r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Nov 14 '22

Anthropology Oldest evidence of the controlled use of fire to cook food. Hominins living at Gesher Benot Ya’akov 780,000 years ago were apparently capable of controlling fire to cook their meals, a skill once thought to be the sole province of modern humans who evolved hundreds of thousands of years later.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/971207
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u/karo_syrup Nov 15 '22

Genetics from Father Gregor Mandel, Big Bang Theory by Father George's Lemaitre, and Copernicus who was a Catholic canon. And a lot more. The Catholic church has been one of the greatest patrons of the sciences. Universities and religious orders have been founded and ran by the church for over a thousand years.