1. LISTENING WITH ONE HEART THE EVOLVING UNIVERSE IN WHICH WE ARE CO-CREATORS George V. Coyne, S.J. Le Moyne College Syracuse, NY, USA

2. Chance or necessity: God?

3. The Universe is Fertile Because It is old: 13.8 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. We see our galaxy edge-on Primary features: disk, bulge, halo, globular clusters

9. MW Sagittarius 2

10. HST View of Orion

11. Orion 2

12. Clouds and Fragments

13. Tyffid Nebula

14. Stars shine by making heavier elements

15. Making Heavy Elements In a Thermonuclear Furnace

17. Crab Neb

18. Veil Neb

20. Solar System

21. Our Earth

22. Self-Conscious Universe

24. A CALENDAR OF THE EVOLVING UNIVERSE [Suppose we make the 13.8 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

25. A CALENDAR OF THE EVOLVING UNIVERSE [Suppose we make the 13.8 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

26. Brain Development

28. Tree – leaves/trunk

29. The “Bush” of Life From DNA Sequences (Mutations) We, ANIMALS, are a Small Branch At the Top Right

30. Chance or necessity: God?

31. Is God an engineer?

32. Figure 1.9

33. Self-Conscious Universe

34. Figure 1.9

35. Thank You coynegv@lemoyne.edu