God and the Astronomers

Last updated on: May 8, 2016 at 5:44 am by Dan Peterson

An eruption from the Sun's corona — On 31 August 2012, a long filament of solar material erupts from the Sun at 900 miles per second. (NASA Space Flight Center, Solar Dynamics Observatory, public domain)

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries. (Robert Jastrow [d. 2008], NASA astronomer, physicist, and cosmologist, from his book God and the Astronomers, commenting about current trends in cosmological theory)

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