The heavens declare the glory of God

NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STSCI)

The heavens declare the glory of God: the firmament proclaims the works of his hands.  Day unto day pours forth speech; night unto night whispers knowledge. - Psalms 19:1-3




Without faith in a Creator God, one who looks at His universe and declares it Good, how can you justify the belief that this universe is worth studying; indeed, that the universe even makes enough sense to be able to be studied? - Guy Consolmagno (as in Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist).

Modern scholars reject the old idea the Catholic Church was nothing but an opponent of the sciences.  You would be considered almost beyond help, if you continue to argue that to a professional historian of science. - Thomas E. Woods

Significant updates in rational approaches to God have been achieved...in physics and cosmology. - Robert J. Spitzer




1 Corinthians 15:12-19




"Welcome aboard, your Holiness..."
 - Pope Benedict XVI Greets Shuttle, Station Crew (2011)

Crab Nebula - 11 Light Years Long

Fr. Barron on Atheism and Philosophy



God: Supreme Being or Imaginary Friend?

The Great Debate: Has Science Refuted Religion?

Cosmic Origins

To the edge of the universe: the Vatican Observatory welcomes Pope Francis

Resources

Education

• Adults
• Catholic Courses
• The Institute for Advanced Physics
• International Catholic University
• Kids
• The Institute for Advanced Physics - Books for Kids

"Too often God as creator is overlooked..." (Fr. Tito) in favor of Modern Atheism.

Authors and Speakers

• Barr, Stephen M. (Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware)
• EWTN Bookmark on Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
• Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
• Modern Physics, the Beginning and Creation
• Beale, Stephen (Freelance Writer and Former Evangelical Protestant)
• How Science is Finding Faith
• Consolmagno, Guy (PhD in Planetary Science)
• Astronomy God, and the Search for Elegance
• Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist
• The Heaven Proclaim: Astronomy and the Vatican
• Falk, Dan (Freelance Writer and Broadcaster) 
• The Glad Scientist: A Vatican astronomer explains why science and religion are a match made in heaven
• Feser, Edward (Associate Professor of Philosophy)
• The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism
• Fulwiler, Jennifer (Writer and Speaker, converted to Catholicism)

Atheist to Catholic: 11 Stories of Conversion

• Hahn, Scott (Professor of Theology and Scripture) and Wiker, Benjamin (Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture)
• Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins' Case Against God
• Horn, Trent (Staff Apologist for Catholic Answers)
• Answering Atheism: How to Make the Case for God with Logic and Charity
• Kreeft, Peter (Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and The King's College)
• Why I Am a Catholic: 7 Reasons
• Kurland, Bob (Retired Physicist)
• Top Down to Jesus - A Jewish Physicist's Conversion Story

• Nelson, Thomas (Publisher)
• The Heavens Proclaim His Glory: A spectacular View of Creation Through the Lens of the NASA Hubble Telescope
• Purcell, Brendan M. (Priest, Psychologist, Author, Teacher and Commentator)
• From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution by [Priest] Brendan M. Purcell
• Schönborn, Christopher (Archbishop of Vienna)
• Chance or Purpose?
• Book TV discussion of book Chance or Purpose?
• Spitzer, Robert (Priest, President of the Magis Center of Reason and Faith)
• New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy
• Scientific evidence points only toward a created universe, says Jesuit
• Scientific Evidence for God's Existence - "This is about the best time you coult be alive if you wanted to have evidence for God from physics..."
• Woods, Thomas (Senior Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute)
• How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization

Research

• Hubble
• Magis Center of Reason and Faith - Explaining the harmony among Faith, Physics and Philosophy 
• NASA
• Curiosity
• 7 Minutes of Terror: Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing
• NASA celebrates Curiosity's successful landing on Mars! 
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• NASA Science
• Redbull Stratos
• Supersonic Freefall - Red Bull Stratos CGI
• Test of Faith
• Vatican Observatory
• Voyager 1 at the Final Frontier
• Multimedia Video / Movies

• Cosmic Origins: The Scientific Evidence for Creation
• Google has created, an interactive, animated, three-dimensional map of the Milky Way galaxy -- focusing on the known 100,000 stars nearest to our planet.

• The Galileo Case (T. Woods)
• Catholic Dads HQ: YouTube Channel / Science and Faith
• Religion and Violence by Fr. Robert Barron
• Seven Myths about the Catholic Church & Science - Benjamin Wiker (Sample)

Videos

• Michael Behe & Daniel Kuebler - Science and Faith Conference [Lecture] (Franciscan University of Steubenville)

Christ is the centre of creation, Christ is the centre of his people and Christ is the centre of history. - Pope Francis 

What Contemporary Physics & Philosophy Tell Us About Nature & God - Fr. Robert J. Spitzer, Ph.D. & Prof. Bruce Gordon, Ph.D.(Discovery Institute)

Published Originally: 05.03.12
Updated: 08.02.2014; 01.22.2015