Episodes
Thursday Jul 07, 2022
The Tenth Man - (Part 3 of 5) A Conversation with Apollo Astronaut Charlie Duke
Thursday Jul 07, 2022
Thursday Jul 07, 2022
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 remarkable story is evident. We spoke about his time working as CAPCOM for Apollo 11, his own trip to the moon on Apollo 16 and ultimately how the Lord Jesus Christ saved both Charlie and his family.
Here on part three Charlie reads from some of his favorite Psalms, shares a remarkable story about a wedding ring floating in the heavens and shares the beginnings of Jesus saving him and his family.
To see the video of this episode go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZerXQ-S0AU
For more about Charlie's story, you can visit his website. https://charlieduke.com/
Charlie and Dotty Duke's book Moonwalker https://www.amazon.com/Moonwalker-Astronaut-Enough-Satisfy-Success/dp/0840791062
Good Heavens! A Podcast about the Universe with Wayne and Dan https://www.patreon.com/GoodHeavens
Apologetics Profile
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/jwalker55293
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Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
The Tenth Man - (Part 2 of 5) A Conversation with Apollo Astronaut Charlie Duke
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
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 remarkable story is evident. We spoke about his time working as CAPCOM for Apollo 11, his own trip to the moon on Apollo 16 and ultimately how the Lord Jesus Christ saved both Charlie and his family.
Here on part two Charlie looks back on his own landing on the moon with John Young, talks a little bit about Buzz Aldrin's communion on the moon after Apollo 11 had landed, remembers James Irwin of Apollo 15 quoting from Psalm 121 from the moon, and reflects on the Apollo 8 crew on Christmas Eve of 1968 reading from the first chapter of Genesis.
Watch the video of this episode! https://youtu.be/9YpNFwbKTBA
For more about Charlie's story, you can visit his website. https://charlieduke.com/
Charlie and Dotty Duke's book Moonwalker https://www.amazon.com/Moonwalker-Astronaut-Enough-Satisfy-Success/dp/0840791062
Good Heavens! A Podcast about the Universe with Wayne and Dan https://www.patreon.com/GoodHeavens
Apologetics Profile https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/jwalker55293
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Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
The Tenth Man - (Part 1 of 5) A Conversation with Apollo Astronaut Charlie Duke
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
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 to speak with Charlie. It was like talking to family. His delight in telling his remarkable story is evident. We spoke for an hour and twenty minutes about his time working as CAPCOM for Apollo 11, his own trip to the moon on Apollo 16 and ultimately how the Lord Jesus Christ saved both Charlie and his family.
Part one of the video premiers Tuesday, July 5th.
Listen all the way to the end for some hilarious bonus material! You can't hear Charlie's reaction on the audio, but he is grinning ear to ear in the video!
Here on part one Charlie reflects on his experiences on the moon 50 years later and what it was like during the very tense final moments before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon during the historical Apollo 11 mission.
For more about Charlie's story, you can visit his website.
Charlie and Dotty Duke's book Moonwalker
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Saturday Jun 18, 2022
Escaping the Beginning? Part Two with Astrophysicist Jeff Zweerink
Saturday Jun 18, 2022
Saturday Jun 18, 2022
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 cosmologists who have openly expressed their intent to explain the cosmos without reference to God.
How then does the message of the cross speak to modern cosmology? If science found a way to explain the universe without a beginning would that force us to reinterpret Genesis?
By no means. Our guest again this week is astrophysicist Dr. Jeff Zweerink. On part two Jeff gives us more background into why beginningless models of the cosmos simply don't work, especially those which overtly attempt to "get rid of God." Jeff also offers how he sees our Christian faith in light of modern cosmology.
Astrophysicist Jeff Zweerink is a research scholar for Reasons to Believe (RTB), an organization dedicated to demonstrating the compatibility of science and the Christian faith. Jeff’s work focuses on helping people of all backgrounds bridge the perceived gap between science and the Christian faith.
Jeff has also made many media appearances, on television, radio, and in print. He earned a BS in physics and a PhD in astrophysics with a focus on gamma rays from Iowa State University. He taught and ran the planetarium at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, until postdoctoral research in gamma rays led him to the University of California, Riverside.
Prior to joining RTB, Jeff spent years working on the STACEE and VERITAS gamma-ray telescopes and was involved in research projects such as the Solar Two project and the Whipple Collaboration. He continues to work as a project scientist at UCLA on GAPS, a balloon experiment seeking to detect dark matter. Jeff is also a coauthor on more than 30 academic papers published in peer-reviewed journals, such as Astrophysical Journal, Astroparticle Physics, and Astrobiology.
A Christian from childhood, Jeff struggled to reconcile his love of science and his desire to serve God. While an undergrad at Iowa State University, he heard astrophysicist and RTB founder Hugh Ross speak on the constructive integration of science and faith. Hugh’s old-earth perspective introduced Jeff to a creation view that aligns with both Scripture and science. Ten years later, a professor encouraged Jeff to enroll in RTB’s volunteer apologetics program. This involvement eventually led to a scholar position in 2005.
Today, Jeff writes and speaks on the compatibility of science and the Christian faith and on evidence for intentional design from a multiverse theory, dark energy and dark matter, and exoplanets. His speaking engagements take him to universities, churches, and other venues around the world, including high schools and youth groups and numerous conference proceedings. He is also the author of Is There Life Out There?, Who’s Afraid of the Multiverse?, and Escaping the Beginning?.
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Friday Jun 10, 2022
Escaping the Beginning? Part One with Astrophysicist Jeff Zweerink
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
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 skepticism of the 18th-century Enlightenment philosophy led many to believe the universe could be explained without God.
Faced with what many thought was a reversion back to religion and philosophy, modern cosmological science stood face-to-face with the possibility our universe did in fact have a beginning.
This was a radically new idea in the contemporary sciences of the universe. To consider the universe as not only expanding but as having a beginning was, to say the least, not a bit unsettling. How could this be?
The best minds have been brought to bear on the question of the origin of our universe. And many alternative models and explanations have been offered that attempt to circumvent a beginning of the universe and thus once more eliminate God from the picture.
Our special guest on the next two episodes of Good Heavens! astrophysicist and researcher at Reasons to Believe, Dr. Jeff Zweerink walks us through his exploration of these alternative models and shares why he thinks none of them succeed in "escaping the beginning."
Jeff's 2019 book Escaping the Beginning?
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Friday Jun 03, 2022
Does the Fine-Tuning Argument Disprove God’s Existence?
Friday Jun 03, 2022
Friday Jun 03, 2022
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 mentioned in the broadcast.
Patrick Glynn God the Evidence
David Alcalde Cosmology without God?
Alex Vilenkin Many Worlds in One – The Search for Other Universes
William Lane Craig and Joseph E. Gorra A Reasonable Response, Answers to Tough Questions on God, Christianity and the Bible
For Watchman Fellowship go to: https://www.watchman.org
Book: https://www.thestoryofthecosmos.com
1 Cor. 10:31.
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Tuesday May 17, 2022
Expect the Unexpected! Supernovae Part 2
Tuesday May 17, 2022
Tuesday May 17, 2022
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 will do for us. The universe is filled with His stars. He created them, for signs and for seasons, and for days and years. He knows their names, He numbers all of them, not one of them is missing. He knows their days and their place.
If God cares for the stars in such detail, how much more so will He care for you? (Isaiah 40:26ff).
God can and will do exceedingly and abundantly above all we can ask or imagine, for His glory.
So in the midst of your daily routines, God can break in like a supernova and answer your prayers beyond anything you might have been expecting.
Come along with Wayne and me as we talk about the numinous wonders of supernovae and how they can be a reminder to us of God's glory and His care for us.
SN1987A from Hubble, NASA, and the ESA. https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2017/news-2017-08.html.
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Monday May 09, 2022
Supernovae and the Glory of God, Part 1
Monday May 09, 2022
Monday May 09, 2022
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 reflect those of Watchman.org or Good Heavens)
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/30-year-anniversary-supernova-1987a
https://earthsky.org/space/supernova-1987a-closest-brightest-supernova-star-death/
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Friday Apr 22, 2022
See Four Planets this Spring!
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Friday Apr 22, 2022
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. Certainly Christianity teaches the rejection of pagan idolatry in both the Old and New Testaments. Yet it was the apostle Paul himself who took ideas from pagan Greek poetry about the gods and related it to Jesus to the philosophers and stoics gathered atop Mars Hill in Athens (see Acts 17 and an episode on our sister podcast Apologetics Profile about Paul on Mars Hill here).
For any questions or concerns, drop us a line at Psalm1968@gmail.com.
Books mentioned on this episode:
Planet Narnia - The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
Living The Sky - The Cosmos of the American Indian
Our book The Story of the Cosmos - How the Heavens Declare the Glory of God
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Friday Apr 01, 2022
The Wonders of the Webb
Friday Apr 01, 2022
Friday Apr 01, 2022
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 Webb telescope supercedes the Spitzer Space Telescope that went before it. Spitzer was also an Infrared telescope. Come and find out about where the James Webb telescope is located and why astronomers are so excited about it.
Every time we build a bigger telescope, our understanding of the cosmos is radically changed. What wonders await us? Whatever Webb uncovers it is exciting to consider that no eye has ever seen the things God is about to reveal to us through the honey-combed mirrors of this new telescope.
Come along with Wayne and Dan as they ponder how telescopes have changed our understanding of the universe we inhabit and how it all might point to the glory of God in Christ.
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Image: The picture is an infrared colored image from the Spitzer Space Telescope, produced by NASA (cropped and resized for this).
Monday Feb 21, 2022
The Heavens - A Different View - with Dr. Danny Faulkner
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
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 Glen Fountain and Jim Bonser (I mispronounced his name in the podcast, my apologies!).
From the sun and moon to way out in deep space where beauteous nebulae and galaxies, this book not only showcases stunning, high quality images of the cosmos, all taken by Danny, Glen, or Jim, but also combines science and Scripture in a meaningful, down-to-earth, and encouraging way.
The video of this program shows beautiful photography and gives a great introduction to observational astronomy. To watch the video go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73iGfxGFvIc
Dr. Danny Faulkner holds an MS in Physics from Clemson University and an MA and PhD in Astronomy from Indiana University and taught at the University of South Carolina Lancaster for over 26 years. He serves as editor of the Creation Research Society Quarterly and has published over 100 papers in various journals. He now works as a researcher, author, and speaker for Answers in Genesis.
To get a copy of Danny's book.
To get a copy of The Story of the Cosmos
Visit our ministry's website for resources on apologetics, other religions, cults, and non-Christian worldviews. https://www.watchman.org.
The views expressed by Dr. Faulkner do not necessarily represent those of Watchman Fellowship, Inc. We hope to present a balanced perspective on the questions of the age of the universe. Watchman Fellowship does not openly or publicly endorse one side or the other in the age debate.
Image is from the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. Licensed from ESO and Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Image was cropped and resized.
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Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Chariots of the Gods? No.
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
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 the occult and cult-like practices and beliefs.
Watchman Fellowship https://www.watchman.org
Wayne's article on ancient aliens:
https://creationanswers.net/reviews/ancientaliens_pseudoarch.htm
Ancient Aliens Debunked (Video by Chris White. 3 hrs, 10 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9w-i5oZqaQ
Website by Chris White. Has some references related to topics in the video above.
https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com
Bible scholar Michael Heiser - Ancient Aliens Debunked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5dER45rkGk
See also this website by Michael Heiser.
http://SitchinIsWrong.com
Watchman Fellowship profiles on alien cults:
Heaven's Gate
https://www.watchman.org/profiles/pdf/heavensgateprofile.pdf
Raelians
https://www.watchman.org/profiles/pdf/raelianprofile.pdf
Previous episodes with Gary Bates on UFOs
Part One: https://goodheavens.podbean.com/e/aliens-ufos-and-the-bible-part-1-with-gary-bates/
Part Two: https://goodheavens.podbean.com/e/aliens-ufos-and-the-bible-part-2-with-gary-bates/
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Friday Jan 21, 2022
The First Star - Are Modern Scientific Theories and Scripture Compatible?
Friday Jan 21, 2022
Friday Jan 21, 2022
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 Dr. Emma Chapman
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Monday Dec 27, 2021
The Star of Bethlehem - What Did the Magi See? Part 2
Monday Dec 27, 2021
Monday Dec 27, 2021
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. Bethlehem means "house of bread." It is called the "city of David" and is the birthplace of the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, prophesied as Immanuel, God with us, the star of Jacob, the sun of righteousness.
Bethlehem is a fitting name for the place where the very bread of life Himself would come into the world as an infant, as a man, for man. The One who made the stars with the breath of His mouth drew his first infant breath under the starry skies of a lowly Judean province. As Charles Wesley's famous 1739 Christmas hymn proclaims:
Mild He lays His glory by
Born that man no more may die
Hark! The herald angels sing
Glory to the newborn King!
On part two of our discussion about the star of Bethlehem, we discuss more of the Scripture, background and history of what the star the Magi saw in the east may have been.
Though another Christmas has come and gone so quickly, let us never forget that the real star of Bethlehem was not the star itself, but the bright and morning star (Rev. 22:16, the star of Jacob (Num. 24:17), the Creator of the stars and the entire cosmos (Gen. 1:1,14; Col. 1:16-20; John 1:1-14), incarnate as a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger (Luke 2).
Wayne Spencer's article on The Star of Bethlehem.
Brady Blevins' profile on Zoroastrianism.
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Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Stars, Song, and the Incarnation - Christmas with Dr. Christina George
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
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 recapture it?
On this special Christmas edition of Good Heavens! we talk with musicologist Christina George about music, song, creation and how they all point us to Christ Jesus our Lord.
Dr. Christie George is a pianist and musicologist from the Pacific Northwest. Her research centers around music’s place within the academy and changing conceptions of good taste insofar as taste relates to the nature of the self and one’s apprehension and perception of beauty. She has written and presented on topics including taste and the philosophy of art, German Idealism, the role of the self in contemporary worship music, and the phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion at conferences in the U.S. and Europe. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music at Sterling College where she teaches courses in Applied Piano, Aural Skills, Music History, and Music Theory.
https://cjgeorge.com/
Antiphons mentioned in this broadcast.
Ad Missam in Vigilia, Gradual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l68I7zAuhU
J.A.C. Redford, "O Oriens": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5OppzQgMZI
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