Footnotes:

[1] Edwin Hubble, The Realm of the Nebulae (Yale University Press, 1936).

[2] Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (Bantam Books, 1988).

[3] Vera Rubin, Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters (Springer, 1997).

[4] Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (W.W. Norton, 2017).

[5] Augustine, Confessions, trans. Henry Chadwick (Oxford University Press, 1991).

[6] Athanasius, On the Incarnation, trans. John Behr (SVS Press, 2011).

[7] Basil the Great, Hexaemeron, trans. Blomfield Jackson (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. 8).

[8] Augustine, Confessions, trans. Henry Chadwick (Oxford University Press, 1991).

[9] Athanasius, On the Incarnation, trans. John Behr (SVS Press, 2011).

[10] John Polkinghorne, Science and Creation: The Search for Understanding (SPCK Publishing, 1988).

[11] Roger Penrose, The Emperor’s New Mind (Oxford University Press, 1989).

[12] Augustine, City of God, trans. Henry Bettenson (Penguin Classics, 1984).

[13] Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (Bantam Books, 1988).

[14] Gregory of Nyssa, On the Soul and the Resurrection, trans. Catharine P. Roth (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1993).

[15] Basil the Great, Hexaemeron, trans. Blomfield Jackson (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. 8).

[16] NASA, “James Webb Space Telescope: Discoveries,” NASA.gov, accessed October 2023.

[17] Andrea Ghez, Proceedings of the IAU (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

[18] Basil the Great, Hexaemeron, trans. Blomfield Jackson (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. 8).

[19] Edwin Hubble, The Realm of the Nebulae (Yale University Press, 1936).

[20] Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (Bantam Books, 1988).

[21] Carl Sagan, Cosmos (Random House, 1980).

[22] Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure (University of Chicago Press, 1939).

[23] Vera Rubin, Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters (Springer, 1997).

[24] Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (W.W. Norton, 2017).

[25] Kip Thorne, The Science of Interstellar (W.W. Norton, 2014).

[26] Andrea Ghez, Proceedings of the IAU (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

[27] Roger Penrose, The Emperor’s New Mind (Oxford University Press, 1989).

[28] Lawrence Krauss, A Universe from Nothing (Free Press, 2012).

[29] Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe (Vintage Books, 1999).

[30] Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (Dutton, 2016).

[31] Augustine, City of God, trans. Henry Bettenson (Penguin Classics, 1984).

[32] Athanasius, On the Incarnation, trans. John Behr (SVS Press, 2011).

[33] Basil the Great, Hexaemeron, trans. Blomfield Jackson (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. 8).

[34] Gregory of Nyssa, On the Soul and the Resurrection, trans. Catharine P. Roth (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1993).

[35] Origen of Alexandria, On First Principles, trans. G.W. Butterworth (Harper & Row, 1966).

[36] Tertullian, Apology, trans. T.R. Glover (Loeb Classical Library, 1931).

[37] Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies, trans. Dominic J. Unger (Paulist Press, 1992).

[38] Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, trans. John Ferguson (Catholic University of America Press, 1991).

[39] John Chrysostom, Homilies on Genesis (Catholic University of America Press, 1999).

[40] Maximus the Confessor, Ambigua, trans. Nicholas Constas (Harvard University Press, 2014).

[41] Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures, trans. Edwin Hamilton Gifford (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. 7).

[42] Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus, trans. Robert Grant (Oxford University Press, 1970).

[43] Edwin Hubble, The Realm of the Nebulae (Yale University Press, 1936).

[44] Augustine, City of God, trans. Henry Bettenson (Penguin Classics, 1984).

[45] Basil the Great, Hexaemeron, trans. Blomfield Jackson (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. 8).

[46] Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design (Bantam Books, 2010).

[47] Augustine, Confessions, trans. Henry Chadwick (Oxford University Press, 1991).