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Robert Jastrow is the founder and former director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and former professor of astronomy and geology at Columbia University, New York, and professor of earth sciences at Dartmouth College. He was a recipient of the Arthur Flemming Award for Outstanding Service in the U.S. Government, the Columbia University Medal for Excellence and the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement.
He is a prolific science writer, particularly in astronomy, cosmology and space exploration. He doesn't hesitate to speak his mind, particularly when it comes to discoveries that discomfit his fellow scientists and their not-too-objective reactions to such findings.
His comments speak volumes about the attitudes-and at times outright bias-some scientists hold against the possibility of a Creator. Although personally an agnostic, he notes that scientific discoveries and the book of Genesis have much more in common than many of his colleagues are willing to admit (emphasis added throughout the following quotes).
"The astronomical proof of a Beginning places scientists in an awkward position, for they believe that every effect has a natural cause, and every event in the Universe can be explained by natural forces, working in accordance with physical law. Yet science can find no force in nature that might account for the beginning of the Universe; and it can find no evidence that the Universe even existed before that first moment. The British astronomer E.A. Milne wrote, 'We can make no proposition about the state of affairs [in the beginning]; in the Divine act of creation God is unobserved and unwitnessed'" (The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe, 1981, p. 17).
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