1. The Dance of the Fertile Universe George V. Coyne, S.J. Vatican Observatory Chance and Destiny Embrace

2. Chance or necessity: God?

3. The Universe is Fertile Because It is old: 13.7 billion years It contains 10 thousand billion billion stars

4. From the Big Bang

5. Hubble Ultra Deep Field Irregular Galaxy Elliptical Galaxy Spiral Galaxy

6. M31

7. If we could view the Milky Way from above the disk, we would see its spiral arms

8. We see our galaxy edge-on Primary features: disk, bulge, halo, globular clusters

9. Milky Way in IR

10. MW Sagittarius 2

11. N.American Nebula

12. HST View of Orion

13. Orion 2

14. Clouds and Fragments

15. Tyffid Nebula

16. A peaceful death …

17. An eruptive death …

18. Crab Neb

19. Veil Neb

21. Solar System

22. Our Earth

23. Self-Conscious Universe

24. Holmes & Watson A Camping Trip

25. Holmes - Watson

26. Age - Distance

27. A CALENDAR OF THE EVOLVING UNIVERSE [Suppose we make the 13.7 billion year old universe have the age of one earth year; then] 1 January: The Big Bang 7 February: The Milky Way is born 14 August: The Earth is born 4 September: First life on the Earth 15 December: The Cambrian Explosion 25 December: The dinosaurs appear 30 December: Extinction of the dinosaurs

28. A CALENDAR OF THE EVOLVING UNIVERSE [Suppose we make the 13.7 billion year old universe have the age of one earth year; then] 31 December: at 7:00:00 pm: First hominids at 11:58:00 pm: First humans at 11:59:30 pm: Age of Agriculture 47 pm: The pyramids 58 pm: Jesus Christ is born 59 pm: Galileo is born at 12 midnight: today

29. Age - Distance

30. Size - Mass

31. Brain Development

33. Evolutionary tree

34. Tree – leaves/trunk

35. Bacteria

36. Barzelletta