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Turtle,

We don't demonize Lemaître's theory because he was a Catholic priest and his theory stunk of creationism (well, they did at the time, but we don't now). The pope was actually touting Lemaître's theory as proof that god made the cosmos and Lemaître had to tell him to shut up—that the big bang was science and had nothing at all to do with religion.

Now, I don't know if Charlie is religious or not nor what his motivation is for his ideas on a Hydrogen core. But, I do know that like Lemaître he has kept religion completely out of the conversation. He has only used science in his attempt to support his ideas and he has only expressed an interest in hearing scientific ideas in return. For that, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and discuss the science.

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