Edmond Krish, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist is murdered objectively when he is about to reveal to the world the clandestine of the Origin sealed in his discovery “De onde viemos? Para onde vamos?” “Where do we come from? And where do we go?”. The book of Dan Brown “Origin” is a fictitious novel conflicting interplay between the science and religion and the center subject is “Origin”.
Georges Henri Joseph Edouard Lemaitre was a Belgian Roman Catholic Priest, cosmologist, astronomer and Scientist (17 July 1894 “ 20 June 1966). He was educated at the Jesuit Secondary School, the College de Sacre’Coeur, in Charleroi, Belgium and went to study civil engineering. In 1914 his studies were interpreted to serve as an artillery officer in the Belgian army in world war I. As the war ended, he continued his studies in physics and mathematics and simultaneously prepared for the diocesan priesthood. He was awarded doctorate in 1920 and was ordained a priest in 1923.
Lemaitre was the first to discover that the universe was expanding and concluded that it must have expanded from one point in time. He categorically defined that the expanding universe must have been smaller and smaller in the past and thus it must have had a finite beginning at a point and he called that point a “superatom”. Thereby, describing that the expansion of the universe had resulted from the explosion of this “primeval atom” or a “cosmic egg” creating the universe. Later it was known as the “Big Bang Theory”, the origin of the universe.
Initially the idea of Lemaitre’s expanding universe was not appreciated or supported by fellow scientist and others. Even Albert Einstein was primarily unwilling to accept the idea of an expanding universe because he described a static universe. At a conference in 1930, Lemaitre presented his theory “hypothesis of the primeval atom” or the “Cosmic Egg”. Explaining it in detail, Einstein acclaimed and remarked, “This is the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation to which I have ever listened.”
Lemaitre was not only a brilliant priest, but he was also Monseigneur, but when Pope XII referred his theory of Origin to prove that it is a scientific proof of Catholic faith Lemaitre politely turned down by quoting “As far as I can see, such a theory remains entirely outside any metaphysical or religious question. It leaves the materialist free to deny any transcendental Being… For the believer, it removes any attempt at familiarity with God… It is consonant with Isaiah speaking of the hidden God, hidden even in the beginning of the universe.”
Monsignor George Lemaitre was constantly deeply rooted in his faith and his vocation never changed by making known to the world the findings and the discovery of the universe, not philosophically or theologically but from physics.
Though the discovery and findings were contradictory to the first chapter of the Bible his faith remained unchanged. Even if the Theologians and Scientists war with various theories still they will prove nothing as one don’t know from were the first singularity came from.
The Bible simply and plainly reveals us that the entire universe, that includes the earth and various kinds of biological organisms came into existence during the six days of creation that is within a week.
Advancement in science with different theories, it is difficult to believe in the Biblical account of creation, at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope declared that the theory of evolution and the big bang are real, and God in not “a magician with a wand”. He said “When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. The big bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it. Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.”
For Christians, it is their faith that pulls them towards the Holy Bible. As in Portuguese “Sem fé é impossÃvel crer que Deus existe.” The entire Old Testament of the Bible was firstly written in Hebrews, though some of the chapters in the prophecies of Ezra and Daniel and one verse in Jeramiah were written in Aramaic. The central theme of the Old Testament is prophecies and the coming of the Messiah the Lord Jesus Christ. It is a fact that the prophets prophesied the occurrences of the future regarding the Messiah with such an accuracy and details thousands of years back, giving witness that God spoke through them about the coming of the Messiah, his suffering, death and resurrection.
The astonishing predication about the sufferings of the Messiah is the prophecy of the Isaiah which contains the excellent details of the birth and suffering of Christ. The forty days season of lent ends on the Holy Thursday and “The Pascal Triduum” commences. The Holy Triduum signifies the faith of Christians, which penetrates in great depth in the mystery of Christ death and resurrection. The purpose of the Triduum is to participate in the Lords supper on Holy Thursday, the Death on Good Friday and the resurrection on Easter vigil. It is not an historical re-enactment of Christ’s passion, death and resurrection, but to deepen faith in Christ the Lord as he revealed to the world from his suffering, death and resurrection (de onde viemos e para onde iremos) where we are come from, and where we will go.
