Guy Consolmagno, SJ and Paul Mueller, SJ
Do you think that both science and faith should be taken seriously, but you struggle with how to hold science and faith together, with integrity? Do you find yourself tending to keep science and faith isolated from each other, in separate, watertight compartments, but you wish that science and faith didn't have to "take turns" in your life? Then this book is for you. Read on!
This is another book I bought for 25 cents from the library and it was worth far more than that. By the title, I thought this was going to be a kind of light-hearted romp through a bunch of silly questions, and it certainly has a sense of humor, but it functions mostly as an excellent discussion about how faith and science do not need to be in competition with each other. I gained a helpful perspective by reading this book, and would be happy to let anyone borrow it.
First line: Would you baptize an extraterrestrial is one of the questions people ask us all the time here at the Vatican Observatory...along with questions about the Star of Bethlehem, the beginning and end of the universe, Galileo, Pluto, black holes, killer asteroids, and all the other topics astronomers always get asked about.
Page 56, Line 5: When you think that the "fundamentals" are all that's important, or that knowing the "fundamentals" is enough by itself, it's like seeing only the dots of paint in Seurat's painting.
Last line: I expect that someday we'll learn that even in this cosmos, we are not alone.
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