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The Poetry of Science 
If science and religion cannot coexist,
Then the Big Bang presents quite an ironic twist.
Discovered not by an atheistic beast,
But by Georges Lemaître, a Jesuit Priest.
Georges Lemaître (Photo Credit: Maksim)
"this is sixth form poetry, not Keats or Yeats"
If science and religion cannot coexist,
Then the Big Bang presents quite an ironic twist.
Discovered not by an atheistic beast,
But by Georges Lemaître, a Jesuit Priest.
Georges Lemaître (Photo Credit: Maksim)
Polish poet Juliusz Słowacki [1809-1849] wrote between 1843/4-1846? a mystical prose poem entitled “Genesis from the Spirit” published in 1871. If we reduce the mystical parts of the poem to a minimum and leave only the purely « objective » parts, we arrive at his poetic description of the “Big Bang” :
“…The Spirit… turned one point… of invisible space into a flash of Magnetic-Attractive Forces. And these turned into electric and lightning bolds – And they warmed up in the Spirit… You, Lord, forced him… to flash with destructive fire… You turned the Spirit… into a ball of fire and hung him on the abysses… And here… a circle spirits… he grabbed one handful of globes and swirled them around like a fiery rainbow… “
This is how poetic intuition could anticipate the scientific discoveries…
(see :
https://www.salon24.pl/u/edalward/1334289,big-bang-according-to-the-19th-century-polish-poet-j-slowacki )
Thanks Edward, this is a great example! 🙂