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Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory and known as “the pope’s astronomer,” was the featured speaker at the 2017 Barnes Science and Faith Symposium: Does Science Need God? These were dynamic and engaging conversations with a global expert in science and faith. Scroll down to view the four lectures.
On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the reformation, Brother Guy Consolmagno, S.J., Director of the Vatican Observatory and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, addressed how our religious assumptions inform the way we do science, from the nature of the questions we ask to the kinds of answers that satisfy our questions.
Keynote speaker, Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ Does Science Need God?
Speaker Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ is Director of the Vatican Observatory and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation since 1993.
The author of more than 200 scientific publications and several books including Turn Left at Orion (with Dan Davis) and Would you Baptize an Extraterrestrial? (with Fr. Paul Mueller, SJ).
Has appeared on BBC Radio 4, in numerous documentaries, and on The Colbert Report.
Received the Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences for excellence in public communication in planetary sciences.
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