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Na świecie jest coraz więcej osób, naukowców przyrodników, filozofów i teologów, którzy w sposób profesjonalny zajmują się kwestiami relacji nauka-religia, nauka-teologia, rozum-wiara.

Naukowcy polscy

Michał Kazimierz Heller (ur. 12 marca 1936 w Tarnowie) – ksiądz katolicki, profesor nauk filozoficznych, teolog, fizyk, kosmolog. Jest profesorem filozofii na Uniwersytecie Papieskim Jana Pawła II w Krakowie, pracownikiem Watykańskiego Obserwatorium Astronomicznego, fundatorem i dyrektorem Centrum Kopernika Badań Interdyscyplinarnych (UPJP2-UJ) oraz dytektorem Ośrodka Badań Interdyscyplinarnych (UPJP2), a od 1990 r. – członkiem Papieskiej Akademii Nauk. W 2008 r. jako pierwszy Polak został laureatem Nagrody Templetona, przyznawanej za pokonywanie barier między nauką a religią.

Więcej: Wikipedia; Zdjęcie: KUL; Strona osobista ks. prof. M. Hellera

Józef Mirosław Życiński (ur.1948) – arcybiskup metropolita lubelski, duchowny katolicki, filozof, teolog, publicysta. Autor ponad 50 książek i ponad 300 artykułów poświęconych problematyce filozoficznej, teologicznej, kulturowej, naukom przyrodniczym. Publikacje: W kręgu nauki i wiary (1989); (współautorstwo z Michałem Hellerem) Dylematy ewolucji (1990, 1996); Trzy kultury: nauki przyrodnicze, humanistyka i myśl chrześcijańska (1990); Bóg Abrahama i Whiteheada (1992); Elementy filozofii nauki (1996); Inspiracje chrześcijańskie w powstaniu nauki nowożytnej (2000); Bóg i ewolucja. Podstawowe pytania ewolucjonizmu chrześcijańskiego (2002). Więcej: Wikipedia, Kuria Lubelska. Strona poświęcona abp J. Życińskiemu. Zdjęcie: TV Polnews

Andrzej Tomasz Anderwald (ur. 1964) – dr hab. nauk teologicznych, ksiądz katolicki. Specjalizuje się w teologii fundamentalnej. Pełni funkcję prodziekana ds. nauki i współpracy z zagranicą Wydziału Teologicznego Uniwersytetu Opolskiego. Publikacje: Nauki przyrodnicze w procesie rozpoznania cudu (1997), Rozum i wiara (2001). Teologia a nauki przyrodnicze. Rola wiedzy przyrodniczej w dociekaniach teologicznych (2007). Za: Wikipedia.

Naukowcy zagraniczni

John F. Haught, a Catholic theologian, Senior Fellow, Science & Religion, at Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University. He was formerly Professor in the Department of Theology at Georgetown University (1970-2005) and Chair (1990-95). His area of specialization is systematic theology, with a particular interest in issues pertaining to science, cosmology, evolution, ecology, and religion. He is the author of many books including, Making Sense of Evolution: Darwin, God and the Drama of Life; God and the New Atheism; and Christianity and Science: Toward a Theology of Nature. Haught has also authored numerous articles and reviews.

Photo Source: Woodstock Theological Center. Go there for more info on J. Haught

Jacques Arnould OP, francuski filozof, historyk nauki i teolog. Zajmuje się zagadnieniami etycznymi, społecznymi i kulturalnymi związanymi z przestrzenią kosmiczną. Pracuje w Institut Catholique w Paryżu i w Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES), Francja. Więcej: Wikipedia.

Jean-Michel Maldamé OP. Studiował matematykę, filozofię i teologię. Profesor teologii na Institut Catholique Toulouse, dyrektor Institut de Recherches Interdisplinaires sur les Sciences. Od 1997 roku członek Papieskiej Akademii Nauk.

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Fr. José Funes, SJ was born in 1963, in Cordoba, Argentina. He completed his masters’ degree in astronomy (licenciado en astronomía) at the National University of Cordoba in 1985, writing on the computational analysis of the photometry of eclipsing binary stars. In the same year, Funes entered the Society of Jesus.

He obtained a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 1990 at the Universidad del Salvador in San Miguel, Argentina. In the same university he attained the masters in philosophy (licenciado en filosofía) in 1996. In this master thesis he discussed cosmology as a science from the point of view of scientific realism. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1995 after completing the bachelor’s degree in sacred theology (S.T.B.) at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. In 2000 he obtained his doctorate in astronomy at the University of Padua with the study of the kinematics of ionized gas in the inner regions of 25 disk galaxies.

He joined the Vatican Observatory Research Group as staff astronomer in March 2000 and was appointed Director of the Vatican Observatory in August 2006 by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI.

Fr. Funes specializes in extragalactic astronomy. His field of research includes the kinematics and dynamics of disk galaxies, the star formation in the local universe, and the relationship between gravitational interaction and galactic activity.

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Br. Guy Consolmagno SJ was born in 1952 in Detroit, Michigan. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in 1974 and Master of Science in 1975 in Earth and Planetary Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his PhD in Planetary Science from the University of Arizona in 1978. From 1978-80 he was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the Harvard College Observatory, and from 1980-1983 continued as postdoc and lecturer at MIT.

In 1983 he left MIT to join the US Peace Corps, where he served for two years in Kenya teaching physics and astronomy. Upon his return to the US in 1985 he became an assistant professor of physics at Lafayette College, in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he taught until his entry into the Jesuit order in 1989. He took vows as a Jesuit brother in 1991, and studied philosophy and theology at Loyola University Chicago, and physics at the University of Chicago before his assignment to the Vatican Observatory in 1993.

In spring 2000 he held the MacLean Chair for Visiting Jesuit Scholars at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, and in 2006-2007 held the Loyola Chair at Fordham University, New York. He has also been a visiting scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center and a visiting professor at Loyola College, Baltimore, and Loyola University, Chicago.

Br. Consolmagno has served on the governing boards of the Meteoritical Society; the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) Division III, Planetary Systems Science (secretary, 2000 – present) and Commission 16, Moons and Planets (president, 2003-2006); and the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences (chair, 2006-2007).

He has coauthored five astronomy books: “Turn Left at Orion” (with Dan M. Davis; Cambridge University Press, 1989); “Worlds Apart” (with Martha W. Schaefer; Prentice Hall, 1993); “The Way to the Dwelling of Light” (U of Notre Dame Press, 1998); “Brother Astronomer” (McGraw Hill, 2000); and “God’s Mechanics” (Jossey-Bass, 2007). He also edited “The Heavens Proclaim” (Vatican Observatory Publications, 2009).

Br. Consolmagno is curator of the Vatican meteorite collection in Castel Gandolfo, one of the largest in the world. His research explores the connections between meteorites and asteroids, and the origin and evolution of small bodies in the solar system. In 1996, he spent six weeks collecting meteorites with an NSF-sponsored team on the blue ice of Antarctica, and in 2000 he was honored by the IAU for his contributions to the study of meteorites and asteroids with the naming of asteroid 4597 Consolmagno.