From: steve (steve365@btinternet.com)
Date: Wed Jan 16 2002 - 11:38:32 MST
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From: "Amara Graps" <Amara.Graps@mpi-hd.mpg.de>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 2:26 PM
Subject: G. Coyne, priest (jesuit), astronomer
>
> I feel compelled to point a few things about this group of astronomers.
>
> steve wrote:
> > G. Coyne, priest (jesuit), astronomer, director of the Vatican
Observatories
> > ...I always have wondered how monotheistic religions
> > (and Christianity and Islam in particular) would deal with the
> > discovery/confirmation of the existence of ETs. Steve Davies
>
> They might say: "We get to know the creator by what he has created."
>
> This from the most famous "priest-astronomer": Guy Consolmagno
>
> http://www.catholic-doc.org/miscellany/1999/0499astrono.HTM
> "Vatican astronomer shows his faith in science"
>
> Please google on "Consolmagno Vatican Observatory", and you'll turn up
> a few hundred pages about this interesting person.
>
> Spike Jones wrote:
> >Just such a question was dealt with by the theologians of the Seventh
> >Day Adventists. They do not like to be taken by surprise by
> >developments in science, and thence be forced into hokey ad hoc
> >explanations. They much prefer astutely anticipating such developments
> >and offer carefully crafted hokey explanations.
>
> I suggest that you take a look at this list of research topics on
> which the Jesuit astronomers are working. They are doing first-rate
> astronomy research.
>
> http://clavius.as.arizona.edu/vo/research.html
>
> Amara
>
Thanks for the links Amara. It does not surprise me that Jesuits are doing
work of this kind. From my own experience and what I read, SJs are very,
very smart people. Steve Davies
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