God is in the cosmos, it seems. Here is a report of an interview with Dr. Guy Consolmagno, an American astrophysicist (scientist interested in star-stuff) who is an author, Vatican astronomer and curator of the Vatican's meteorite collection�. And a Jesuit.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/meteor-04b.html Selective quotation. (Read the whole story yourself.) � � the reason why the [Roman Catholic] Church supports astronomy goes back to, in sense it goes back to the reform of the calendar, back in 1582. [The Vatican] hired an astronomer to work out how to make the calendar work right. There's also a sense that the Church, in modern times, wants to show the world that it's not afraid of science, that it supports science, that it thinks science is a wonderful thing. Not only to reassure the scientists, but also to reassure the religious people science is a good thing. Don't listen to people who say you have to choose one or the other. And there's two things going on there. One is the sense that, if God made the universe, and he made it good, and he loved the universe so much that, as the Christians believe, he sent his only son, it's up to us to honor and respect and get to know the universe. I think it was Francis Bacon who said that God sets up the universe as a marvelous puzzle for us to get to know him by getting to know how he did things. By seeing how God created, we get a little sense of God's personality. And that means, among other things not going in with any preconceived notions. We can't impose our idea of how God did things. It's up to us to see how the universe actually does work. � -- Peter R. Ellis ------------------------------------------------------ - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm ------------------------------------------------------
