Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy

Mar 08 2025 150 ep. 49 mins 107
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A podcast about astronomy and faith with Wayne and Dan. Making astronomy relevant and understandable.

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Like a Bridegroom - Insights about the Sun from Scripture and the Parker Solar Probe - Part 2

Mar 08 2025 36 mins  
What does the Bible say about the sun? What is the purpose of the sun? Why did God create it? How does the sun remind us of God's invisible attributes? How could there have been life on earth before the sun? How can we best understand both what the Bible says and what science says about our sun? The sun was designed and created for God's glory; for signs and for seasons, for days a

Rejoicing to Run His Course - Insights about the Sun and the Parker Solar Probe - Part 1

Mar 01 2025 49 mins  
Our thumbnail image this week is not a doctored or photoshopped image, but a genuine picture of the sun from October 2024. Taken in 193 angstrom light on Oct. 26, 2024, NASA captured our sun in a state of rejoicing, or so it seemed (image credit NASA/GSFC/SDO). The darker regions you see that comprise the eyes and mouth are actually regions of the surface of the sun that have been

The Very Big and the Very Small Part 2 - A Conversation with a Cosmologist and Particle Physicist

Jan 31 2025 36 mins  
How might things like "spooky action at a distance" or mysterious as "dark matter" point us to the glory of God? Whether you are a theist or a non-theist or a Christian who believes in a young or an old universe, we can all agree on at least one thing. The universe is a fascinating place in which we find ourselves. That the universe is intelligible to us is even more remarkable. Bu

The Very Big and the Very Small Part 1 - A Conversation with a Cosmologist and Particle Physicist

Jan 31 2025 44 mins  
As human beings we occupy a wondrously peculiar size in the cosmos. With our unique stature, we are able to see and comprehend scales of the universe at the inconceivably huge and the unimaginably small. We here at Good Heavens! believe God has arranged this peculiar state of affairs and wants us to know and delight in what He has made. The heavens are telling of His glory and we

Black Hole Surprises! Part 2

Dec 06 2024 33 mins  
Black holes continue to amaze and surprise us. Just when it seemed the scientific community was settling in on how black holes form, a string of recent discoveries has begun to call those assumptions into question. How about a triple black hole system? Or how about a black hole that is "feeding" itself many times faster than astrophysicists thought possible. Here on part two Wayne

Black Hole Surprises! Part 1

Nov 28 2024 60 mins  
Black holes remain one of the most enigmatic and wondrous entities in the cosmos. We have only known about them for less than a century. And just when you think you've got a handle on what exactly they are, new discoveries begin to challenge these assumptions. Just in the last decade, astrophysicists have not only photographed a black hole but have detected gravitational waves, the

Who's Afraid of the Multiverse? Part 2 With Astrophysicist Dr. Jeff Zweerink

Nov 11 2024 34 mins  
The telescope technology of our time has revealed wonders in the cosmos our ancestors could only dream about. But have these discoveries in any way undermined the biblical account of creation? Our guest again this week, astrophysicist and author at Reasons to Believe, Dr. Jeff Zweerink tells us that we have nothing to fear, not even the multiverse! Many atheists and skeptics have t

Who's Afraid of the Multiverse? Part 1 With Astrophysicist Dr. Jeff Zweerink

Nov 06 2024 55 mins  
The universe is a fantastically wondrous place. There are more things in heaven and earth than are often dreamt of in our philosophies, to paraphrase Hamlet a little bit. And for the many things we can observe in the physical universe, science sometimes struggles to come up with an explanation as to what is really going on. How much more mysterious are those things which we cannot

News From Space! A New Segment for Good Heavens!

Oct 14 2024 76 mins  
Instead of just one topic, Wayne and Dan thought it would be fun to cover some current events in the heavens and call it "News from Space" for lack of a better segment title. On this episode they chat about astronauts stuck in space, some strange exoplanets, what it really means to be an "earth-like" planet, and there's even a black hole that shoots out a Death-Star like jet of pla

Many Worlds, Mormonism, and Multiverses Part Two

Oct 07 2024 35 mins  
Part two with former 4th-generation Latter-day Saint James K. Walker and astrophysicist and Cosmologist Dr. Luke Barnes, plus some bonus surprise guests. Make sure you listen to Part One for fuller context of our conversation! There is a reason the Gospel has often been referred to as "the Greatest Story ever told." Here on part two, we flesh out a little bit more into the ideas of