Interview with Brother Guy Consolmagno

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Interview with Brother Guy Consolmagno

Postby David Entwistle » Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:44 pm

Hi,

There's a very nice interview with Brother Guy Consolmagno on youtube. Including recollections of time spent as part of the ANSMET expedition and a look at part of the Vatican's meteorite collection.

‘You just grab it and if it’s not ice, you put it into your pocket. It’s a meteorite!’ Of course, you are on Antarctica, 2000 metre above sea level, with five scientists crammed in a tent without running water or heating at night. GUY CONSOMAGNO sJ is really enthusiastic about his icy trip and his flagship: the Vatican collection of meteorites: a real moonstone, a present from Neil Armstrong – the first man on the moon – to the pope, the ‘Nakhla’, the Mars meteorite that fell on a dog in Egypt, the Peekskill that fell on the boot of a Chevy in the US, the Chassigny… In the interview you’ll hear his answer to returning questions about science and religion and why the Galileo case didn’t have anything to do with it. About the 3 convictions that are indispensable to a scientist, about creationism and why Stephen Hawking, renowned atheist, is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
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