Ironies

Scientists considered the Big Bang Theory so similar to Genesis, that some atheistic scientists were determined to disprove it, yet eventually some religious authorities construed the theory as anti-Genesis;

Einstein rejected the truth of the Biblical creation and believed in an eternal universe; when his theory predicted the expansion of the universe and therefore the implication that the universe 'began', he rejected that implication and [for that and other reasons] changed his equations instead, which was according to him, his greatest blunder [see my book "Einstein's Blunder and the God who plays Dice";

What was considered to be infallible scientific truth by a scientist writing about the conflict between religion and science was disproven;

The original alleged 'conflict' regarding the purported Biblical belief in geocentrism rather than Copernican solar-centrism technically disappeared twice: when the universe was understood to be vast and not solar-centered at all, and even moreso when Einstein's theory showed that it is equally incorrect to state unequivocally as a fact that the Earth goes around the sun (Copernican solar-centrism) as to state that the sun goes around the Earth (geocentrism)! (Beware: both fundamentalists and anti-religionists have distorted the intent of my article "GeoCentrism", to be posted soon.) [They both suffer from eGoCentrism?!].

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