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That"s So Second Millennium

Paul Giesting, William Schmitt

Taking science AND faith seriously.

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Episode 038 - Jill Pasteris: Uncertainty and Faith

That"s So Second Millennium ·

2018/12/17

0:00 Experience as a Christian scientist 1:00 The billion year contact; awe 2:00 Awe and the vast scale of Earth science 3:00 Discoveries never shake faith 4:00 Evolution, randomness, the shortage of provable things 6:00 The bureaucratic mindset: certainty and judgment 7:00 Yucca Mountain, studtite, and uranyl peroxides (Peter Burns, Karrie-Ann Hughes) 8:00 Uranyl chemistry 9:00 Guy Consolmagno's thought experiment on planetary atmospheres 10:00 Uranyl peroxide buckyballs... 11:00 NOT in the initial

27:49

Episode 037 - Jill Pasteris: Christian scientist

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2018/12/10

3:00 Jill's career 5:00 Finding companionship as Christian scientists (not Christian Scientists...that's different...) 7:00 "Spiritual beings having a human experience" 8:00 Bioapatite; clearing up "loose ends" making a 20 year career arc 9:00 Apatite and phosphate: environment 13:00 Flint, Michigan: lead and protective minerals 14:00 Raman spectroscopy 16:00 Raman on the Mars 2020 rover; Alian Wang 17:00 Laser pointers, cat videos [the brave new world we live in] 18:00 The physics of Raman 19:00

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Bonus Episode - Nicolaus Steno

That"s So Second Millennium ·

2018/12/05

We talked about Steno quite a bit over the past several months. Briefly, he was a brilliant observational scientist. Brought up in Lutheran Denmark amid the violence of the seventeenth century, he wandered Europe and won fame as possibly the foremost observational scientist of his day, first in anatomy as a tremendously skilled dissectionist and then, via the bridge of biological fossils, as one of the most important precursor figures of what would become geology in the following two centuries. He

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Episode 036 - Anne Hofmeister on Galactic Rotation,...

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2018/12/03

The times below are continuations from the last episode. My opening is about 1:30, and then we start with galaxy motions at "26:00". 26:00 Galaxy motions 27:00 Galaxy rotation curves: do not match Keplerian orbits 28:00 Galaxies spin more like records (laggy soft records); mass distribution is nothing like the Solar System 29:00 Hurricanes as a better analogy for galaxies 30:00 Stars in a galaxy move in local organization 32:00 Nebulas 34:00 The opposite extreme: rigid body rotation 35:00

28:37

Episode 035 - Anne Hofmeister Shakes Up Earth Science

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2018/11/26

TSSM goes heavy: hard-hitting journalism from one of science's great controversialists, Anne Hofmeister. Intrigued? Disagree? Write me an email (giesting@alumni.nd.edu) or look her up at Washington University in St. Louis' EPS department website. The times below are keyed to the start of the interview and ignore my opening (just over 2 min). 0:00 Introduction 1:00 Anne's background (sorry, this part Anne was talking so quietly that I can't seem to fix it with Audacity, but bear with us; we moved the

20:59

Episode 034 - Stephen Barr on Why to Be a Religious...

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2018/11/19

~0:00 Question: advice for students 1:00 Don't be afraid to be a religious scientist 2:00 Particular issues 3:00 Keep awake to the wonder of the world 4:00 Bill: ignorance of the common man about both science and religion 5:00 Modern Physics and Ancient Faith 6:00 Christopher Baglow: science and faith textbook 7:00 Church beginning (at long last?) to address the need to catechize & educate about this Phone ringing can't be excised without gutting Bill's question! 8:00 Media's portrayal of religion

24:05

Episode 033 - Stephen Barr on Lemaitre-Hubble Law and...

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2018/11/12

Minute Comment 0:00 Paul introduces 1:00 Bill: Lemaitre announcement 2:00 Lemaitre: faith & science not opposed 3:00 Barr: Lemaitre announcement 4:00 Ignorance of Lemaitre 5:00 Ignorance of the Christian, Catholic origin of science & famous Catholic scientists 6:00 Barr: late 19th century critical period for the forging of the myth of Church as anti-science 7:00 Science only professionalized in the late 19th century, looking for influence 8:00 More famous Catholic scientists 9:00 Mission of the

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Episode 032 - Science and Saints

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2018/11/05

Intro: Nobel Prize announcements Donna Strickland Nadia Murad Segue: Lemaitre press release Transition: the early 20th century golden age from Chesterton to Fulton Sheen Theme: All Saints Day Augustine Isidore Albert the Great Roger Bacon Nicolaus Steno Gregor Mendel Georges Lemaitre Please leave us feedback here by hitting the "Email Paul" link or using the "Facebook" link and commenting or messaging us there. Image: Braulio of Saragossa and Isidore of Seville, writing his Origins

01:25

Request for Feedback

That"s So Second Millennium ·

2018/10/29

We hope you've enjoyed the podcast so far, and in particular our last two episodes with Guy Consolmagno. TSSM has been running for over six months now, and we would love to get your feedback on how to make it better: What topics or approaches have you liked and want more of? Whom should we seek out for interviews? We definitely are cooking up our own lists, but you can influence us! What should we do less of? What about the audio works or bothers you? Volume (too low, too high, not consistent

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Episode 031 - Br. Guy Consolmagno: Teaching Science...

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2018/10/29

Paul moves from popular books to Br. Guy's 1990s planetary science textbook, Worlds Apart which Paul switched to in 2015, despite its age, precisely because of Br. Guy's explicit acknowledgment that "students want to learn about THE PLANETS." The chapters of the book therefore start with a saga of some planet, and then focus in on some process that is well exemplified on that planet. Other textbooks try to focus on processes and lose ME, let alone my students, most of whom were headed toward high

28:51

Episode 030 - Br. Guy Consolmagno: Galileo and Carl...

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2018/10/22

Br. Guy starts with a brief bio of himself as the meteorite curator and now director of the Vatican Observatory. If you aren't familiar with his life and career, I cannot suggest strongly enough to go find a copy of Brother Astronomer. Paul takes the opportunity to geek out a bit about the VO's collection of Martian meteorites, which includes pieces of varying size of the three flagship members of the three great classes of Martian meteorites: Chassigny, Shergotty, and Nakhla. We discuss the romance

29:19

Episode 029 - Geological Awe

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2018/10/15

For a change of pace, we discuss emotions and aesthetics and the sense of awe at the scale of the universe and the planet that we inhabit. Paul discusses the "billion year contacts" at his old stomping grounds in the St Francois Mountains of southeast Missouri and the lost world of the earliest visible life in the Burgess Shale. Paul and Bill close with a reflection on how the awe that we feel at comtemplating the enormous scale of space and time of the created world ought to make us better

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Episode 028 - Absolute Geologic Dating

That"s So Second Millennium ·

2018/10/08

In this episode we continue into the next logical topic, absolute dating, which is done via measurement of radioactive parent and daughter isotopes. Thus we move from the 19th century and classical physics into yet another way in which 20th century physics has revolutionized science. Paul gives a rundown, with many apologies for the exact data of isotope numbers and half-life lengths he has managed to forget, of the theory of radioactive decay. Bill, our proxy for the man on the street, starts us

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Episode 027 - Relative Geologic Dating

That"s So Second Millennium ·

2018/10/01

In this episode Paul lays out in a more systematic way the methods used in geology since the late 18th century to erect the detailed stratigraphic history of the Earth. Lithostratigraphy, which works via Steno's Laws, can be used on all the rocks in any outcrop. Its shortcoming is that it cannot be extended beyond a regional scale, at best--say, the state of Wyoming, or Wales and Corwall, etc. Biostratigraphy, the use of fossils, which includes the selection of specially suitable index fossils,

35:45

Episode 026 - The Rejection of Young Earth...

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2018/09/24

- Decay and refutation of the Genesis minimalist paradigm for interpreting geology. - What do contemporary young Earth creationists think happened during this epoch of human history (c. 1700-1830)? - Do they think about it at all? - Do they think that it was a conspiracy or open rebellion, a force of will to reject the Bible? - Late 18th / early 19th century debate over the age of the Earth - Change in status of fossils of extinct species from a doubted claim to a means of dating

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Episode 025 - Geology after Steno: Catastrophism,...

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2018/09/17

- Competitor paradigms in early geology, their conceptual and thematic relationships to Noah's Flood. - Catastrophism and its inverse, uniformitarianism Hutton, in some circles (especially Anglo-American ones) considered the father of geology, was a curious hybrid (from our point of view, anyway) of philosophical convictions. On the one hand, and what makes him famous and venerated among geologists today, is his methodology and core assumption that processes happening on the contemporary Earth

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Episode 024 - Geology after Steno: Diluvialism,...

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2018/09/10

With acknowledgments to A. Hallam and his Great Geological Controversies 18th century: it becomes more and more possible and even fashionable to discard the minimalist Scriptural timescale Nevertheless, Western thought is so thoroughly steeped in Christianity that every major development is either an extension (subconscious or not) of a Christian theme or a deliberate rejection of one. - Decay and refutation of the Genesis minimalist paradigm for interpreting geology. - "Diluvialism", the

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Episode 023 - Clericalism, Sex Abuse, Addiction, and...

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2018/09/03

Discussion notes: We start to discuss what everyone in the Catholic Church has been discussing for over a month now, which is the new storm of revelations about sexual abuse of children, youths, and seminarians by priests and bishops. Parallels between modern day and the 17th century. Nicolaus Steno (the subject of our last podcast) lived in a tumultuous time, and many of his contemporary churchmen, Protestant and Catholic both, do not cut an inspiring figure on the stage of history. Steno tried

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Episode 022 - Nicolaus Steno (Niels Stensen) - The...

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2018/08/27

In this episode we discuss the life and times of one Blessed Niels Stensen (Latinized as Nicolaus Steno), a Dane who laid down the basic principles that undergird the whole science of geology, from paleontology to stratigraphy to mineralogy and crystallography. Our discussion in the podcast is indebted to The Seashell on the Mountaintop by Alan Cutler. To better understand the impact of Steno's times on his thought and vice versa, we have to discuss extensively the intellectual world of the

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Episode 021 - Hypocrisy and Geology: Battlegrounds...

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2018/08/20

Bill and I start off by discussing some of the reasons why there is such animosity against faith and such a tendency to credit the claim that science and religion are mutually incompatible. I think we miss a great deal of the point if we do not take into account the relentless critique Christianity has mounted OF ITSELF over the past half millennium. The Reformation splintered the Christian nations and sparked unprecedented bloodshed between Christians. There had been terrible episodes before, but

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