text: Well, it's great that some Catholics were inspired to learn something about science. Catholics, and other Christians, should be encouraged to do much much more of that, in fact. I happen to find evolutionary biology more interesting and meaningful than astronomy, but whatever grabs you, go with it.
  
  On the other hand, the total eclipse in itself, or else the precision with which astronomers predicted the path of totality across the US, is not anything like a "proof of God's existence" -- as though God were the sort of being whose existence could be detected in that sort of thing. If anything, it's really only the interest of human beings in this phenomenon, and their awed aesthetic / intellectual reaction, that can point to something divine, present in our minds.