Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, a planetary scientist who has studied meteorites and asteroids as an astronomer and the new President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, has no doubt that life exists elsewhere in the universe and that when humanity discovers it, the news will come as no big surprise. He suggested that the likely discovery - whether next month or a millennium from now - will be received much the way that news of planets orbiting far off stars has filtered in since the 1990s. Br Consolmagno, who had an asteroid named after him in 2000 - 4597 Consolmagno - has long been a promoter of better understanding across what is often portrayed as the science-religion divide. He said that there is no conflict between his faith and his scientific life. The longtime Vatican astronomer addresses the same question and a series of others that cross the threshold between science and religion in a new book, Would you Baptize an Extraterrestrial?...and Other strange Questions From the Inbox at the Vatican Observatory set to be published in October. Co-written by Jesuit Fr Paul Mueller, another Vatican astronomer, the book uses a series of easy-to-read conversations between the two in an effort to explain how the Church supports science and provide insight into how religion works. Not all is as black and white as people imagine, and theres no conflict between science and religion, Bro Consolmagno said.
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 01:30:22 +0000
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