The Big Bang hypothesis itself was first proposed by a Catholic priest, George Lemaître, which he described as ‘a Creation-like event’, specifically referencing previous myths of the Cosmic Egg. The Pope at the time went on to declare he had ‘proved’ Catholicism. But even this ‘scientific’ hypothesis did not last long before the mathematics had to be fudged to get the priest-created article of faith to ‘work’: in 1979, it was suggested that the universe underwent a period of exponential growth known as ‘inflation’ before slowing back down to its apparent, currently expanding state. The physics
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