.
There wasn’t a modern university system staffed by atheist instructors.