THE DANCE OF THE FERTILE UNIVERSE: CHANCE AND DESTINY EMBRACE
30 March 2006

 The first annual Reverend George V. Coyne, S.J. Lecture in Astronomy and Astrophysics to be presented by Father Coyne on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. in Monaghan Ballroom.

Abstract

The universe we live in is full of a vast variety of objects: gas, galaxies, frogs, us. What is the best scientific understanding of how they came to be? Are they related to one another? If we order them from the simplest: quarks, protons, to the most complex: the human brain, is there a unified explanation of their coming to be. A tentative answer is found in their emergence as chance and destiny danced away in a fertile expanding universe. Does God have something to do with it?