Tag Archives: Piety

Georges Lemaître and the Big Bang: The Limits of Piety

Posted on June 7, 2026 by theamericanplutarch

Georges Lemaître was a Catholic priest and military veteran who in the 1920s and 1930s made astonishing theoretical discoveries that overturned the steady-state universe, the eternal unchanging universe that astronomers had believed in for millennia. Father Lemaître argued that the … Continue reading →

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The Pious Scientist Jeremy Belknap

Posted on March 23, 2015 by theamericanplutarch

Jeremy Belknap, who is featured in three of my books: Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap, and the American Revolution, Passaconaway’s Realm, and the American Plutarch, was a pious scientist. He believed that piety is the most important response of the scientist to … Continue reading →

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