title: Big Bang Cosmology and Religious Thought
abstract: Alexander Friedmann and Georges Lemaître are undoubtedly the real fathers of Big Bang cosmologies. In this article I study the influences their work underwent due to some religious as well as anti-religious ideas. During his career Lemaître faced criticisms coming from non-believing scientists, who reproached him (wrongly) to have developed his primeval atom cosmology for conciliatory reasons. In the former case of Friedmann, we know that his 1922 proposal of a "creation of the world out of noth
journal: arXiv (Cornell University)