VIDEO: THE DANCE OF THE FERTILE UNIVERSE: ARE WE ALONE? - FATHER COYNE WITH DR. ROTHSCHILD

Pope's senior scientist visits Nasa and talk aliens. The chat is now available below titled: Are We Alone? The Dance of the Fertile Universe.


Excerpts from the video are broken down at the bottom of this page if you wish to view only specific portions of the video.

The following is the back story which led to the video above.

The Church's interest in the stars dates back to well before Galileo's time. Five hundred years ago, papal astronomers in charge of fixing Easter's date noticed that the Julian calendar was getting out of sync with the stars, and in 1582 they replaced it with the Gregorian. In 1891, long after the Church had accepted the heliocentric universe, Pope Leo XIII officially founded the Observatory so that "everyone might see clearly that the Church and her Pastors are not opposed to true and solid science."

Today, the Vatican Observatory Research Group boasts 13 professional astronomers and cosmologists, all of them Jesuits. The group specializes in fields like galaxy formation and, to quote from their latest annual report, "the dynamics of inflationary universes with positive spatial curvature."

With a title like astrobiologist, one has to assume that Rothschild is at least open to the idea of life on other planets. The agency has been in on the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life since the 1960s. More prosaicly Nasa's missions as a rule keep a look out for life - or at least the building blocks of life - while tearing around the solar system.

The Catholic Church, perhaps surprisingly, is also somewhat open to the idea of life on other planets, with the current head of the Vatican observatory, José Gabriel Funes, conceding the possibility of extra-terrestrial life just last May.
Biography for Lynn Rothschild

He told the Holy See's in-house rag: "It is possible, even if until now, we have no proof. But certainly in such a big universe this hypothesis cannot be excluded."

Of course, the Church's interest in aliens is as much about their relationship with God and sin. It may be that they are in full communion with the creator - having never nibbled any solar forbidden fruit.

Alternatively - and perhaps much more likely - they could be sinners, and therefore in need of redemption through the ministrations of the Church. Just like us, in fact. Assuming of course they don't all come and eat us first.

Chapters

01. Introduction

03 min25 sec

02. Father Coyne Opening: Fertility of the Universe

01 min54 sec

03. The Age of the Universe

04 min10 sec

04. The Number of Stars

04 min35 sec

05. The Birth and Death of Stars

02 min34 sec

06. We Are Born of Stardust: How Did We Come to Be?

03 min24 sec

07. The Gap Between Conditions for Life and Life in the Universe

04 min59 sec

08. Dr. Rothschild Opening: In the Beginning

01 min24 sec

09. The Scientific Revolution

03 min27 sec

10. What Do We Need for Life?

04 min26 sec

11. Laws to Organic Life

04 min28 sec

12. The Limits to Life

06 min17 sec

13. Why Are There Limits to Life?

01 min55 sec

14. Looking for Life

02 min19 sec

15. Hypothesizing the Origin of Life

03 min13 sec

16. Q1: Life in Black Stellar Clouds / Neutron Stars

01 min38 sec

17. Q2: Inability to Produce Life in a Lab from Nothing

01 min33 sec

18. Q3: Galileo Today

03 min10 sec

19. Q4: Skepticism in Science

02 min35 sec

20. Q5: What Existed Before the Big Bang?

-3 min-55 sec

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