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LISTENING WITH ONE HEART
THE EVOLVING UNIVERSE IN WHICHWE ARE CO-CREATORS
George V. Coyne, S.J.Le Moyne CollegeSyracuse, NY, USA
Chance or necessity: God?
• The Universe is Fertile Because
• It is old: 13.8 billion years
• It contains 10 thousand billion billion stars
From the Big Bang
Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Irregular Galaxy
EllipticalGalaxy
SpiralGalaxy
M31
We see our galaxy edge-on
Primary features: disk, bulge, halo, globular clusters
MW Sagittarius 2
HST View of Orion
Orion 2
Clouds and Fragments
Tyffid Nebula
Stars shine by making heavier elements
Making Heavy ElementsIn a ThermonuclearFurnace
Crab Neb
Veil Neb
Solar System
Our Earth
Self-Conscious Universe
A CALENDAR OF THE EVOLVING UNIVERSE[Suppose we make the 13.8 billion year old universe have the age of
one earth year; then]
1 January: The Big Bang
7 February: The Milky Way is born
14 August: The Earth is born
4 September: First life on the Earth
15 December: The Cambrian Explosion
25 December: The dinosaurs appear
30 December: Extinction of the dinosaurs
A CALENDAR OF THE EVOLVING UNIVERSE[Suppose we make the 13.8 billion year old universe have the age of
one earth year; then]
31 December:
at 7:00:00 pm: First hominids
at 11:58:00 pm: First humans
at 11:59:30 pm: Age of Agriculture
47 pm: The pyramids
58 pm: Jesus Christ is born
59 pm: Galileo is born
at 12 midnight: today
Brain Development
Tree – leaves/trunk
The “Bush” of Life From DNA Sequences (Mutations)
We, ANIMALS, are a Small Branch At the Top Right
Chance or necessity: God?
Is God anengineer?
Figure 1.9
Self-Conscious Universe
Figure 1.9
