I remember how we were constantly told at school that it was "indestructible and uncreated," "it has always existed and will continue to exist," and so on.
Only a couple of decades have passed, and now they are talking about...
1927 – Lemaître's article "Homogeneous Universe of Constant Mass and Increasing Radius, Explaining the Radial Velocities of Extragalactic Nebulae" was published. The proportionality constant between velocity and distance, obtained by Lemaître, was close to the one found by E. Hubble in 1929. Lemaître was the first to clearly state that the objects populating the expanding Universe, whose distribution and velocities should be the subject of cosmology, are not stars, but giant star systems, galaxies. Lemaître relied on Hubble's results, which he learned about while in the USA in 1926 at his presentation.
Seriously, possible errors in individual astronomical theories and even their incorrect understanding should not discredit it as a science. And faith... Well, yes, many things and in many places have to be accepted on faith. C'est la vie.
From my point of view, religion is distinguished not only by faith (which is present in many places, basically everywhere), but also by a cult. As philosophers actually say, yes ;)