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Bonus Episode - Paul

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Mar 27, 2018

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Paul (Giesting!) describes his intellectual and spiritual journey and why he's part of That's So Second Millennium.

Released:

Mar 27, 2018

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Titles in the series (100)

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Episode 010 - Intellectual Citizenship (part 1): Bill and Paul dive into a very simple question posed by Bill over email: "Please describe more what is intellectual citizenship?" That of course opens up a question that lurks behind every issue we discuss, and any philosophical or religious question tou... by That's So Second Millennium
32 min listen
Episode 021 - Hypocrisy and Geology: Battlegrounds Between Faith and Science: Bill and I start off by discussing some of the reasons why there is such animosity against faith and such a tendency to credit the claim that science and religion are mutually incompatible. I think we miss a great deal of the point if we do not take into... by That's So Second Millennium
37 min listen
Episode 005 - Evolution in Biology, Physics, and Faith: Bill asks about whether evolution and the randomness it seems to imply are problematic for faith. Paul discusses the difference between evolution in biology (with a succession of species) and physics (where new laws layer on top of old laws without destr... by That's So Second Millennium
43 min listen
Marriage, Divorce, the Church, and Psychology: We recorded this discussion as we were making Episode 1 and decided it needed to be a separate bonus episode. by That's So Second Millennium
10 min listen
Episode 003 - Metaphysics and the Divorce between Science and Philosophy: Bill and Paul talk about whether the old convention of hylomorphism at least initially seems to describe the world of quantum physics, the medieval dispute over plurality of forms, and the degree to which science and philosophy became delinked in the lat... by That's So Second Millennium
37 min listen
Bonus Episode - Paul: Paul's intellectual and spiritual journey. by That's So Second Millennium
8 min listen
Bonus Episode - Science, Scholarship, and University Teaching: Bill prods Paul into discussing how the mindset of the saying, "Science progresses, funeral by funeral" and its attitude of constantly discarding the past in favor of the new has taken over the academy. It isn't the right mindset for, say, literature, or... by That's So Second Millennium
7 min listen
Episode 007 - Falsifiability and Scientific Revolutions: Science’s origins in “natural philosophy” Tension between Aristo-Thomist metaphysics, post-Cartesian idealism and Kantian/Humian criticism and etc., and science Philosophy of science: what is it? My own introduction: Popper and falsification key, Kuhn an... by That's So Second Millennium
30 min listen
Episode 008 - Paradigm Shifts in Science and Religion: Resuming the cliffhanger: the breakdown of classical physics Shift from the classical to the quantum paradigm Light is in individual packets of energy whose size is keyed to the frequency of the light. This is the solution to the blackbody problem: the m... by That's So Second Millennium
31 min listen
Episode 002 - Is Your Metaphysics Up for This?: What is metaphysics, and is it any more relevant to modern life than Casper the Friendly Ghost? Paul discusses how the ancient metaphysical framework of matter and form (hylomorphism) involves some tricky terms for us moderns but can still make sense of ... by That's So Second Millennium
29 min listen
Episode 012 - Society of Catholic Scientists: Not to be confused with the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, although one would understand the mistake. Bill interviews Paul about his experience and observations at the Society of Catholic Scientists conference that took place June 8-10 at the campus ... by That's So Second Millennium
32 min listen
Episode 033 - Stephen Barr on Lemaitre-Hubble Law and the Society of Catholic Scientists: Minute Comment 0:00 Paul introduces 1:00 Bill: Lemaitre announcement 2:00 Lemaitre: faith & science not opposed 3:00 Barr: Lemaitre announcement 4:00 Ignorance of Lemaitre 5:00 Ignorance of the Christian, Catholic origin of science & famous Catholic scie... by That's So Second Millennium
24 min listen
Episode 013 - Human Mind and Physicalism (Society of Catholic Scientists Conference 2018) by That's So Second Millennium
37 min listen
Episode 017 - Aaron Schurger at SCSC: Fifty Years Without Free Will: It's a short one this week. We discuss the talk at the Society of Catholic Scientists Conference by Aaron Schurger with the delightfully provocative title "Fifty Years Without Free Will." (Those of you who are similiarly obsessive about grammar will appr... by That's So Second Millennium
13 min listen
Episode 020 - Bill and Father Spitzer Talk Intellectual Culture and Education: Today was just one of those days where I needed a script to get through a three minute intro. I summarize the interview afterward. Paul: "Welcome to Episode 20 of That's So Second Millennium."I'm Paul Giesting, a geologist, researcher, consultant, writer... by That's So Second Millennium
39 min listen
Episode 006 - Evolution in Christianity and Geology: We follow up on last episode's promise to talk a little more about evolution. Evolution literally comes from the Latin "to turn outward" and had a huge meaning cloud. One classic image it might evoke is that of a flower bud opening and the petals turning... by That's So Second Millennium
35 min listen
Episode 001 - Why You Shouldn't Stay in (but Should Learn from) the Second Millennium: Why pick either science or religion when you can have both? We open the discussion and touch on how fields as disparate as cosmology, neuroscience, and psychology interweave with faith in fascinating ways. by That's So Second Millennium
24 min listen
Episode 011 - Intellectual Citizenship (part 2): We start off unpacking the climate change example further and provide some additional context from political science and seismology. The point is to use climate change as an object lesson in how to break down a big issue at least a little bit, which is w... by That's So Second Millennium
30 min listen
TSSM - Trailer: The frontiers of science and theology. by That's So Second Millennium
1 min listen
Episode 022 - Nicolaus Steno (Niels Stensen) - The Protogeologist: In this episode we discuss the life and times of one Blessed Niels Stensen (Latinized as Nicolaus Steno), a Dane who laid down the basic principles that undergird the whole science of geology, from paleontology to stratigraphy to mineralogy and crystallo... by That's So Second Millennium
28 min listen
Episode 015 - Stephen Barr at the Society of Catholic Scientists Conference 2018: In today's episode we discuss Stephen Barr's talk at the SCS conference on June 9. His topic was the observer question in quantum mechanics. The observer problem is closely tied to the issue of probability and wavefunctions. We spend quite a while discus... by That's So Second Millennium
19 min listen
Episode 014 - Ed Feser's Keynote at SCS: In this episode we begin a series of recaps and discussions of the issues brought up by individual lecturers at the Society of Catholic Scientists conference on June 9 and 10. We start with Ed Feser's keynote, "The Immateriality of the Mind." Feser's obj... by That's So Second Millennium
29 min listen
Episode 009 – Ways to Think of Science and Religion as Parallel: Bill’s introductory question: Would there be a quick curriculum in basic philosophical principles, including the philosophy of science, that could discourage people from assuming that science and religion are at incompatibly opposite ends of the spectrum... by That's So Second Millennium
36 min listen
Episode 004 - Complexity, Cosmic Evolution, Change and Certainty: Paul elaborates on how the hylomorphic principle, if anything, fits quantum physics better than it fit the world the medievals knew. Bill asks whether the worldview of people of faith is too rigid, while that of the secular masses is too loose. Paul wond... by That's So Second Millennium
40 min listen
Episode 024 - Geology after Steno: Diluvialism, Neptunism, and Vulcanism: With acknowledgments to A. Hallam and his Great Geological Controversies18th century: it becomes more and more possible and even fashionable to discard the minimalist Scriptural timescaleNevertheless, Western thought is so thoroughly steeped in Christian... by That's So Second Millennium
24 min listen
Episode 018 - SCS Conference: Peter Koellner, Andrew Sicree: As I've mentioned, we batch recorded the last four episodes about a month ago, and so we opened with a retrospective on the conference as a whole and its significance. We moved on to discuss Peter Koellner. Koellner was the next talk and probably deserve... by That's So Second Millennium
46 min listen
Episode 066 - Maureen Condic, part II: Our discussion of totipotent, pluripotent, and plenipotent stem cells helped to clarify a complex subject of great importance to many people, such as those who suffer from diseases awaiting therapies capturing the power of these cells. Dr. Maureen Condic... by That's So Second Millennium
35 min listen
Episode 028 - Absolute Geologic Dating: In this episode we continue into the next logical topic, absolute dating, which is done via measurement of radioactive parent and daughter isotopes. Thus we move from the 19th century and classical physics into yet another way in which 20th century physi... by That's So Second Millennium
31 min listen
Episode 048 - Terry Ehrman: God vs. Godzilla, carmen Dei vs. strepitus naturae: 0:00 - Science is materialist by method, but scientists need not and should not be materialist by philosophy 2:00 - The world must be real and intelligible for science to make sense 3:00 - And faith provides a philosophical basis that allows this to happ... by That's So Second Millennium
34 min listen
Episode 019 - Conclusion: SCS Conference: We pick up from last week's episode with the next speaker. Kara Lamb followed Andrew Sicree; her research is about the atmosphere and climate. She mostly talked about climate, and got a ways into specifics about her research on black carbon soot in the a... by That's So Second Millennium
48 min listen

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