His take on religion is puerile, as is that of religious literalists and those whose cosmic-scientific vision eliminates the possibility of surprise or the advent of the unknown or least expected.
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Why would someone trust cosmic forces over scientific polling?
He wrote late in life that a "cosmic religious feeling" underlay his scientific work.
The scientific aspects of Cosmic Voyage were supervised by none other than Soviet rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who created 30 technical drawings of the spacecraft for the film.
THE scientific exploration of cosmic birth "clarifies somewhat those first mysterious moments," said Dr. Ernan McMullin, a Catholic priest who is an emeritus professor at the University of Notre Dame and a former director of its history and philosophy of science program.
His work unites the British and American traditions of horror fiction - it unites the realistic and the fantastic, the personal and the cosmic, the occult and the scientific.
Explorer 1 also had a scientific payoff: Its cosmic ray detector, designed by James Van Allen of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, led to the discovery of the so-called Van Allen Radiation Belts, two donut-shaped rings of intense radiation that girdle Earth along its magnetic field lines.
What is so fascinating for Bible-believing Christians is that [the] scientific account of cosmic history looks a lot like what a Jew or a Christian would expect.
In posing the question of how the universe will end, he introduces scientific theories of cosmic cycles by invoking -- less disparagingly this time -- the Norse apocalyptic scenario of Ragnorak.
