Joseph Silk
English-born astronomer and the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford.
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The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored.
The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constiture part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.
Nowadays, cosmology seems rather unexciting.
Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.
Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.
One can always find inflationary models to explain whatever phenomenon is represented by the flavour of the month.
Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.
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