Here is a list of Catholic priests, brothers, bishops, abbots, cardinals, popes (and, in at least four cases, saints) who have made major contributions to science.

One of the most cherished myths to which fundamentalist atheists cling is the misguided and downright stupid idea that the Catholic Church and Catholics are somehow anti-science. Nothing could be further from the truth (which is par for the course for fundamentalist atheists.) In fact, Jesuit priests and brothers have contributed so much to the study of earthquakes, the study of seismology is often referred to as "the Jesuit science."

Of course, like everything else fundamentalist atheist say, it's done without the benefit of reading actual books. Instead, their "feelings" are the result of "truthiness." The fastest way to make a fundamentalist atheist angry is to ask her from whence do her ideas come. Don’t worry, even if she insists (i.e., lies) about having read a book from which they extracted their "knowledge," she'll be suddenly struck by a wave of forgetfulness as to the book's title and author. But, if someone can remember neither a book's title and author, the claims of "pristine" memory of what they supposedly read in the book can easily be ignored.

The total list of Catholic priest/scientists and mathematicians would be impossible to compile but this isn't a problem as most atheists can't name three Catholic scientists. In an effort to disrupt and destroy atheist "truthiness," I offer here a list of some Catholic clerics, including priests, brothers, bishops, abbots, cardinals, popes and, in at least four cases, saints, who have made major contributions to science. These men are specifically cleric-scientists and mathematicians and not lay Catholic scientists such as Kenneth R. Miller, Louis Pasteur and Blaise Pascal. For those interested in learning more about these men, the following links attached to their names are all to Wikipedia articles.

And thus, to fundamentalist atheists, I say what we learned in Latin class, "Exsorbebo. Perdatis."

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