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	Robert Jastrow - SourceWatch
		Jastrow joined the NASA when it was formed in October 1958 and founded in 1961 NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies for which he was the director until his retirement in 1981.
		Eleven years later Jastrow resigned from Dartmouth and he became the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Mount Wilson Institute which manages Mount Wilson Observatory in California on behalf of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
		Robert Jastrow, The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe, Simon and Schuster, November 20, 1981, ISBN 0671433083
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Robert_Jastrow (288 words)

	PBS: Think Tank: Transcript for "Collision Between Science and Religion"
		JASTROW: The two spheres of thought should and really do dealwith separate realms of inquiry because science is concerned withtrying to explain to us with predictive power what the reason is forwhat we see around us, but religion is concerned with the purpose,whether there's a larger design in all of this.
		JASTROW: Ben, 40 years ago is an interesting time point,because 40 years ago, we did not have proof in cosmology that theuniverse began in a certain instant of time as a result of forces youcannot describe at the present time.
		JASTROW: I do not think it is so that this planet is the onlysite of chemical evolution and the emergence of intelligent lifebecause I see nothing exceptional about the chemistry or the physicsof our planet's history compared to the trillions of others we know,by inference, exist around us.
	www.pbs.org /thinktank/transcript224.html (3521 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		...Jastrow ascribes to the Soviets-i.e., that they are preparing a preemptive counter-6/COMMENTARY JUNE 1984 force strike against our land-based missiles-to explain why they have placed such a large portion of their nuclear weapons into their land- based missiles and why they have considerably more nuclear weapons than they need for minimal deter- rence...
		...Jastrow: B-52's can "fly at high altitudes, which means that they can be picked up by a radar at a considerable dis- tance," but in their strategic role they fly (like the B-l) at low altitudes, and both at subsonic speed...
		...Jastrow depends too much upon the vaunted report of the Scowcroft commission, which is not a sober and accurate appraisal of Soviet military capability but a biased, opinionated essay prepared by a group of superhawks in order to advance their interests...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V77I6P4-1.htm (12259 words)

	Jastrow, Robert (1925-)
		Jastrow earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Columbia in 1948 and carried out further research at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, and the University of California, Berkeley, before becoming an assistant professor at Yale (1953-54).
		He then served on the staff at the Naval Research Laboratory (1954-58) before being appointed chief of the theoretical division of the Goddard Space Flight Center, and then director of the Goddard Institute of Space Studies in 1961, a post he held for 20 years.
		Jastrow’s work has ranged across nuclear physics, plasma physics, geophysics, and the physics of the Moon and terrestrial planets.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/J/Jastrow.html (181 words)

	ch13-4.htm
		An imaginative theorist, Jastrow over his years with NASA interested himself in atmospheric and magnetospheric physics, meteorology and atmospheric predictability, the origin of the moon and planets, and astrophysics and cosmology.
		In December 1958 Jastrow suggested to Administrator Glennan the establishment of a NASA fellowships program to be administered by the National Research Council of the Academy of Sciences.
		An important element of Jastrow's concept was close working relations with local universities, for teaching and working with doctoral students was considered one of the best ways to keep a researcher on his toes and was one of the best stimuli imaginable for generating research ideas.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-4211/ch13-4.htm (2222 words)

	Quote: Robert Jastrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Jastrow used the word "appears" because he was arguing that evolution has unsolved problems.
		Jastrow is an astronomer, not a biologist or paleontologist, and he apparently was not aware that the eye is considered to be a solved problem.
		In his defence, Jastrow's book was published several years before Richard Dawkins wrote his excellent explanations of the subject.
	www.don-lindsay-archive.org /creation/quote_jastrow.html (156 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Journey to the Stars, by Robert Jastrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		...Jastrow explores conceptually some possible ways in which human beings could visit planets orbiting stars other than the sun, stars whose distances from us must be measured in light years...
		...As Jastrow points out, for the past three or four decades powerful television transmissions have been beaming into space from earth, providing unmistakable (if perhaps unflattering) evidence of life detectable by intelligent creatures elsewhere in the universe who might be engaged in a similar search...
		...Jastrow is particularly interested in what can be learned about the planets-both those in our solar system and those that may exist around stars other than the sun...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V89I1P72-1.htm (1098 words)

	Brightsurf: God and the Astronomers Second Edition by Robert Jastrow
		Jastrow focuses on several points where the two disciplines of science and religion converge, but a cyclic feedback is kept alive.
		Robert Jastrow, is the director of Mount Wilson Observatory and was founder and director for twenty years of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
		Jastrow argues that this second mountain is unaviodable and unclimbable.
	www.brightsurf.com /item.php?ASIN=0393850064 (2245 words)

	all Jastrow +quot;Quote+quot; was a Wolff lie, #1 of I read the book. Here's what Bill Fun
		Jastrow denegrates the scientific community for not immediately accepting the Big Bang Theory as soon as it gained a little bit more evidence than Steady State, but instead the said community waited until many more facts were aquired.
		Jastrow would have scientists immediately accept all new theories that are presented, valid or not, just in case they later prove valid.
		Jastrow then proceeds to make even more bold, occultic assertions: "Now we[sic] see how the astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of the origin of the world." pg 14 "We" don't, and it doesn't.
	www.skepticfiles.org /evolut/jastroex.htm (1368 words)

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		Robert Jastrow is Director and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Mount Wilson Institute, which manages Mount Wilson Observatory in California on behalf of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
		Jastrow is a member of the NASA Alumni Association.
		Jastrow was the first chairman of NASA’s Lunar Exploration Committee, which established the scientific goals for the exploration of the moon during the Apollo lunar landings.
	www.nss.org /about/bios/jastrow.html (335 words)

	TCS Daily - A Giant Remembers
		Jastrow was the founding director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
		Jastrow: We had the world's biggest and fastest computer at the time, which was an IBM 36095.
		Jastrow: I think that's a terribly interesting result, that there is a chain of cause and effect that stretches, without a break, from the big bang in the beginning of the universe, down through the formation of stars and planets.
	www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=100402B (1811 words)

	Robert Jastrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Jastrow (1925 –) is an American Astronomer, physicist and cosmologist.
		He has attracted criticism due to some of his statements which have been picked up and championed by the "intelligent design" movement to support their cause.
		He cited that such a premise would have involved deceiving thousands of expertly trained NASA employees, including himself, and that he saw no such evidence of this during his work on the Apollo program or his 20 year directorship of NASA's Goddard Institute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Jastrow (364 words)

	TCS Daily - Missile Defense Spinoffs from Outer Space
		Jastrow, an astronomer who has been a leading figure in missile defense matters for decades, offered three more examples of the value that NMD has spun off onto his own academic discipline.
		But the costly fruits of those efforts have been declassified now, and the spinoff has given new life to terrestrial telescopes, which were once thought to be on their way to obsolescence because of increased interference in the atmosphere.
		Jastrow, whose Mt. Wilson Observatory is in the thick of Los Angeles "light smog," said proudly, "Mt. Wilson now produces images that are as sharp as the Hubble Space Telescope."
	www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=071601D (1218 words)

	Life on Mars Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Robert Jastrow, Director of the Mount Wilson Institute, will be the lead-off speaker in the MWOA (Mt. Wilson Observatory) Winter-Spring Lecture Series.
		Refreshments at 1:30 PM Lecture at 2:00 PM Dr. Jastrow is the well known author of "God and the Astronomers", "Red Giants and White Dwarfs" and "A Journey to the Stars".
		Jastrow will tie together the recent "life on Mars" discoveries, annoucements, and controversies, with the new technology at Mt. Wilson Observatory, designed to aid in the quest for extrasolar planets.
	www2.jpl.nasa.gov /snc/lect1.html (146 words)

	Robert Jastrow - Celebrity Atheist List
		Jastrow, director of the Mount Wilson Observatory, president of the George Marshall Institute and author of God and the Astronomers appeared on an installment of Ben Wattenberg's Think Tank which aired September 9, 1995.
		Jastrow was asked about his own beliefs and said: "I'm a committed reductionist.
		I think that the whole is equal to the sum of the parts.
	www.celebatheists.com /index.php?title=Robert_Jastrow (187 words)

	Denis Dutton on Robert Jastrow's God and the Astronomers
		If, of course, the essential elements Jastrow sees as shared by Genesis and Big Bang theory are merely that both talk about some sort of cosmic beginning, then his thesis is hardly notable, though he might have pointed out that the creation myths of virtually all religions share that element too.
		The terms “beginning” and “creation,” applied to the context of cosmology, are notoriously tricky, and Professor Jastrow’s ambiguous use of them is indicative of a carelessness that prevails throughout his whole enterprise.
		When Jastrow entertains the idea that out universe might be followed by “a second Creation,” and then after a collapse by “still another Creation,” he is no longer using the word “Creation” in the theological sense at all.
	www.denisdutton.com /jastrow_review.htm (699 words)

	Home Alone in the Universe? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		And why should Robert Jastrow think our generation will be the lucky one to finally make contact, aside from the fact that his generation of astronomers can’t die in peace until it happens?
		According to Jastrow, "That started in intensity, at the million-watt level, about thirty years ago, in the 1960s." Jack Parr and I Love Lucy are at a wave front, he said, that’s spreading out into the cosmos.
		Even Robert Jastrow, who has proved more relentlessly upbeat about alien civilizations than any other astronomer with whom I’ve spoken, appears to have had some second thoughts.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0203/articles/heeren.html (6756 words)

	Atheism Hits a Second Brick Wall; The Second Law of Thermodynamics
		According to Princeton physicist Robert Dicke, an infinite number of these cycles of expansion and contraction of the universe would "relieve us of the necessity of understanding the origin of matter at any finite time in the past." The creation event becomes irrelevant, and our existence could be attributed to one lucky bounce.
		NASA scientist, Robert Jastrow, notes that, under the force of gravity, in order for the universe to collapse back on itself, it would need to have an average density of at least one hydrogen atom in a volume of ten cubic feet.
		According to Jastrow, the known amount of matter in the universe is 1000 times to small to reverse the expansion.
	www.ecclesia.org /truth/crunch.html (1689 words)

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		Jastrow, Robert - THE ENCHANTED LOOM (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1981) p.
		Jastrow, Robert - GOD AND THE ASTRONOMERS (NY: W.W. Norton, 1978) p.
		According to standard models [all based on the big bang theory], the first stars needed at least 500 million years to begin lighting up and another 700 million to 1 billion years to manufacture heavy elements such as iron and spread them through space.
	www.gvtc.com /~hdolan/Databases/Cosmology.htm (1749 words)

	references
		Jastrow and Thompson, Astronomy, Fundamentals and Frontiers, 2nd edition, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1974, p.
		Burnham, Robert, Jr., Burnham’s Celestial Handbook, Dover Publications, New York, 1978, p.
		Jastrow, Robert, Red Giants and White Dwarfs, Harper and Row, New York, 1967, p.
	www.reciprocalsystem.com /um/references.html (1392 words)

	SPACE.com -- CHARA Observatory Comes into Focus
		However, in its heyday, the Hooker was the worlds most powerful telescope, used by the likes of Edwin Hubble in the mid 1920s to prove the universe is expanding.
		Robert Jastrow, director of the Mount Wilson Institute, said CHARA would help return the peak to prominence.
		Although located near some of the smoggiest air in the country, Mount Wilson prides itself on its excellent "seeing," thanks to the stable air that flows in from the Pacific Ocean over the peak.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/astronomy/chara_dedication_001005.html (732 words)

	EDI - Robert Jastrow founder of NASA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Robert Jastrow founder of NASA - Replies: 0
		He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”
		—Robert Jastrow, A confirmed agnostic, and founder of NASA's Goddard institute for Space Studies
	www.sqlspace.com /robert-jastrow-founder-of-nasa-vt22802.html (318 words)

	Robert Jastrow Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Dr. Jastrow reviews the development of our understanding of space from the Big Bang theory through the Soviet Phobos Mission and projects the real possibilities for man's future in space.
		Dr. Jastrow discusses the scientific discoveries that bring science into agreement or conflict with religion, and examines the latest evidence in favor of, as well as against, the Big Bang theory.
		Origin of the solar system; proceedings of a conference held at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, January 23-24, 1962.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Robert_Jastrow (333 words)

	The Marshall Institute - National Defense
		"Missile Defense Shield Gathering Momentum, Despite Recent Glitch," Robert
		"Why We Need the Airborne Laser," Simon P. Worden and Robert Luzzi, December 1, 1998
		"Why President Reagan is Right about Missile Defense," Robert
	www.marshall.org /category.php?id=4 (845 words)

	Syllabus: Evolution, DNA and the Soul
		Chapter 6 of The Missing Moment by Robert Pollack: "The Fear of Death"
		"[Robert Pollack] reports that within the past few years scientists have discovered how a 40-cycle-per-second wave, arising from deep inside the thalamus, sweeps through the entire brain, constantly binding together sensory information and memories.
		Chapter 5 of God and the Astronomers by Robert Jastrow
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cssr/DNA/syllabus.html (398 words)

	The Enterprise Mission - Europa
		except for two significant exceptions: inventor of the communications satellite, famed science and science fiction writer ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), Arthur C. Clark; and, Dr. Robert Jastrow -- one of the founders of NASA, and former Director of its Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
		Based on Hoagland's startling theory, Clark two years later would create a sequel to his most famous work ("2010: Odyssey Two" -- after long claiming that such a follow-on was "impossible").
		This quite brilliant concept has been taken seriously by a number of astronomers (notably NASA's Institute of Space Studies, Dr. Robert Jastrow), and may provide one of the best motives for the projected GALILEO Mission..."
	www.enterprisemission.com /europa.php (584 words)

	+quot;God and the Astronomers+quot; by Robert Jastrow, 1978, pp. 11, 14. +quot;It turns ou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		+quot;God and the Astronomers+quot; by Robert Jastrow, 1978, pp.
		"God and the Astronomers" by Robert Jastrow, 1978, pp.
		We become irritated, we pretend the conflict does not exist, or we paper it over with meaningless phrases." - Jastrow
	www.skepticfiles.org /evolut/jastrow.htm (78 words)

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