Source: AURA/NOAO/NSF and The Hand of God This week we have been looking at the beauty of the stars and galaxies of our vast universe, brought to us through the efforts of modern astronomy. However, while the vastness of the universe can certainly be a source of wonder and amazement, it can also raise…

Atlas Image courtesy of 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF. Christopher J. Corbally holds a doctorate in astronomy from the University of Toronto and is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a member of the American Astronomical Society.  He is also a Jesuit priest. Corbally is vice director of the Vatican Observatory Research Group, which has its observatory…

The image above, provided by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, shows 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula.  The nebula is located about 166,000 light years away from us.  At its center (upper right in the picture) is a starburst region consisting of hundreds of the brightest, most active, and most massive stars in the…

Source: Library of Congress Each Monday, “Science and the Sacred” features an essay from one of the BioLogos leaders: Francis Collins, Karl Giberson and Darrel Falk. Today’s was written by Dr. Francis Collins. I recently read some published sermons by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. The depth and breadth of his eloquent defense of…

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