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Do the Findings of Astronomy Strengthen or

Challenge Our Faith?

• What are some of the possible areas of conflict?

• What are some of the findings of Astronomy that you find most troubling?

Lets look at ….

• From Dust...

• To Ashes

• To Worlds Without End!

• From the Ends of Time to the Ends of Space

• To the Moment of Creation

Where do Stars Come From?We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well, that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course it could be done. We used to watch the stars that fell, too, and see them streak down. Jim allowed they'd got spoiled and was hove out of the nest.

Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twainlink…

From Dust

What is a Star?

• The Sun – our closest star (courtesy of They Might be Giants)

• Visit some Sun links:

To Ashes…

You and I are Star Stuff!

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars,

Walt Whitman 1855, Leaves of Grass

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To Worlds Without End!

From the Ends of Time to the Ends of Space

The expanding universe

To the Moment of Creation

It depends on how you view the relationship between Faith and

Science

• Conflict?

• Dialogue?

Astronomy can describe physical processes in the universe but cannot tell us

about ultimate meanings or purposes or even why is there a universe in the first

place!

In fact …

“Science can only operate from a more basic set of beliefs about the nature of the world or cosmos.

…When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?

You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings

and crowned him with glory and honor. …

Psalm 8