Jesuit Astronomers

Driving home from Norman last night, I listened to Speaking of Faith’s Krista Tippett’s interview with George Coyne and Guy Consolmagno, Jesuit Astronomers, called “Asteroids, Stars, and the Love of God.” The broadcast version of the interview is a funny, fascinating discussion with two serious scientists who are men of faith.  This is the uncut/unedited MP3 version of the interview. The conversation touches on a variety of topics including history of science, what it means to be a christian scientist, and much more. George & Guy tell about tells how they got their beginning in science. They talk about a couple of teachers that inspired them. I particularly enjoyed this section of the interview. Here’s the main page with various other links.  And, here’s a Twitterscript  page, a collection of quotes from the interview that they have paired with a video of Br. Consolmagno appearing on The Colbert Report. I started to pull a few quotes from the interview to post here, but then I decided against it because you really need to get the context of the discussion itself and its ebb and flow.