Thank you very much for that kind introduction and thank you of course for having me here.

So I first ran, like I got to know the Dominicans when I was at University of Virginia very briefly

and fell in love with the order. So when the Mystic Institute started and they asked me to be involved with them,

I was, of course, thrilled at the B-Sel.

So what I want to talk to you about tonight, that I gave this rather sort of vague title of

Catholicism and modern astronomy, at this meet, it was a bit vague, to be myself space to talk about several different aspects

of astronomy and Catholicism. And in particular, I want to touch rather quickly on three

quite different topics, but topics that I find that are most often asked about by students.

So one is modern cosmology and creation. So how do we think as

Catholics, how do we think about cosmology, does it mean anything, is it a problem

in any way for how we approach creation and our biblical understanding of God as original things.

The second topic is another discovery in astronomy, which is that of exoplanets.

And that, of course, leads to speculation on whether there is someone there on those exoplanets.

So I want to talk about that in relation a little bit continuing

more than thinking about creation, but maybe more specifically creation of human beings

and salvation through the incarnation. And then the third topic I want to change from sort of the

objective from scientific discoveries to talk to you about the practice of astronomy.

What does it mean to be a Catholic astronomer or astrophysicist?

And you could put any, I think, scientists, replace that.

And how, is there a difference between the Catholic viewing astrophysics is

there something we should really think about when we see our job as a vocation but let's

start with the first topic so big time cosmology and creation just to remind ourselves or maybe find out for the first time what scientists mean

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