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Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy

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

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01:22:54

Our Special Place in the Cosmos

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/11/26

If contemporary astrophysics and cosmology has demonstrated anything conclusively about the nature of our universe it is (1) We have a very special and unique place here on earth to observe and learn more about the universe and (2) It requires intelligent agents to create even the simplest models of our universe or other theoretical universes. In short, despite what popularizers of science tell us, we are indeed significant in the cosmos and there is an intelligent being behind and beyond the

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59:18

The Biblical Book of Job - Part 2

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/11/04

The book of Job in the Old Testament tells of a prosperous man who was very good who lost much of what he owned and had 10 children die in one day. Then he was struck with a terrible illness. The book includes lengthy discussions between Job and his friends and tells of the gnawing questions and frustration Job experienced. Job also contains the longest quoted passage of God speaking in the Bible, which ranges from high to low in creation. How does the beauty and majesty of the heavens and of

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01:04:13

The Biblical Book of Job - Part 1

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/10/28

The book of Job in the Old Testament tells of a prosperous man who was very good who lost much of what he owned and had 10 children die in one day. Then he was struck with a terrible illness. The book includes lengthy discussions between Job and his friends and tells of the gnawing questions and frustration Job experienced. Job also contains the longest quoted passage of God speaking in the Bible, which ranges from high to low in creation. Was Job a real person? What was God's answer to Job?

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18:07

See Jupiter and Meteor Showers Soon!

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/09/25

A short episode about seeing Jupiter this Monday, September 26th and a little background about meteor showers you can see this fall and how you can enjoy these declarations of God's glory. Meteor Shower Schedule Fall 2022 Image of Jupiter is from the James Webb Space Telescope (NASA/ESA/CSA). Podbean enables our podcast to be on Apple Podcasts and other major podcast platforms. To support Good Heavens! on Podbean as a patron, you can use the Podbean app, or go to

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01:33:13

Hrum Hoom! Treebeard and a Telescope

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/09/05

The "science" of the universe is daunting for most of us, in fact, quite literally in not a few ways, it's "over our heads"! Recently, the new James Webb Space Telescope has revealed some pretty spectacular never-before-seen vistas of some of the deepest regions of the universe. On this episode Wayne and Dan try to break some of it down and how we think it points to the glory of God. A careful reading of Scripture leaves one with the impression that God intended that everyone not only know about

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46:16

God of the Big Bang - Part 3 with Dr. Leslie Wickman

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/08/29

When we see a math problem in a text book or on a chalk or dry-erase board, we assume (quite rightly) it was written there by an intelligent agent. But when physicists discover the universe to be filled with mathematical laws, the implications are not a little disquieting, especially if one does not believe God exists. If God does not exist, from where do these laws come? Why is the universe intelligible? Why do our mathematics work so efficiently and elegantly in describing the universe? Modern

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32:34

God of the Big Bang - Part 2 with Dr. Leslie Wickman

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/08/22

"Everything that begins to exist has a cause." So begins the classical argument for God's existence known as the Kalam Cosmological Argument. Contemporary sciences of the heavens have, at least for the time being, confirmed that the universe we currently inhabit did indeed have a beginning. But what caused our universe to come into existence? The secular literature on the origin of the universe mentions God only in passing, or often merely to claim that theists are arguing about a god of the

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45:13

’God of the Big Bang’ Part 1 with Dr. Leslie Wickman

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/08/15

The Bible describes Jesus as "the Lion of the tribe of Judah." God asked Job if he can hunt the prey for the lion, suggesting that it is God Himself who does the "hunting." And in the Gospels, Jesus calls His disciples to "come" as He will teach them to be "fishers of men." Our God is a Hunter and a Fisherman. C.S. Lewis described Jesus as the "Hound of Heaven" who unrelentingly came after the skeptical literary scholar over the course of many years. And in Lewis' beloved classic The Lion, the

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49:02

Evolution and Alien Life (Part 2)

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/07/25

While the search for extraterrestrial intelligence outside of our planet and solar system has not turned up a single bit of evidence, since the mid 20th century, there has been an increasing number of people claiming to have been abducted by aliens. Are these abduction stories just the byproduct of watching too many science fiction shows? Is there life out there in the cosmos, intelligent aliens who have figured out interstellar travel and have come to Earth to abduct people? Are alien abduction

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55:09

Evolution and Alien Life (Part 1)

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/07/18

We have all probably wondered at some point if there is life in the universe outside of Earth. Our ability to land probes on distant worlds and send satellites outside our solar system, coupled with the over 5,000 exoplanets discovered since the early 2000s have inspired scientists to speculate more seriously about the possibility of extraterrestrial life. But even more fundamental than space probes, satellites and exoplanets in influencing many to consider the existence of life elsewhere in the

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19:33

The Tenth Man - (Part 5 of 5) A Conversation with...

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/07/09

In celebration of the Fourth of July and as 2022 is the year of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 16 moon landing, Dan sits down for a conversation with Apollo 16 astronaut, the tenth man to walk upon the lunar surface, Charlie Duke. Duke is a retired Air Force Brigadier General and the CAPCOM "voice" of Houston for the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon in July of 1969. It was such an honor and delight to speak with Charlie. It was like talking to family. His delight in telling his

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20:01

The Tenth Man - (Part 4 of 5) A Conversation with...

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/07/08

In celebration of the Fourth of July and as 2022 is the year of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 16 moon landing, Dan sits down for a conversation with Apollo 16 astronaut, the tenth man to walk upon the lunar surface, Charlie Duke. Duke is a retired Air Force Brigadier General and the CAPCOM "voice" of Houston for the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon in July of 1969. It was such an honor and delight to speak with Charlie. It was like talking to family. His delight in telling his

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21:57

The Tenth Man - (Part 3 of 5) A Conversation with...

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/07/07

In celebration of the Fourth of July and as 2022 is the year of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 16 moon landing, Dan sits down for a conversation with Apollo 16 astronaut, the tenth man to walk upon the lunar surface, Charlie Duke. Duke is a retired Air Force Brigadier General and the CAPCOM "voice" of Houston for the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon in July of 1969. It was such an honor and delight to speak with Charlie. It was like talking to family. His delight in telling his

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16:16

The Tenth Man - (Part 2 of 5) A Conversation with...

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/07/06

In celebration of the Fourth of July and as 2022 is the year of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 16 moon landing, Dan sits down for a conversation with Apollo 16 astronaut, the tenth man to walk upon the lunar surface, Charlie Duke. Duke is a retired Air Force Brigadier General and the CAPCOM "voice" of Houston for the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon in July of 1969. It was such an honor and delight to speak with Charlie. It was like talking to family. His delight in telling his

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25:30

The Tenth Man - (Part 1 of 5) A Conversation with...

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/07/05

In celebration of the Fourth of July and as 2022 is the year of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 16 moon landing, Dan sits down for a conversation with Apollo 16 astronaut, the tenth man to walk upon the lunar surface, Charlie Duke. Duke is a retired Air Force Brigadier General and the CAPCOM "voice" of Houston for the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon in July of 1969. We will be releasing this conversation in five parts in the coming week, so stay tuned! It was such an honor and delight

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47:09

Escaping the Beginning? Part Two with Astrophysicist...

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/06/18

The best science of the universe seems strongly to suggest our universe did indeed have a beginning. Why are the best minds in astrophysics trying to create models of the universe without a beginning? Are these models anywhere close to explaining a beginningless universe? As we heard last week, there is indeed an anti-supernatural bias in the sciences today against the idea of God having anything to do with our universe. The late Stephen Hawking, Lawrence Krauss, are just a few examples of

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42:57

Escaping the Beginning? Part One with Astrophysicist...

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/06/11

Moses knew it long before any of the best minds in physics and cosmology knew it. And what did Moses know? That "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Just a hundred years ago, the sciences of the heavens had stumbled across what appeared in the mathematical and observational data as evidence that our universe did in fact have a beginning. But like Moses, philosophers and theologians of earlier centuries understood our universe to have had a beginning. But the burgeoning

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19:27

Does the Fine-Tuning Argument Disprove God’s Existence?

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/06/04

A special edition of Good Heavens! There is a video version of this that will be available Friday (6-3-2022). https://youtu.be/BIpyvSiUgZM A theist wrote a 2017 article suggesting the fine-tuning argument is not evidence for God. We take a look at the basics of the fine-tuning argument, how it began, what it is, and why it remains a good argument, despite the article's conclusions. Original article can be found here. https://nautil.us/fine-tuning-does-not-imply-a-fine-tuner-10235/ Books

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47:14

Expect the Unexpected! Supernovae Part 2

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/05/17

No one in the observatory on that increasingly foggy London evening had even imagined they were all about to be a part of an unexpected discovery of a supernova. But as students were munching away at their pizza, they decided to aim their telescope at a target near the Big Dipper Boom. That's when they saw it. You just never know. While most of us will likely never be the first to discover a supernova, if we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, there is no end to the surprises and wonders He can and

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49:30

Supernovae and the Glory of God, Part 1

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/05/09

God's fireworks! Stars that explode. What could be more exciting? What are supernovae? Why do stars explode? And how do such wonders point us to God's glory? Find out on the next two episodes of Good Heavens! Wayne's article on supernovae. https://creationanswers.net/answersblog/2022/05/02/stellar-fireworks/ Some spectacular supernovae What is a supernova? https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/definition-what-is-a-supernova/ SN1987A (the views expressed in these articles do not necessarily

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