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Originally Posted by PhilnEdee
Very cool.......the Vatican says the Hubble doesn't exist, that its all made up gov't propoganda...same as they tried to squash the story about the 3 million year old fossil of the child they found...
We'll miss you Pluto!
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The Vatican operates a telescope on one of the highest peaks in Arizona and it is utilized by a group of Jesuit priests/scientists, Father Jose Funes being one of them.
Funes, an astronomer and a Jesuit priest, is one of a dozen scientists, most of them Jesuits, associated with the Vatican Observatory Research Group that operate the Arizona telescope and engages in advanced astrophysics, cosmology and galactic and extragalactic research.
The Catholic Church engages in scientific research and these Jesuit scientists continue to show that the gap between science and religion can be bridged and that there need not be any conflict. These priests however have shared the view of many that creationism or ID has no place in a science classroom. Father Funes states:“When I teach at the University of Arizona, I tell students, I am a priest, a Jesuit, but my class is a science class ... and Science is about natural, not supernatural causes.”
Funes is mapping the formation and evolution of galaxies within 100 million light years of Earth. By the time the project is completed, he will have observed about 400 galaxies.
The telescope on Mt. Graham, a 10,700-foot peak, was inaugurated in September 1993. It was the first telescope in the world to use a mirror spun from a ceramic mold, a technique pioneered at the University of Arizona. A few yards away, the university has its own much larger double telescope with two giant mirrors that act like binoculars that can pull in images sharp enough to read a newspaper 5 miles away.
Cool video. :)