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Would you baptize an extraterrestrial?, ...and other questions from the astronomer's inbox at the Vatican Observatory, Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ and Father Paul Mueller, SJ

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Would you baptize an extraterrestrial?, ...and other questions from the astronomer's inbox at the Vatican Observatory, Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ and Father Paul Mueller, SJ

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eng

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non fiction

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Would you baptize an extraterrestrial?

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1041970326

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Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ and Father Paul Mueller, SJ

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...and other questions from the astronomer's inbox at the Vatican Observatory

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RELIGION & SCIENCE. Witty and thought provoking, two Vatican astronomers shed provocative light on some of the strange places where religion and science meet. Brother Guy Consolmagno and Father Paul Mueller hear questions like that all the time. They're scientists at the Vatican Observatory, the official astronomical research institute of the Catholic Church. In Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? they explore a variety of questions at the crossroads of faith and reason: 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 - and why do the effects of that confrontation still reverberate to this day? Will the Universe come to an end? And. could you really baptize an extraterrestrial?

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