Welcome to the other homepage of Arnold Benz !
There is already a homepage at ETH Zurich that describes my main professional activities.
I am an astrophysicist and study the Sun and how it formed together with planet Earth from an interstellar gas cloud. But I am not only a scientist. Sometimes I am amazed how the universe developed to today's diversity, or I am frightened how all that has evolved will decay in the future. Aside of my professional work, I have wondered about the Big Questions ofthe origin, meaning and goal of the cosmos.
Can we trust in the future? I find it challenging to talk to theologians, who have asked these questions since time immemorial. In these pages I summarize my thoughts and publications on the relation of science and religion.
New: Bringing Religion to the Outer Solar System, in: Religion Matters: Vol.2, Paul T. Babie and Rick Sarre (eds.), Springer, Nature Singapore, 2024, 85 -96
New: Mission to Saturn - The Story of a Debate About Science and God, Arnold Benz and Samuel Vollenweider, The Crossroad Publishing Company, New York, February 15, 2022, ISBN9780824550554.
New: Astrophysics and Religion in: Intersections of Religion and Astronomy, eds. Aaron Ricker, Christopher Corbally, and Darry Dinnel, Routledge, 2021, 176 - 184