Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy

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A podcast about astronomy and faith with Wayne and Dan. Making astronomy relevant and understandable.... more

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The podcast currently has 213 episodes available.

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy episodes:

April 23, 2019 The Heavens are Full of Surprises! Ultima Thule and Beyond!
Earlier this year, the New Horizons Probe which unveiled the splendors of Pluto for the first time also found another enigmatic wonder astronomers have called Ultima Thule. What in the wide world of the heavens is this thing? What does it tell us about the solar system? Why all the fascination with it? Come along with Wayne and Dan as they explore this new discovery and what it can tell us about the nature of our solar system and the One who created it all.
Image credit: NASA/New Horizons
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42min
March 30, 2019 Creation, J.R.R. Tolkien, & Middle-earth with Dr. Holly Ordway
Join Dan on this episode of Good Heavens! for a fascinating chat with J.R.R. Tolkien scholar, professor of English and Christian apologist Dr. Holly Ordway on creation as seen through the mind and imagination of Tolkien. Holly helps us to see how Tolkien's vision of what Christ has created can help us see and appreciate the heavens and the earth afresh.
You can find out more about Holly's work on her own personal website.
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1h 9min
February 24, 2019 Good Heavens! It's Pluto!
Join Wayne and Dan as they explore all the wonderful mystery behind what was formerly once known as our ninth planet. What is Pluto? Where is it? Why all the excitement? Why is it not a planet anymore? Come be encouraged and delight two old guys trying to figure out how should we think "Christianly" about the wonder of the dwarf planet with a big heart!

Dan also butchered pronouncing names as usual, including Ultima Thule.
Dava Sobel's book. (SO-bel, not So-BEL, as Dan mispronounced her last name!).
The Pluto Files
Image credit NASA/New Horizons
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40min
February 10, 2019 Good Heavens! Wayne is Back and Gives Fine Tuning a Whirl!
Wayne is back and gives us some of his insights into fine tuning! This is part five of our series on fine tuning. Is fine tuning dependent on the Big Bang? Do you have to believe in the Big Bang to accept fine tuning? Tune in and find out what Wayne has to share!
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29min
January 30, 2019 Science and the Mind of the Maker - an Interview with Melissa Cain Travis!
Dan has the distinct pleasure of viewing author Melissa Cain Travis about her new book, Science and the Mind of the Maker. We talk about the universe, mathematics, Johannes Kepler and even Donald Duck! A delightful conversation about why the universe has "deep intelligibility" - Good heavens you can't miss this episode!
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57min
January 30, 2019 The Eucatastrophe of Fine Tuning (#4)
J.R.R. Tolkien, Job, and the Man of Sorrows.
What must it have been like for the Creator of the universe to be "despised and rejected" by His own creation? What was God's response to Job's suffering and complaint? Why would Jesus bother fine tuning a planet for life that would eventually put Him to death?
Come and see the "eucatastrophe" of fine tuning on this episode of Good Heavens!
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29min
January 30, 2019 Balloons, Don Quixote and More Fine Tuning! (#3)
Come along with Dan as he continues his conversation with Allen Hainline about the fine tuning of the cosmos. This is part 3 of our series. In this episode Allen and Dan briefly discuss some skeptic objections to fine tuning and Dan "tries on" Mambrino's Helmet and talks about helium balloons on the ceiling. Good heavens, you don't want to miss this one! (Part 3 of 5)
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43min
January 27, 2019 Part 2 of What in the World is Fine Tuning? With Allen Hainline
Has someone really "monkeyed" with the physics of our world? Join Allen Hainline and Daniel Ray as they continue to explore the wonders of gravity, neutrons, fundamental forces, sun spots, a physicist who became an Anglican priest, the oddities of light, Albert Einstein's famous "blunder", how God used fine tuning to help Allen with his faith, and how it all might remind us of Christ. (Part 2 of 5)
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29min
January 27, 2019 Good Heavens! What in the World is Fine Tuning?
This is first part in a series of five short podcasts on the Fine Tuning of the Universe. Dan Ray interviews Allen Hainline about the question, is our universe finely tuned to allow for living things? Is the universe designed for us? In this episode Allen unpacks a few of the basic aspects of Fine Tuning for us. We hope it will encourage you to find out more about it.
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22min
January 05, 2019 Good Heavens! Weird Stars!
There are billions of stars out there. Billions and billions. So Wayne and Dan took a while to pick out just a few of them! And here they are, a handful of celestial mysteries which remind us of the glory of God. We hope they will do the same for you!
Keep your eyes peeled for a new book coming out later in 2019, called The Story of the Cosmos! Dan and Wayne are both contributors along with a number of other authors writing about various topics relating astronomy to the glory of God and to faith. It will be published by Harvest House publishers, editors are Paul Gould and Daniel Ray.
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48min

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