https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/h-l-mencken-the-first-new-atheist/

"The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mothers’ milk."

Lemaitre was not the sole discoverer of the Big Bang any more than Newton the sole inventor of differential and integral calculus.

The discovery of the expanding universe was inevitable given the progress in astronomical telescopes and spectral analyser equipment in the 1920s. Sometimes it is just the time for something to happen in science or technology. All the underpinnings are already in place for one or more people to connect the dots and synthesis an idea or an invention.

An universe warped around itself is a logical outcome of General Relativity, but Einstein had trouble with the idea of a dynamic universe.