James G. Acker Religion & cosmology article Organization: NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD USA From:
email@example.com (James G. Acker) Interesting article from "New
Scientist" 27 Feb 1993, page 10: "Cosmologists explore links
with religion" (Roger Lewin) It was just a year ago that a team
of astrophysicists announced the detection of "ripples" in
cosmic background radiation, a faint and distant impression of
galactic order that emerged from the Big Bang, 15 billion years
ago. George Smoot, the team leader based at Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory, California, captured headlines worldwide when he
said, "If you're religious, it's like seeing God." Since then
the results have been confirmed by astronomers at Princeton
University and the Mass. Inst. of Technology; but cosmologists
are still worrying about God. Smoot was one of the star
attractions at the AAAS (American Association for the
Advancement of Science). He expressed wonder at human beings'
"audacity to construct a theory of The inclusion of