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The Unfinished Cosmos: Creation, God, and Hawking’s Grand Design

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Video 1 hour talk, with 45 minutes more of Q&A Level: all audiences Br. Guy Consolmagno of the Vatican Observatory delivered a lecture on The Unfinished Cosmos: Creation, God, and Hawking’s Grand Design at the University of Illinois on March 7th, 2013. The event was hosted by the St. John’s Catholic Newman Center at the University of Illinois. An extensive Q&A followed with Greg Moorehouse; the sound in that part is not particularly clear, unfortunately. The main point of the lecture is that Creation from Nothing is different from the Big Bang, and different from what Hawking was talking about.    

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Posted in Personal reflections, Science, Religion & Society | Tagged Br. Guy Consolmagno

The Galileo Affair: Context and Controversy

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Video 1 hour 20 minutes (includes 15 minutes Q&A) Level: all audiences Br. Guy Consolmagno, S. J., an astronomer with the Vatican Observatory, delivered “The Galileo Affair: Context and Controversy” in the University at Albany Lecture Center. on November 19, 2014. through the sponsorship of the associated Departments of Physics and Philosophy and College of Arts & Sciences at the University at Albany, State University of New York.  

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Posted in Bellarmine and the Church, Galileo | Tagged Br. Guy Consolmagno

Talk: God’s Mechanics: the Religious Life of Techies

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Video One hour plus Q&A Level: all audiences How does religion work in a society shaped by science and technology? How do scientists and engineers practice their religions? How in particular does a Jesuit brother, and an MIT graduate with a PhD in planetary science, make sense of his Catholicism? In this 2009 talk, “God’s Mechanics,” based on his book of the same name, Br. Guy Consolmagno examines the personal religious life and theology of scientists and engineers — “Techies” — based on conversations with Techies in California’s Silicon Valley and a first-person confession from a Jesuit scientist and astronomer at the Vatican Observatory. This lecture is part of the IHMC lecture series.  The IHMC is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida University System  

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Posted in Science, Religion & Society, Sociology | Tagged Br. Guy Consolmagno

Meaning: Exploring the Big Questions of the Cosmos with a Vatican Scientist

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Videos series 12 twenty five minute programs, approx. 6 hours total Level: all audiences A series of lectures by Br. Guy Consolmagno, Director of the Vatican Observatory.  From the publisher, Now You Know Media: Explore the big questions of science and religion with a Jesuit astronomer. While science and religion have often been seen as contradictory forces, in reality they complement each other. Indeed, Catholics have often been at the forefront of scientific discovery; the Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel innovated the study of genetics, and the Jesuit Georges Lemaître first proposed the Big Bang Theory. More recently, Pope Francis issued Laudato Si, an encyclical that addresses global warming. Now, you can join a leading Catholic scientist in examining the most vital questions about the universe. Your guide, Br. Guy Consolmagno, S.J., an astronomer and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, deals with big things—stars, galaxies, and unfathomable distances—but that’s not the kind of “bigness” that you will explore here. Instead, … Continue reading →

Posted in Relationship, Science, Theology & Philosophy | Tagged Br. Guy Consolmagno, Lemaitre, Mendel, Pope Francis

What is Life?

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One hour video of opening talk at the 2015 University of Arizona annual science lecture series. Throughout history, our definition of ‘life’ reflects our assumptions about how the Universe works – and why we ask the question. The ways different human cultures, ancient and current, have talked about life provide some sense of how we have defined life, and illustrate the aspects of life that fascinate us. Many cultures used life as an analog to explain the movement of winds and currents, or the motions of the planets. Today we use those mechanical systems as analogs for life. Ultimately, we may not really know what life is until we have discovered more than one independent example of it on places other than Earth – we need many diverse examples before we can generalize. But without a definition of what we’re looking for, and why we’re looking, we may have a hard time recognizing life when we find it.

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Posted in Extraterrestrial Life, Life in the Universe, What Is Life? | Tagged Biology, Br. Guy Consolmagno, Extraterrestrial Life, Life, Science

Talking science and God with Science Magazine

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This link to an interview with Br. Guy Consolmagno explores some of the assumptions behind the question of baptism and Ets.

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Posted in Church and Science Today, Extraterrestrial Life, FAQs, Intelligence, Life in the Universe, Personal accounts, Personal reflections, Science, Religion & Society, Science, Theology & Philosophy, Vatican Observatory, Would You Baptize ET? | Tagged Br. Guy Consolmagno, Lemaitre

Heaven or Heat Death?

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Science tells us that the universe will inevitably end Ð billions of years from now Ð in a cold nothingness. What is the science behind this prospect, and its implications for our belief in eternal life?

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Posted in Cosmology, End Times | Tagged Br. Guy Consolmagno, Lemaitre

Dark Matter and Dark Energy

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Video 11 minutes Level: all audiences What is Dark Energy? What is Dark Matter? Hear what Br. Guy Consolmagno (of the Vatican Observatory) and Dr. Brenda Frye (of The University of Arizona) have to say in this video from the Vatican Observatory Foundation. Click here for other videos from the Vatican Observatory Foundation.  

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Posted in Cosmology, Modern Physics | Tagged Br. Guy Consolmagno, Dark Energy, Dark Matter

God and Science, Under the Stars (Interview with Br. Consolmagno)

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Article 1500 words Level: all audiences A CBC interview with Br. Guy Consolmagno of the Vatican Observatory.  From the CBC: Q & A with Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno Guy Consolmagno is an astronomer and planetary scientist with degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona. He is also a Jesuit Brother, dividing his time between the Vatican observatory in Arizona and Castel Gandolfo, Italy, where he is curator of the Vatican meteorite collection — one of the largest in the world. Brother Consolmagno is steeped in scientific theory, but uses God to account for what can’t be accounted for through science, as a glue that holds together the equations of the universe. Brother Consolmagno is steeped in scientific theory, but uses God to account for what can’t be accounted for through science, as a glue that holds together the equations of the universe. He is also the author of God’s Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal reflections, Science, Religion & Society | Tagged Br. Guy Consolmagno, Interview, Transcript

Discarded Worlds: Astronomical Ideas that Were Almost Correct

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Video 1 hours Level: all audiences This is a video from IHMC (IHMC is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida University System) of a 2012 talk by Br. Guy Consolmagno, S. J., of the Vatican Observatory. The following description is from IHMC: Astronomy is more than just observing; it’s making sense of those observations. A good theorist needs a good imagination…and no fear of being wrong. Aryabaha in ancient India and Ptolemy in ancient Rome, the medieval bishops Oresme and Cusa, the 19th century astronomers Schiaparelli and Pickering, all rose to the challenge; and they were all almost correct. Which is to say, they were wrong… sometimes hilariously, sometimes heartbreakingly so. What lessons can we take from these discarded images?  

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Posted in Church and Science Today, Galileo | Tagged Br. Guy Consolmagno, Copernicus, Geocentric, Lecture, Schiaparelli

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