Talk:Georges Lemaître

I remove the statement "(also Lemaistre)", it seems wrong: I'm somewhat familiar with cosmology and I never have seen his name written like this and Google show only 1 article with this spelling (and this is a French-Canadian one. Also his first name is not Georges-Henri; Henri is just his second (or third) firstname -- Looxix 01:09 May 11, 2003 (UTC)

timeline discrepency

In the first paragraph the article states that Lemaitre published his "Big Bang" theory between 1927 and 1933. The following sentence states that Einstein believed in a steady state model of the universe. The link to the steady state model explains that that model was developed in 1948 by Fred Hoyle and collegues. How could Einstein have believed in a steady state model in the 1930's when the model had not been proposed until 1948?

Einstein proposed a steady state cosmological model in 1917. --isidora 21:58, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

This isn't exactly true. Einstein proposed a modification to the laws of relativity to make possible an eternal universe and initially strongly disagreed with what became known as the big bang theory. However this is not the same as the steady state theory proposed by Hoyle in 1948. I won't get into that theory here, but there is significant difference. I'll update this article. TastyCakes 20:54, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

name

What's with the Fr. before his name everywhere? Is that appropriate? I can see saying "Friar" (or whatever it stands for) before his name is mentioned the first time, but calling him by his last name seems appropriate for the rest of it. No? 68.145.141.4 04:38, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

He was a priest.

Fr. Lemaitre wasn't just a scientist, he took the sacrament of Holy Orders, and as he deserves, indeed must be refered to as Fr. Lemaître, anything less is insulting towards the priestly vows Fr. Lemaitre took. As per the sacred vows he took, his holy obligations, regardless of how accomplished he was scientifically, no doubt took first priority in his life, as they do, and oughtm in the lives of all priests. Thus to strip him of his title is to reduce him to a mere scientist, when, according to Church Law, he was a priest first and foremost. I don't expect you to understand if you're not Catholic, but an honorary title such as Father in the Catholic Church is very important. To simply refer to a priest by his last name is disrespectful to him and his sacred ordination. Such disrespect would not be tolerated were it to be directed towards, perhaps, a Hindu. Why should it be accepted any more if it's directed towards a Catholic? (By the way, Fr. = Father, not Friar)