Guy Consolmagno

thumb Guy Consolmagno (born September 19, 1952), is an American astronomer, physicist, Jesuit, director of the Vatican Observatory, and co-author of several books on astronomy for a general audience. Quotes Church officials in the past may have looked with great suspicion on the writings of, say, Teilhard de Chardin; but this same Church did, after all, produce a Teilhard. Even earlier, John Henry Newman was made a cardinal notwithstanding his liberal views. Prominent theologians in every era, going back to the most ancient Church fathers, argued cogently and consistently against a literalist interpretation of scripture. On the other hand, I'm sure you could find closet creationists in the Catholic Church today. 10.1038/46153 How the Church moves with the times 1999 Consolmagno Guy Nature 402 6759 230 1999Natur.402Q.230C 205049818 https://www.nature.com/articles/46153 Once an idea gets turned into a story, people pay attention long enough to listen. And they'll remember it. The images from Dante are far more vivid than the arguments of Aquinas. 10.5840/chesterton2005313/434 Across the Universe 2005 The Chesterton Review 31 3 279–280 Even an atheist has to believe that the concept, at least, of "God" does exist, whether or not that concept is true or useful or the best way to approach things. https://books.google.com/books?id=s276jyAQ5hcC&pg=PA7 God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion 7 9780787994662 Consolmagno Guy 2008 Something like 10000 meteorites hit Earth a year. Three-quarters land in the ocean. Given how long they last, and how fast they come down, you might expect to see a meteorite roughly every two square kilometers. But in fact, you don't. They're completely lost. Impey, Chris https://www.google.com/books?id=b0PitqEu5oQC&pg=PA224 224 9781139490634 Talking about Life: Conversations on Astrobiology 19 August 2010 Cambridge University Press Science doesn't stop when it comes up with a nice answer. It looks for more data. It comes up with new ideas. It's willing to admit it's wrong. From MIT to Specola Vaticana: Guy Consolmagno at TEDxViadellaConcialiazione April 24, 2013 TEDx Talks, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmU2gDbP_Tk (quote at 6:38 of 17:52) Science books go out of date. We throw the old one away when a newer one comes out, when we have new theories. But we don't throw away our old data; we merely interpret them differently. New theories try to account for old data (and new data) in new ways. Consolmagno, Guy Mueller, Paul https://www.google.com/books?id=lf5vDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16 9780804136952 Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?: And Other Questions from the Astronomers' In-Box at the Vatican Observatory 16 2014 Image External links Category:Catholics from the United States Category:Jesuits Category:Astronomers from the United States Category:Physicists from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:1952 births Category:Living people Category:People from Detroit Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni