Blind faith which does not recognize itself, it's impossible to question a belief you don't even acknowledge having!
Which is why atheist Hoyle never changed his mind his entire life, once you have ridiculed other peoples beliefs, it makes it very hard to change your mind, no matter the evidence, or you become all the things you called others
Exactly my point, Lemaitre went out of his way to disassociate his science from his personal beliefs- because he could, he acknowledge he had such a thing, which we all do- that's how science should work.
Atheists in stark contrast- based their theories explicitly, by their own arguments, on their own personal beliefs, and continue to. The fact that they try to frame those beliefs as merely 'disbelief of the alternative' only ingrains the dogma further.
Guy Threepwood. You are cherry picking again.
You are ignoring that Fred Hoyle wasn't the only atheist involved in cosmology. And atheists didn't flock under his banner of (debunked) Steady State model.
Alexander Friedmann was a Russian theoretical physicist who migrated to the US, was an atheist. Friedmann independently came up the idea of expanding universe model (1922), 5 years before Georges Lemaître made public his own hypothesis (1927).
Both Friedmann and Lemaître used Albert Einstein's General Relativity as a framework on how their respective models work.
Einstein around this time, did agree with Lemaître hypothesis, because he had his own hypothesis about cosmology, which turned about to be a dud. Once he realised his model couldn't work, he followed the Big Bang cosmology. Einstein wasn't religious but he was exactly atheist.
Another physicist, Edwin Hubble, American astronomer, not only supported Friedmann-Lemaître expanding universe model (before it was called the "Big Bang"), Hubble discovered the way to detect and measure galaxies moving away from each other, in 1929, known as Redshift. This was the earliest evidence for the Big Bang.
And guess what, Guy?
Hubble was an atheist (or agnostic).
I don't know about the religious status, American physicist, Robert Herman, but his colleagues, another American Ralph Alpher and Russian George Gamow, were atheists, and they were involved in the expanding universe model (Big Bang model), in 1948.
Gamow with some assistants with his former student, Alpher, wrote the paper on the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), which is major contribution to Lemaître's model.
Alpher and Herman were responsible for the hypothesis and predictions of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) with some assistance from Gamow. This radiation wasn't discovered until 1964, by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson.
Fred Hoyle is an idiot. His only major contribution to astrophysics was Stellar Nucleosynthesis. You are the one who making Hoyle's atheism a big deal.
Are you going to ignore Friedann, Hubble, Gamow and Alpher?
Four known atheists and four physicists involved in the Big Bang, but none of them made a big deal about being atheists, because their atheism had nothing to do with their works in physics.
