When Science Goes Wrong — And Why We Love It!
Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ
Tuesday, March 19
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Lecture description
When we think that following science is a sure way to get to all the right answers, we misunderstand the nature and history of science. We can only get closer to the truth by recognizing where and how we have gone wrong. Even Galileo’s revolution in science included some truly bizarre ideas of what the Earth looked like and how (and why) it was situated in the heavens. What can this tell us as we grapple today with dark matter and dark energy ... and how we understand our search for God, who is Truth itself?
About Br. Guy
Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ is the Director of the Vatican Observatory. A native of Detroit, Mich., he earned bachelor's and master's degrees from MIT, and a Ph.D. in planetary science from the University of Arizona. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard and MIT, served in the US Peace Corps (Kenya), and taught university physics at Lafayette College before entering the Jesuits in 1989. At the Vatican Observatory since 1993, Pope Francis appointed Dr. Consolmagno as director of the Vatican Observatory in 2015.