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- 3. Fr. Georges Lemaître was a Belgian Catholic priest, astronomer and physicist. He formulated what he called the "hypothesis of the primeval atom" or the "Cosmic Egg". Albert Einstein initially rejected Lemaître's theory as "abominable". This theory is more widely recognised today as the:
- 4. Blaise Pascal was a seventeenth-century French inventor, mathematician, philosopher, and theologian. He laid the foundation for probability theory and performed pivotal experiments to better understand fluids, pressure, and vacuums. In 1642, he invented a mechanical ___________.
- 5. Pascal proposed that if the Christian God does not exist, the agnostic loses little by believing in him and gains correspondingly little by not believing. If the Christian God does exist, the agnostic gains eternal life by believing in him and loses an infinite good by not believing. This argument is known as:
- 7. Fr. George Searle was an early twentieth century priest who discovered six __________.
- 8. Fr. Francesco Maria Grimaldi was an Italian physicist and Jesuit priest. He is known for key discovers about the free-fall of objects, the gravitational constant, and the diffraction of light. He drew an accurate map of the moon known as a:
- 9. Catholicism teaches that faith and reason are not opposed to each other, but rather are ______________ ways that humans come to deeper knowledge of truth. "Since the same God who reveals mysteries and infuses faith has bestowed the light of reason on the human mind, God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever contradict truth" (CCC 159).
- 11. This Jesuit priest was a seventeenth century astronomer who first measured the rate of acceleration of a free-falling body.
- 12. Despite everything, Galileo kept his Catholic faith until his death. In 1610, he wrote: “I am infinitely grateful to God who has deigned to choose me alone to be the first to observe such marvelous things which have lain hidden for all ages past.” Galileo had two daughters, and both became religious ________.
- 14. In 1992, Pope John Paul II made a formal apology acknowledging Church authorities were wrong in placing _________ under house arrest in 1633 and forbidding him from promoting heliocentrism. Heliocentrism was recognised earlier by the Church however, in the eighteenth century when Copernicus’ book was removed from the Index of Prohibited Books, and by Pope Leo XIII in 1893.
- 17. Catholics can accept both the Genesis account of creation and the theory of evolution simultaneously, taking into account the _____ and context of Genesis.
- 19. Roger Bacon was a thirteenth-century English philosopher, Franciscian friar and empiricist. He studied mathematics, astronomy, optics, and languages. He was the first European to describe the process of making gunpowder in detail. He emphasised the study of natural phenomena through observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and independent verification. This process is best described as the _________ _________.
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- 1. Belief in a creator God has facilitated science by promoting an understanding that nature is not divine and can be known. As created by a divine intelligence, the world is thoroughly __________________, and can therefore be explored and understood.
- 2. This Catholic religious sister was the first woman to earn a PhD in computer science in the United States and was an advocate for women's involvement in computing. She participanted in the develop of the BASIC programming language and founded the computer science department at Clarke University.
- 5. Fr. Teilhard de Chardin was a twentieth century Jesuit priest who wrote extensively on the history of life on earth based on the analysis of plant and animal fossils, an area of scientific study known as:
- 6. Nicholas Copernicus was a Catholic Canon who studied medicine, canon law and astronomy. He formulated a model of the universe that placed the sun rather than the earth at the centre of the universe. This theory is known as:
- 10. In 1669, Fr. Nicholas Steno laid the theoretical foundation for this branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers.
- 13. Scientism denies that there are dimensions of reality knowable in a non-scientific but still rational manner, demonstrating prejudice against literature, philosophy, metaphysics, mysticism and __________.
- 15. This priest conducted pea plant experiments between 1856 and 1863 which established many of the rules of heredity. He coined the terms "recessive" and "dominant" in reference to certain traits, and also demonstrated the actions of invisible "factors" (now called genes) in determining the traits of an organism.
- 16. Discovered by Nicholas Steno, a Catholic Bishop, this anatomical structure is the route that saliva takes from the major salivary gland into the mouth.
- 18. Scientism is the view that science alone provides the truth and therefore we should only believe statements if we have ___________ evidence to support them.