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Interesting enough, last week my local astronomical society had a talk from Dr. Guy Consolmagno, who is also a Jesuit priest, and works at the Vatican Observatory. The subject of the supposed conflict between science and religion naturally arose, and he said that, certainly from his perspective, there's no conflict at all, and the Catholic Church, at any rate, fully accepts such ideas as the Big Bang, the universe being 13.7 billion years old, evolution, etc. etc. The Vatican has a science advisory council (of which Stephen Hawking is a member) specifically to advice it on new developments in science.
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