Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy

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.

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

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!

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!

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!

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)

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)

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.