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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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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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20:18

See Four Planets this Spring!

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/04/23

From now through the beginning of June, you can see four planets closely aligned - Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and Saturn. On this special episode, we give you some pointers about how you can see these celestial diadems just before sunrise and we offer some thoughts about how they remind us of God's glory. One may not agree with Lewis's use of medieval symbol and pagan mythology as imaginative symbols pointing to Christ. We are not suggesting it is an appropriate apologetic approach for everyone

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01:05:30

The Wonders of the Webb

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/04/01

No, we aren't talking about the Internet! But about the newly launched James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), now roaming about the heavens a million miles from planet Earth. It was launched Christmas morning, December 25, 2021 from a European spaceport in French Guiana, in South America. A brand-new, ten-billion-dollar telescope venture, the James Webb Space Telescope is an infrared telescope and will be able to pick up some of the faintest light in the most distant regions of the cosmos. The James

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01:24:51

The Heavens - A Different View - with Dr. Danny Faulkner

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/02/21

As you know, we here at Good Heavens! can't stop talking about the heavens. So when a beautiful picture book comes out with the title The Heavens, how can we not talk about it! The heavens declare the glory of God. They are His creation, attesting to His invisible attributes of faithfulness, wisdom, love, power, and glory. Come and see the wonders of the heavens in a magnificent new pictorial book from astronomer Dr. Danny Faulkner of Answers in Genesis along with two backyard astrophotographers

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01:25:02

Chariots of the Gods? No.

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/02/07

Spoiler Alert! On this episode Wayne and Dan debunk the "ancient alien" idea! What are some modern prejudices we hold about the ancient past? Were ancient people not as smart as we are? Did their civilizations require the intervention of highly advanced alien beings? Has modern scientific knowledge fully debunked the idea of God? Is God just a myth created out of the ignorance of our ancestors? We tackle these questions and a lot more, including how belief in UFOs and aliens often does lead into

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38:18

The First Star - Are Modern Scientific Theories and...

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2022/01/22

Was there a first star? If so, how did it form? Believe it or not, the secular material sciences have no real evidence to support theoretical models of how the first stars came to be or how the stars we see today came into existence. How then should we as Christians best understand naturalist models of the cosmos that take no account for God's glory? On this special episode of Good Heavens! Dan offers some reflections about the nature of scientific models and Christian theology. Book mentioned by

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46:43

The Star of Bethlehem - What Did the Magi See? Part 2

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2021/12/27

This is a special combined Christmas episode with our sister podcast Apologetics Profile. The wondrous gift is giv’n! So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of his heav’n. No ear may hear his coming, but in this world of sin, where meek souls will receive him, still the dear Christ enters in. How silently, how silently, You have likely heard or sung these very lines over the course of the last few weeks. They are a verse from Philip Brooks' 1868 Christmas hymn O Little Town of Bethlehem.

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01:16:38

Stars, Song, and the Incarnation - Christmas with Dr....

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2021/12/23

The ancient way of understanding creation included a harmonious relationship between man and the cosmos we inhabit. This included the wonderful notion of creation being able to “sing” and declare the glory and radiant praise of the One who created everything, the Lord Jesus Christ. Music and song are as much an integral part of creation as are the air we breathe and the food we eat. But this enchanted and sacred way of understanding the cosmos is largely lost to our culture today. How might we

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58:09

The Star of Bethlehem - What Did the Magi See? Part 1

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2021/12/20

This is a special combined Christmas episode with our sister podcast Apologetics Profile. When we think of stars today, the first thing that may often come to mind are celebrities, Hollywood stars. If one evening you found yourself underneath the glowing industrial-scale light pollution of Los Angeles, you're probably more likely to see a famous celebrity than any single star in the sky. We are more likely to follow celebrities nowadays than we are stars in the sky. If you happen to be a

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42:30

The Sun and the Glory of God - Part 2

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2021/12/05

The sun is blinding and deadly (if we got too close to it) yet it is also life-giving and sustains the planets in their orbits. How can something so lethal to our existence also be so necessary for our existence? The sun reminds us of God's attributes in this regard. God is holy and dwells in unapproachable light. No human being can look upon or be in the presence of God's unmitigated holiness and not perish. But God is also absolutely necessary for the existence of the universe, our solar system,

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47:11

The Sun and the Glory of God - Part 1

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2021/11/27

How does our sun point us to the glory of God? It's massive! It would take 109 planet Earths to cover the 864,000-mile diameter of the sun. It's blinding, powerful, and according to modern science, the sun sits on an invisible, fireproof canvass of space-time fabric! It is truly a wonder to behold. As long as man has lived and moved upon the Earth, humans have studied our nearest star, worshiped it, sweated underneath its heat, performed rituals by it, kept time with it, raised crops with it, and

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01:04:36

The Beauty of the Pleiades!

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2021/11/08

You may have mistaken them for the Little Dipper - a small little bluish-white cluster of stars that look like a cart, a plough, or to some even a question mark. It is the asterism (stars that are not a constellation but a smaller group of stars within a larger constellation) of Taurus the Bull, visible in the early fall mornings and clear wintry nights. Poems, stories, songs and myths surround this beauteous gem of the night skies. A Japanese auto manufacturer even features them as their main

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36:12

Fractals - The Secret Code of Creation - Part 2 -...

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2021/11/01

If God does not exist, then why does the universe exist? Why is there something rather than nothing? Any naturalistic theory about the existence of our universe inevitably finds itself addressing the concepts of infinity and eternity. It's unavoidable. You cannot explain the existence of the cosmos without invoking eternality. This is precisely the meaning of Romans 1:18-20. Through what God has made, all mankind has clearly seen God's invisible attributes, which would include His timeless and

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43:50

Fractals - The Secret Code of Creation - Part 1 with...

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2021/10/25

In the late 1970s and early 80s, mathematicians and computer engineers made a remarkable discovery. An entirely new universe of pure mathematics. Not a computer glitch. Not human design. Not a fluke of nature. Not anything that could be explained by chance. But an infinite series of stunning fractal patterns and designs that came from computer calculations of a very simple equation. Z squared plus C. Plugging in different variables for Z, then substituting each answer back into the equation,

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15:14

A Special Broadcast on Meteors with a younger Wayne

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2021/10/17

This is a special extended broadcast of Good Heavens! featuring our very own Wayne Spencer (a BLAST from the past!). This is an excerpt from a message by Wayne about meteors from 1991. Wayne discusses the Arizona meteor crater and the Tunguska meteor explosion over Russia in 1908. A little something special for you, an extended bonus episode about our meteor series! Enjoy! Podbean enables our podcast to be on Apple Podcasts and other major podcast platforms. To support Good Heavens! on Podbean

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34:53

How Meteors Impact Us Today (Part 2)

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2021/10/04

Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, just over 30 miles outside of Flagstaff. What slammed into what is now part of the Arizona desert to make this giant three-quarter-mile-wide and some 600-feet-deep hole in the ground? Scientists believe the meteor was between 150 and 200 feet wide. Earth is impacted routinely by meteors and micrometeors, tens of thousands of tons per year in fact, but thankfully a majority of these are no bigger than a sand grain or fine dust. But once in a great while, KABOOM

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37:54

Meteors, Meteoroids, and Meteorites Oh My! Part1

Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy ·

2021/09/27

Shooting stars. Meteors. Bright flashing streaks of light zipping through the heavens! They are a wonder and delight to all of us. If you've ever stood under the canopy of a pristine dark sky filled with stars and have seen even one meteor take you by surprise, you know the childlike delight that stirs the soul. But what exactly are meteors? From where do they come? What exactly are we seeing? What's the difference between meteors, meteoroids, and meteorites? And how might these celestial

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