Top NASA scientist talks faith and science at USC ‘Gold Mass’
In an age when the natural and the divine are so often dismissed as incompatible, what’s a scientist supposed to do with their faith?
The dilemma is nothing new — and nothing to be afraid of — for Jonathan Lunine, Ph.D., the chief scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Chief in Pasadena, a convert to the Catholic faith and co-founder of the Society of Catholic Scientists.
“It takes courage to witness to your faith, especially in situations where the expectation is that the secular point of view is the right point of view,” said Lunine at a Jan. 28 lecture at the University of Southern California Caruso Catholic Center.