3. TIL that the first woman in the USA to ever get a PhD in Computer Science was a ...

TIL that the first woman in the USA to ever get a PhD in Computer Science was a nun.

So yes, indeed...

When it comes to Science/technological education, it's probably best not to confuse the Catholic Church, with a more southern-USA style of Christian fundamentalism.

Both of these groups are worlds (or should I say, Universes) apart, when it comes to accepting scientific evidence and factual-theories.

The Catholic Church has some series other issues and problems right now... and I think we all know what they are... but science is actually NOT one of those problematic-issue for Catholics.

For example... it was actually a Catholic priest who is actually the main originator, and "father" of the big bang theory, as the true point of origin of our Universe, 14 billion years ago.

That was his vocation in the church: the quest for truth/knowledge in the field of the physics.

He probably viewed the study the physics as simply the study of God's creation: the Universe itself.

ALSO...

The Jesuit order in the Catholic Church has a primary mandate of advanced education, research, with a strong focus on science at the Master's and PhD levels.

So many priests in the Jesuit have taken on the vocation of scientific research and education, all the way to the PhD level.

Pope Francis recently reiterated this... and the media picked upon on it as those it was a new shocking development...

But this acceptance of science, has actually been the status-quo of the Catholic Church for many, many, decades, and even earlier, especially with Catholic orders such as the Jesuits.

For example: in 1950 Pope Pius said that there was no fundamental conflict between Christianity and the theory of evolution... etc...

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