New Astrophysical Discoveries Leave Little to No Room for Atheism, Expert Says [EWTN]

[EWTN_News]

Denver, Colo., Sep 30, 2009 (CNA).- Contemporary astrophysics hold the scientific key to prove the existence of God, but unfortunately very few know the scientific facts, said Fr. Robert J. Spitzer, S.J, PhD, during a conference delivered on Sunday at the John Paul II Center for the New Evangelization in Denver, Colorado.

The Honolulu-born Jesuit is the past president of Gonzaga University and is also well-known philosopher and physicist who is involved in bringing science and theology together.

Fr. Spitzer is currently engaged in an ambitious project to explain the metaphysical consequences of the latest astrophysical discoveries, mainly, the existence of a Creator.

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New astrophysical discoveries leave little to no room for Atheism, expert says

Denver, Colo., Sep 30, 2009 / 03:35 pm (CNA).- Contemporary astrophysics hold the scientific key to prove the existence of God, but unfortunately very few know the scientific facts, said Fr. Robert J. Spitzer, S.J, PhD, during a conference delivered on Sunday at the John Paul II Center for the New Evangelization in Denver, Colorado.
The Honolulu-born Jesuit is the past president of Gonzaga University and is also well-known philosopher and physicist who is involved in bringing science and theology together.
Fr. Spitzer is currently engaged in an ambitious project to explain the metaphysical consequences of the latest astrophysical discoveries, mainly, the existence of a Creator.
The conference in Denver was sponsored by John and Carol Saeman as well as the California Catholic philanthropist Timothy Busch.
“The arguments of Fr. Spitzer are addressed to every honest human being who is trying to reach to God through science,” said Mr. Busch, during the introduction.
“Atheism and pop culture have had a significant impact on Theism and it has to be confronted especially because Secularism and the negation of God are becoming pervasive,” began the 57 year-old priest.
“Theism, in fact, can be better explained by contemporary science and modern philosophy better than ever before, but particularly interesting is what is happening in the field of astrophysics … to the point that I can’t imagine why agnosticism and Atheism are still popular,” Fr. Spitzer said.
“That is why we need contemporary ‘translators’ that are capable of bringing today’s science to regular people, and especially, to bring the astrophysical response to atheism,” he added.

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The fervor of those who harness their passions to the prospects of there being a definitive scientific “epiphany” which somehow provides an absolute mathmatical certainty as to the existence of a creator…that fervor should find temperance in the reading of Pensees by Blaise Pascal.
His “epiphany” was that while the mind finds its limits in the pursuit of empirical evidence
regarding the existence of God, the heart, through childlike faith, proceeds unimpeded into the infinite…where Christ greets it with peace. Blessed are those who believe without seeing.

 

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No home in the galactic outer suburbs

TALK about location, location, location. If the sun had been born near the edge of the galaxy, chances are neither the Earth nor life would have arisen. That’s the implication of the first search for planet-forming discs on the Milky Way’s outskirts.
The stars on the fringes of our galaxy have little oxygen, silicon or iron - chief ingredients of Earth-like planets - so astronomers have long doubted that life could exist there. Now they have solid evidence for their pessimism. Chikako Yasui and Naoto Kobayashi at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues observed two extremely young star clusters in Cassiopeia 62,000 light years from the Milky Way’s centre - over twice as far out as the sun - in a cloud of gas and dust named Digel Cloud 2.

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