Well-traveled astronomer shares God's heavenly wonders

Published: 2006-11-08

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (CNS) -- For the last 35 billion miles of his life, James Mullaney has pointed to the skies as proof that God not only exists but that he designed the intricate universe of heaven-knows-how-many galaxies. "The universe sure didn't happen by accident," said Mullaney, an astronomer and self-proclaimed "celestial evangelist." The former curator of the Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science in Pittsburgh and director of the DuPont Observatory at the University of South Carolina in Aiken awed about 75 fellow parishioners at St. Edmond Church in Rehoboth Beach recently with his slide show and talk titled "Let the Heavens Declare." Now 38.5 billion miles into his life's journey (his age of "66 years by this planet's dating" multiplied by Earth's annual 583-million-mile orbit of the sun), Mullaney estimates that he has preached his message of a personal God whose creation seems infinite to more than a million people.

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