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Would you baptize an extraterrestrial? : and other questions from the astronomers' inbox at the Vatican Observatory / Brother Guy Consolmagno and Father Paul Mueller.

by Consolmagno, Guy, 1952-

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Specola vaticana.

Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Miscellanea.

Bible and science -- Miscellanea.

Religion and science -- Miscellanea.

Astronomers -- Vatican City -- Anecdotes.

9780804136952 (hc.)

0804136955 (hc.)

x, 293 pages ; 25 cm.

The dialog begins -- Day 1: Biblical genesis or scientific Big Bang? -- Day 2: What happened to poor Pluto? -- Day 3: What really happened to Galileo? -- Day 4: What was the star of Bethlehem? -- Day 5: What's going to happen when the world ends? -- Day 6: Would you baptize an extraterrestrial? -- Day 7: Acknowledgments.

Brother Guy Consolmagno and Father Paul Mueller are scientists at Specola Vaticana, the Vatican Observatory in Vatican City, the official astronomical research institute of the Catholic Church. In this book they answer a variety of questions on religion and science: How do you reconcile the The Big Bang with Genesis? Was the Star of Bethlehem just a pious religious story or an actual description of astronomical events? What really went down between Galileo and the Catholic Church? Will the Universe come to an end? And could you baptize an extraterrestrial? Guy Consolmagno is the author of Brother astronomer: adventures of a Vatican scientist.

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