From: Amara Graps (Amara.Graps@mpi-hd.mpg.de)
Date: Wed Jan 16 2002 - 07:26:53 MST
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
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