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- 4 days ago28 min
Get Thee Up Into the High Mountain (Isaiah 40:9)
Mountain peaks and summits make for excellent platforms for observing the glory of God. How might the summit of the dormant volcano of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, with its thirteen active telescopes operated by 11 different countries, point us to the glory of God and what God has done for us in Jesus? Thumbnail image: The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The telescope is operated by the East Asian Observatory https://www.eaobservatory.org/jcmt/public/gallery/images/ Good Heavens! is a production of Watchman Fellowship, Inc., a nonprofit educational research ministry. Check out Watchman Fellowship's free Profile articles! The profiles provide an insightful analysis of beliefs, individuals, worldviews, and other religions impacting our world today. Charles DarwinNaturalismScientismDeconstructionAtheismRichard DawkinsNihilism Additional Resources: FREE: We are also offering a subscription to our 4-page bimonthly Profiles here: www.watchman.org/Free PROFILE NOTEBOOK: Order the complete collection of Watchman Fellowship Profiles (two volumes totalling over 700 pages -- from Astrology to Zen Buddhism) in either printed or PDF formats here: www.watchman.org/Notebook SUPPORT: Help us create more content like this. Make a tax-deductible donation here: www.watchman.org/Give <p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-size: 18px; l
- May 1, 20261h 22m
The Wonders of the Moon!
This month, Wayne and Dan go to the moon (sort of)! We talk about the historic Artemis II mission, discuss some scientific mysteries about the moon, read some moon poetry and scripture which mentions the moon. We also, hopefully, make sense of how we see the moon pointing us to the glory of God in Christ. Image credits in the thumbnail. Moon and Earth - Artemis II crew and NASA. Astronaut cake topper, Jennifer Blevins. Links n things we mentioned in the broadcast. NASA Press Conference Artemis II https://www.youtube.com/live/_43Ei9eQVww Dan's recent article on the moon. https://watchmanblog.substack.com/p/the-discarded-timepiece Artemis II photographs of the moon and earth https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-multimedia/ <p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; color: #000000; font-family: 'ABC Oracle Plus Variable', -apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, 'Segoe UI', roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 337; letter-spacing: -0.18px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-line; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initia
- Mar 31, 20261h 27m
What in the World is a Platypus Galaxy?!
Come and see!Yet another discovery courtesy of the James Webb Space Telescope, something over which astronomers are presently puzzling!A star? A quasar? A galaxy? It's not something that astronomers have ever seen before. Like the Platypus, these objects are hard to categorize. How does this latest curious heavenly object remind us of the One who created them?Wayne and Dan have some ideas! Join us!Wayne's article on the PlatypusAccessible YouTube video on the Platypus Galaxies 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 https://patron.podbean.com/goodheavens. This goes to Wayne Spencer. If you would like to give to the ministry of Watchman Fellowship or to Daniel Ray, you can donate at https://www.watchman.org/daniel. Donations to Watchman are tax deductible.
- Feb 23, 202620 min
Too Many Galaxies For God?
Recently, cosmologist Dr. Sean Carroll suggested that the amount of galaxies in our universe is not something we would expect if God created the universe. But how does Dr. Carroll know what we should expect a God-created universe to look like? That's a question we explore on this month's episode of Good Heavens! Come and see! The thumbnail image of this month's episode is an enormous field of galaxies, thousands of them, released by NASA and the ESA last April. You can read more about this stunning image here. With the exception of the orbs of light with diffraction spikes (stars in our own Milky Way galaxy) every dot of light is a galaxy with tens or hundreds of billions of stars! (Psalm 19:1-6; Isaiah 40:26; Gen. 1:14-16). Watch the Alex O'Connor and Sean Carroll in conversation on YouTube.+ Email us and let us know how you're enjoying the podcast! Psalm1968@gmail.com. Good Heavens! is a production of Watchman Fellowship, Inc. Visit our website today at Watchman.org. 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 https://patron.podbean.com/goodheavens. This goes to Wayne Spencer. If you would like to give to the ministry of Watchman Fellowship or to Daniel Ray, you can donate at https://www.watchman.org/daniel. Donations to Watchman are tax deductible.
- Jan 15, 20261h 14m
Meerkats, Comets, and the Glory of God!
What do meerkats and comets have in common? Well, besides both being created by God, which is no small thing, you'll have to just listen to this month's episode of Good Heavens! to find out the answer! If we told you everything in the show notes, you might not end up listening! This month, Wayne and Dan give some updates on the science of interstellar comet 3i-ATLAS, talk about meerkats, stars, and a fantastic new discovery announced in December of last year that has astronomers' heads spinning! Come and see! Good Heavens! is a production of Watchman Fellowship, Inc. Visit WATCHMAN.ORG today for more information on apologetics, cults, the occult, world religions, and many other non-Christian worldviews. And if you are enjoying Good Heavens! consider checking out (for free!) Watchman Fellowship's other premier podcast Apologetics Profile! 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 https://patron.podbean.com/goodheavens. This goes to Wayne Spencer. If you would like to give to the ministry of Watchman Fellowship or to Daniel Ray, you can donate at https://www.watchman.org/daniel. Donations to Watchman are tax deductible.
- Dec 15, 202530 min
The Fascination and Enigma of Interstellar Object 3i-ATLAS!
We have another interstellar visitor in the solar system, something truly out of this (particular) world! Is it an alien spacecraft? Is it a comet? A sign of the end of the world? An asteroid? Demons just messing with us? What's All the Gas About? Here on this episode of Good Heavens! we cut through all the viral hype and make some biblical sense of this wondrous interstellar object. Come and see! NASA fast facts on this mysterious object: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/ Thumbnail image credit: NASA 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 https://patron.podbean.com/goodheavens. This goes to Wayne Spencer. If you would like to give to the ministry of Watchman Fellowship or to Daniel Ray, you can donate at https://www.watchman.org/daniel. Donations to Watchman are tax deductible.
- Nov 15, 20251h 40m
Mission Control "Houston" with Mission Control Specialists Mark and Rita Schrock
This is Mark and Rita's first-ever podcast interview! The Schrocks are fellow Christians and engineer specialists at NASA's Mission Control in Houston, Texas and share with us what working at Mission Control is like. We talk about everything from landing on the moon, to Space Shuttle missions and even what they think of aliens! And of course, we talk about how we believe it all points to the glory of God. Human space exploration is good, but it isn't safe. Mark is the chief design engineer behind the Space Shuttle's Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver which was first performed on STS-114, the first shuttle mission after the tragic loss of Columbia in February of 2003. Twenty-one shuttle missions performed Mark's RPM. Discovery: STS-114, STS-121, STS-116, STS-120, STS-124, STS-119, STS-128, STS-131, STS-133 Atlantis: STS-115, STS-117, STS-122, STS-129, STS-132, STS-135 Endeavor: STS-118, STS-123, STS-126, STS-127, STS-130, STS-134. Dan's full interview with Charlie Duke. <p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; color: #00000
- Nov 1, 202534 min
Unroofing the Roof - Some Thoughts on Jesus as God
How does a short passage in Mark chapter 2 point to Jesus as Lord and God? And what might Jesus' healing of the paralytic say about the nature of the universe and our place within it? Can we trust Mark's account as real history? This is a short audio essay examines these questions in greater detail and hopefully provides us with some encouragement not to be discouraged in times when God seems silent. Thumbnail photo credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI, A. Pagan (STScI)). This is Pismis 24, a small star cluster in the constellation Scorpius, the Scorpion. The "small" mountain peak is over five light years in height - with a single light year being close to 6 trillion miles. That is a rather tall peak. The very One who came under our roof decorated this and all the other wondrous entities in the vaulted roof of the heavens. He who names and numbers all the stars also heals our broken hearts and binds up our wounds (Psalm 147). 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 https://patron.podbean.com/goodheavens. This goes to Wayne Spencer. If you would like to give to the ministry of Watchman Fellowship or to Daniel Ray, you can donate at https://www.watchman.org/daniel. Donations to Watchman are tax deductible.
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