Podcasts by Thats So Second Millennium

Ep 147 - Daniel Shields on Nature and Nature’s God from 2023-06-30T10:10:17

Paul felt it was important to put Daniel's book title in the episode title, but Bill's suggested title is too good not to place somewhere:

TSSM: NEW BOOK EXPLORES MEANING IN MOTION

Ep 146 - TSSM Takes a Break from 2022-11-21T20:25:33

1. The co-hosts announce that the TSSM podcast, now posting our 146th episode, will begin a hiatus, but all programs and show notes will continue to be Paul Seungoh Chung to discuss how people can converse constructively about Go...
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Ep 144 - Matthew&Chantal of 5th Place on Emotional Fitness from 2022-09-23T17:18:45

This month's episode focuses on the psychology of emotions and the need to respect them. On the one hand we do not want to be controlled by negative emotions, but on the other, we cannot simply ...

Ep 143 - Scott Gazzoli and Spirit over Show from 2022-08-30T17:46:05

For August Paul interviewed Scott Gazzoli of the Causing the Effect podcast. He's a wealth manager in Brooklyn who has been through a long and harsh spiritual journey. We touch on fitness and th...

Ep 142 - Matt Swaim: Symbols and Substance, in Faith and Online from 2022-07-31T22:53:22

1. Matt Swaim is the co-host of the Son Rise Morning Show, heard Monday t...

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Ep 141 - Louis Albarran and the Faith of Real People from 2022-06-30T15:52:06

1. Paul and Bill spoke with Louis Albarran, associate professor of theology at Holy Cross College in Notre Dame, IN. Albarran ...
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Bonus - Society of Catholic Scientists 2022 from 2022-06-06T10:16:19

Quick hit running down the SCS Conference for 2022 at Mundelein Seminary outside Chicago. The conference theme was the environment.

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Ep 139 - Pondering Big Issues Powered by Uranium from 2022-04-30T20:19:56

1. In this episode, Paul and Bill situate themselves geographically, updating each other on their latest activities and changes in locale. Pau...

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Ep 138 - Darcia Narvaez, Insights About Humanity for a Suffering World from 2022-03-28T14:27:39

1. Darcia Narvaez, who holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Minnesota, is a prolific public intellectual ...
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Ep 137 - Francis Bacon and the New Organon from 2022-02-28T16:10:20

As the emcee noted at a concert here in Lander, a Musical History Tour, the Renaissance--the period when Europe revived its intellectual life by re-evaluating the writings of the Hellenistic pas...

Ep 136 - Deacon Harold: Life Rich in Reality, Reality Rich in Life from 2022-01-31T18:54:36

Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers (deaconharold.com) is a Catholic deacon and public speaker. Bill and I had the privilege of interviewing him earlier this month....

Ep 135 - A Visit to the Universe of Fr. Robert Spitzer, SJ from 2021-12-20T09:30:14

1. Paul and Bill were privileged to talk with Father Robert Spitzer, SJ, the founding director of the Magis Center in Orange County, California.
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Ep 134 - Bill on Journalism and Truth with Franciscan Dave from 2021-11-22T22:34:26

David Seitz, OFS, is a long-time professed member of the Secular Franciscan Order who holds an M.A. in theology from Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit. He has written a book, available on line, c...

Cybersecurity Bonus Episode with Matthew Cloud from 2021-10-28T19:12:26

Here's our pre-conversation with Matthew Cloud prior to the full interview. In this segment we talk a little bit about the Ubuntu distro, the ubuntu philosophy of computer science, and 4th and 5...

Episode 133 - Cybersecurity Education as a Vocation with Matthew Cloud from 2021-10-05T22:32:28

1. Paul and Bill discussed computer education and cyber-security with Matthew Cloud, professor of the practice in the Jordan Wales, PhD, who teaches theology at Hillsdale College in Michigan, spoke with Paul and Bill about his research at the Listen

Episode 130 - Natasha Toghramadjian’s Research into Earth-Shaking Impacts from 2021-08-09T20:20:44

1. Welcome to this 130th episode of our podcast. Here’s a lively conversation between two geoscientists—testifying to the opportunities for Society of Catholic Scientists (SCS) members to enjo...
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Bonus Episode - WOFI Faith&Science Summit from 2021-08-08T09:44:31

Word on Fire will be holding a Faith and Science Summit August 9-12 (starting tomorrow!). It will feature at least nine speakers, including the SCS' own Jonathan Lunine and Karin Oberg. Among th...

Bonus Episode July 2021 from 2021-07-26T05:00

Paul gives an update on his move to Wyoming to take a faculty position at Wyoming Catholic College. We are looking forward to bringing you more Society of Catholic Scientists conference speaker ...

Episode 129 - Economics of Higher Purpose with Anjan Thakor from 2021-07-12T05:02

An intriguing interview with a business school professor from Paul's alma mater, Anjan Thakor of the Washington University in St. Louis <...

Episode 128 - Radio Astronomer Signals Wonderment of ET Life from 2021-06-28T05:00

1. Paul and Bill interviewed Timothy Dolch, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics at Hillsda...
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Episode 127 - SCS Meeting 2021 from 2021-06-08T09:16:16

Paul and Bill provide an on the scene review of the Society of Catholic Scientists Conference 2021 at the Washington, D.C. Hilton. The themes were Extraterrestrial Life, Artificial Intelligence,...

Episode 126 - Society of Catholic Sciences Preview with Stephen Barr from 2021-05-31T11:15:10

1. Paul and Bill welcomed Stephen Barr, Ph.D., president of the Society of Catholic Scientists ...
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Episode 125 - Chris Baglow and Jay Martin (rerun, full episode) from 2021-05-11T20:53:58

1. Paul and Bill are proud to present this encore episode featuring the Science and Religion Initiative featuring the Listen

Episode 118 - "I Know What You're Thinking" from 2021-01-27T10:15:32

1. Paul and Bill talk here about a mix of psychology and societal dilemmas in light of Catholic values.
2. Aida Ramos, Ph.D., is an associate professor of economics at the University of Dallas. She r...
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Episode 116 - Paying Attention or Paying a Price from 2020-12-28T05:00

In this last episode of 2020, Bill and I discuss how attention, focus, and distraction are shaping us and being engineered in our media-saturated culture. We can't pay attention to everything, a...

Episode 115 - Aida Ramos: How the Big Picture Sheds Light on Economics from 2020-12-14T09:18

1. Our guest, economics professor Dr. Aida Ramos, returned for further conversation after Episode 114. She pointed to wisdom in papal encyclicals from the past that we still need to tap into t...
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Episode 114 - Aida Ramos and A Church Where Economics Counts—For People from 2020-11-23T05:00

1. Paul and Bill spoke with Aida Ramos, Ph.D....

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Episode 113 - US Election 2020 from 2020-11-09T12:48:42

Your TSSM coverage of the 2020 US election with the unique perspective Bill and Paul provide. Be sure to let us know your ideas for the presidential hopeful cage match reality show that we clear...

Episode 112 – A Happy Medium: By What Means? from 2020-10-28T08:32:30

1. Paul and Bill focused on the 2020 elections as a point of tragically little focus in discourse or reasoning—but a good starting point for w...

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Episode 111 - A Catholic Teacher – Dear Old Golden Rule Days from 2020-10-12T05:00

1. Brad Stalcup joins Paul and Bill in this episode to talk about his recent entry into the world of Catholic education. He began teaching religion to high school freshmen and sophomores in th...
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Episode 110 - To Solve Big Problems: Let’s Get Small! from 2020-09-29T09:41:34

1. In this episode, Paul and Bill are back together for a conversation that catches up on past episodes which pondered big problems in science...

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Episode 109 - Psychology&Spirituality of Crisis from 2020-09-14T08:40:29

A solo episode from Paul. These are the notes I used... the audio is balanced differently.

Insight by Bernard Lonergan and 20/20 hindsight.

What else (besides the coronavirus and s...

Episode 108 - Masks, Science, Novelty, and Conservatism from 2020-08-25T10:24:58

or Paving Paradise and the Parking Lots

Bill and Paul discuss attitudes toward masks, and then consider why the science wasn't more settled on the subject long before Covid-19. We discuss...

Episode 107 - Dick Garrett on Kids, Schools, and Teachers from 2020-08-10T09:15:44

This is part 2 of our interview with Richard Garrett, author of  Listen

Episode 104 - Scraping Facts Online: If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Datum from 2020-06-22T05:00

1. At the time of this taping, Paul was in the middle of the Metis “bootcamp” program learning the capabilities, tools, and insights of Richard Doerflinger.
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Episode 102 - Diverse Isolation Stories Could Bring Us Together from 2020-05-25T05:00

Paul and Bill discussed autism—a subject that arose in Paul’s discussion with...

Episode 101 - Pandemics as a Science Problem; Skepticism in a Diseased World from 2020-05-11T05:00

Part 2 of a three part conversation between Paul and Bill, where the main themes are skepticism, Catholic education, the mysterious absence of the Spanish Flu from our historical consciousness p...

Episode 100 - Hemispheres Playing God from 2020-04-27T04:59

1. In this episode we begin with an unscheduled excursion into the realm of the neurobiology of the two hemispheres of the brain and the psychology of reparenting (with nods to our past conver...
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Episode 099 - Secular Franciscans on World’s New Views, Old Values from 2020-04-13T05:05

In this episode, Bill presents excerpts from an interview with fellow Secular Franciscan Tim Short, director of formation for the Indiana Region. They discuss, among other things, St. Francis' a...

Episode 098 - Uncertainty Principles, Principled Uncertainty, and Science in Times of Catastrophe from 2020-03-30T05:00

In this episode, Bill and Paul discuss the coronavirus, economics and risk, and the Listen

Episode 096 - How a Strong Nest Can Lift Society Higher, with Darcia Narvaez from 2020-03-09T05:00

1. We welcome Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D., to the microphone. She is a professor of psyc...
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Episode 095 - Bridges Built by Song, with musician Micki Miller from 2020-02-24T05:00

1. Where can the search for connections between faith and science (that is, between the deeper sense of meaning in life we all crave and the tangible experiences that our five senses tell us a...
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Episode 094 - Maureen Condic (rerun, full interview) from 2020-02-10T05:00

This week, events have forced another "greatest hits" episode, and so we bring you for your convenience the entire Maureen Condic interview from the June 2019 Society of Catholic Scientists meet...

Episode 093 - The Great Divorce between Philosophy and Science from 2020-01-27T05:00

Bill and Paul are both losing their minds with stress this week, so we're glad to just get the episode out. It takes in a bit of philosophy and Paul manages to use some illustrative points from ...

Episode 092 - Scientists and Religion with Dr. Tom Ryba from 2020-01-13T05:00

1. Dr. Thomas Ryba is a senior lecturer and adjunct professor teaching philosophy and religious studies at the Listen

Episode 087 - Fr. Robert Spitzer and Intellectual Culture (rerun) from 2019-11-25T21:33:05

Unfortunately, this week Paul got deathly ill and that prevented us from recording the promised "end of the world" episode. Here instead is a re-edited version of Bill's interview with Fr. Rober...

Episode 086 - Indianapolis Gold Mass from 2019-11-18T05:00

Today's episode is a rundown of the Indianapolis Gold Mass, followed by a short selection of readings from Scripture and a bit about Albert the Great specifically, with a scrap of meditation on ...

Episode 085 - Albert the Great, the Medieval Synthesis, and a Faith That Works from 2019-11-11T05:00

1. Today's episode is getting recorded in a tight slot on Sunday night. Bill is out of town at a workshop on self-publishing and Paul has spent an awful lot of time over the last three days pe...
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Episode 084 - Gold Masses, Politics As Religion, Jordan Peterson from 2019-11-04T05:00

1. This week Bill prods Paul along as he recovers from a massive proposal hangover. This week's episode is the end of a much longer conversation that may or may not otherwise remain on the cut...
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Bonus Episode - SCS and Gold Masses with Jonathan Lunine from 2019-11-01T07:00

Episode 083 - Astrobiology and the Search for Life with Jonathan Lunine from 2019-10-28T06:00

1. Dr. Jonathan Lunine is the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Science and chair of t...
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Episode 082 - Extraterrestrial Life and Biosecurity with Jonathan Lunine from 2019-10-21T06:00

In this week's episode, we discuss the possibility of extraterrestrial life in our own solar system. Dr. Lunine talked about chair of t...

Episode 080 - The Culture of "Science vs. Religion" with Jonathan Lunine from 2019-10-07T06:00

1. Dr. Jonathan Lunine is the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Science and chair of t...
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Episode 079 - Conversion and Witness with Jonathan Lunine from 2019-09-30T06:00

1. Dr. Jonathan Lunine is the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Science and chair of t...
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Episode 078 - Fr. John Hollowell from 2019-09-23T06:00

1. Father John Hollowell is a priest of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. He is well-known for his blog, Listen

Episode 077 from 2019-09-16T06:00

Paul here. A short episode this week. We're taking a little time off to celebrate the milestone of releasing our last SCS 2019 conference speaker interview with Megan Levis last week.

The...

Episode 076 - Megan Levis, part 2 from 2019-09-09T06:00

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Episode 074 - Karin Oberg from 2019-08-26T12:46:29

1. Karin Öberg is Professor of Astronomy and Director of Undergraduate Studies ...
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Episode 073 – Jonathan Lunine from 2019-08-19T06:00

In this episode we have Jonathan Lunine on the podcast, this time talking to him about his own spiritual journey from Judaism to Catholic Christianity, and from the secular surface of life as a ...

Episode 072 - Benjamin Rybicki from 2019-08-12T06:00

1. Dr. Benjamin Rybicki, a member of the Society of Catholic Scientists, is Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Public Health Services at Henry ...
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Episode 071 - Sonsoles de Lacalle from 2019-08-05T06:00

1. Sonsoles de Lacalle, a physician and neuroscientist, has recently taken the position of professor and Chair, Health Science, at California S...
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Episode 070 - Nicanor Austriaco from 2019-07-29T06:00

In today's episode we sit down with Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, a Dominican friar, biologist, and bioethicist on the faculty at Providence College. Similar...

Episode 069 - Fr. Lawrence Machia OSB and Daniel vanden Berk, part II from 2019-07-22T06:00

1. For background on Fr. Machia and Dr. Vanden Berk and this interview, see the show notes for Episode 68.
2. In Episode 69, we mentione...
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Episode 068 - Fr. Lawrence Machia OSB and Daniel vanden Berk, part I from 2019-07-15T06:00

1. Father Lawrence Machia, OSB, is a Benedictine monk at St. Vincent College and Archabbey in Latrobe, PA. T...
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Episode 067 - Maureen Condic, part III from 2019-07-08T06:00

1. The conversation involving Dr. Condic, Dr. Giesting and Schmitt turned to the complexities of the nation’s debate about abortion. That deba...

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Episode 066 - Maureen Condic, part II from 2019-07-01T06:00

1. 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...
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Episode 065 - Maureen Condic, part I from 2019-06-24T06:00

1. University of Utah’s information page for Dr. Maureen Condic. She is an Associate Professor...
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Episode 064 - SCS 2019 Panel, part II from 2019-06-17T06:00

This is the second part of our panel discussion with two conference attendees, Merissa Newton, a philosophy instructor at the University of New England and Geoffrey Woollard, a cancer researcher...

Episode 063 - SCS 2019 Panel, part I from 2019-06-13T16:12:06

After laboring through some technical problems, here is our first full post-SCS Conference episode.

 We had a panel discussion with two conference attendees, Merissa Newton, a philosophy ...

Bonus - Quick Hits - SCS 2019 from 2019-06-09T22:31:29

Paul and Bill do a quick rundown of the highlights of the SCS Conference. Look for our panel discussion and interviews with conference speakers starting tomorrow!

The audio quality is def...

Episode 062 - Jonathan Lunine SCS Conference Preview from 2019-06-03T09:46:35

We had more insane audio problems on this episode; Paul's audio from Zencastr was unusable. I had to record a new introduction and first question, then splice in our backup recording from Zoom.<...

Episode 061 – Preview of SCS Conference 2019 from 2019-05-27T06:00

Bill and Paul discuss the upcoming SCS conference at Notre Dame, June 7-9, on “What Does It Mean To Be Human?”

Themes we discussed:

The question of human origins:

f...

Episode 060 – What Does It Mean To Be Human? (SCS 2019) from 2019-05-20T06:00

Today we continue our conversation with Stephen Barr about this year’s Society of Catholic Scientists conference, which will feature great speakers discussing the nature of humanity and its boun...

Episode 059 – Origin Story: Society of Catholic Scientists from 2019-05-13T06:00

We welcome Stephen Barr back to the show. We are humbled and delighted to be your podcast hosts for the Society of Catholic Scientists Conference 2019 and hopefully beyond. In that context, toda...

Episode 058 – Let’s Act Like We’re on the Winning Side (Since We Are) from 2019-05-06T06:00

This ended up being an emergency episode Paul recorded solo, since Zencastr ate all but a few minutes at the beginning of each recordi...

Episode 057 – The Best Thing Out There from 2019-04-29T10:05:56

  Apologies for the sound quality today; Zencastr wasn’t working, so we recorded on Zoom, and even then there were problems with the audio especially ...

Episode 056 - Darcia Narvaez on the (other) tragedy of the commons and moral/economic disengagement in civilized society from 2019-04-22T06:00

Today we present the second half of the interview with Darcia Narvaez, social scientist at Notre Dame and a specialist in childhood inculturation, attachment, and bonding issues.

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Episode 055 - Darcia Narvaez on socialization and isolation from 2019-04-15T06:00

Find Darcia's writings and resources across the internet:

Faculty website

Author website

Episode 054 - TSSM Season 2 from 2019-04-08T08:55:27

In this episode we roll out a new format for Season 2.

We recap Season 1 (April 2018 - March 2019) and the three focus areas of the podcast so far:

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Episode 053 - Chris Baglow&Jay Martin: beyond faith&science... faith&everything from 2019-03-31T06:00

0:00 - The question of relativism vs. hyperrationalism

1:00 - God's love is not a "fact" but, say, ...

Bonus Episode - Patricia Bellm: Compartmentalization vs. integration from 2019-03-28T06:00

Compartmentalization by students at Notre Dame

Bill: ethics as a checklist

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Episode 052 - Chris Baglow& Jay Martin: the mission to (re)integrate science& faith from 2019-03-25T06:00

0:30 - McGrath Institute for Church Life: Science & Religion Initiative outreach to high school teachers to integrate science & faith

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Bonus Episode - Patricia Bellm: Bible interpretation from 2019-03-21T06:00

The Bible as an instrument of getting to tell people what to do

Flood geology and cramming one's id...

Episode 051 - Patricia Bellm: Responsibility and control in science and engineering from 2019-03-18T05:00

What do we want to do in this podcast?

Goals for the year

Values of experience, e.g. Mexico: solar ovens from recycled materials

Credit consulting, etc., for exploited women...

Bonus Episode - Patricia Bellm: Miguel from Mexico from 2019-03-16T06:00

The blind man who could see more than his neighbors... asking Patricia about German reunification

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Episode 050 - Craig Lent: decoherence, entropy, and faith from 2019-03-11T05:00

0:00 - Three issues: entropy, decoherence, Schrodinger vs. Dirac equations

2:30 - Schrodinger uses a non-relativistic Hamiltonian, with a p^2/2m kinetic energy

3:00 - Dirac equatio...

Episode 049 - Craig Lent: physics and humanity from 2019-03-04T04:00

0:00 - Introduction

1:00 - The power of physicalism/reductionism: a tremendously powerful method

2:00 - Course on physicalism and Catholicism; Sean Carroll's least hysterical "poet...

Bonus Episode - Patricia Bellm: Marriage& canon law from 2019-02-28T06:00

Episode 048 - Terry Ehrman: God vs. Godzilla, carmen Dei vs. strepitus naturae from 2019-02-25T04:00

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

Episode 047 - Terry Ehrman: theology and ecology, respecting the grammar of natures from 2019-02-18T04:00

0:00 - Introduction 1:00 - Catholic roots 2:00 - Early sense of vocation 4:00 - Lure of biology and ecology, early experiences in the field 9:00 - Swing to doing theology with reference to ecolo...

Episode 046 - Daniel Hinshaw and the frontier between medicine and faith from 2019-02-11T04:00

I started off this part of the interview by asking Daniel about his own journey through life and faith. His early love was history, despite having a f...

Episode 045 - Daniel Hinshaw and the human microcosmos from 2019-02-04T04:00

Today we start a two-part series with Daniel Hinshaw, a professor emeritus of surgery at the University of Michigan, who has come to focus on palliative care for the dying. He sees his work as h...

Episode 044 - The Brain and The Pain of Being Human from 2019-01-28T04:00

In this episode, we expand on our introduction to the brain by discussing some theories - ranging from well-documented to rather speculative - about the specific structures of the brain that are...

Episode 043 - Introduction to the Brain from 2019-01-21T04:00

In this episode, we lay out the basic groundwork for future discussions of the human brain.

The brain we humans have apparently evolved in three stages. This can't help but be a ...

Episode 042 - TSSM in 2019, part 2 from 2019-01-14T04:00

What sense can we make of the ancient and medieval idea that "the soul is the form of the body" in the light of contemporary neuroscience and psychology?

Highlight this idea's differences...

Episode 041 - TSSM in 2019 from 2019-01-07T04:00

Themes we'd like to grapple with in the Year of Our Lord, 2019, and beyond:

Last year was largely about the intellectual challenge leveled by many against religion, and we will c...

Episode 040 - Kirby Runyon: Christian planetary scientist from 2018-12-31T04:00

I had the chance to have an unofficial interview with Kirby Runyon. (Planetary science is a very publicity-heavy field, and planetary scientists often labor under certain constraints regarding t...

Episode 039 - Star of Bethlehem from 2018-12-24T04:00

In this episode we try to give a little workshop on thinking for yourself about a thorny passage in the Bible, specifically what we are to make of this star that supposedly influenced the Magi (...

Episode 038 - Jill Pasteris: Uncertainty and Faith from 2018-12-17T04:00

0:00 Experience as a Christian scientist

1:00 The billion year contact; awe

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Episode 037 - Jill Pasteris: Christian scientist from 2018-12-10T04:00

3:00 Jill's career 5:00 Finding companionship as Christian scientists (not Christian Scientists...that's different...) 7:00 "Spiritual beings having a human experience" 8:00 Bioapatite; clearing...

Bonus Episode - Nicolaus Steno from 2018-12-05T04:00

We talked about Steno quite a bit over the past several months. Briefly, he was a brilliant observational scientist. Brought up in Lutheran Denmark amid the violence of the seventeenth century, he ...

Episode 036 - Anne Hofmeister on Galactic Rotation, Math, and Glass from 2018-12-03T04:00

The times below are continuations from the last episode. My opening is about 1:30, and then we start with galaxy motions at "26:00".

26:00 Gala...

Episode 035 - Anne Hofmeister Shakes Up Earth Science from 2018-11-26T04:00

TSSM goes heavy: hard-hitting journalism from one of science's great controversialists, Anne Hofmeister. Intrigued? Disagree? Write me an email (giesting@alumni.nd.edu) or look her up at Washing...

Episode 034 - Stephen Barr on Why to Be a Religious (and Catholic) Scientist from 2018-11-19T04:00

~0:00 Question: advice for students 1:00 Don't be afraid to be a religious scientist 2:00 Particular issues 3:00 Keep awake to the wonder of the world 4:00 Bill: ignorance of the common man abou...

Episode 033 - Stephen Barr on Lemaitre-Hubble Law and the Society of Catholic Scientists from 2018-11-12T04:00

Minute Comment

0:00 Paul introduces

1:00 Bill: L...

Episode 032 - Science and Saints from 2018-11-05T04:00

Intro: Nobel Prize announcements

Donna Strickland

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Request for Feedback from 2018-10-29T15:24:03

We hope you've enjoyed the podcast so far, and in particular our last two episodes with Guy Consolmagno.

TSSM has been running for over six months now, and we would love to get your feedb...

Episode 031 - Br. Guy Consolmagno: Teaching Science and Human Nature from 2018-10-29T05:00

Paul moves from popular books to Br. Guy's 1990s planetary science textbook, Worlds Apart which Paul switched to in 2015, despite its age, precisely b...

Episode 030 - Br. Guy Consolmagno: Galileo and Carl Sagan from 2018-10-22T05:00

Br. Guy starts with a brief bio of himself as the meteorite curator and now director of the Vatican Observatory. If you aren't familiar with his life ...

Episode 029 - Geological Awe from 2018-10-15T05:00

For a change of pace, we discuss emotions and aesthetics and the sense of awe at the scale of the universe and the planet that we inhabit. Paul discusses the "billion year contacts" at his old s...

Episode 028 - Absolute Geologic Dating from 2018-10-08T05:00

In this episode we continue into the next logical topic, absolute dating, which is done via measurement of radioactive parent and daughter isotopes. T...

Episode 027 - Relative Geologic Dating from 2018-10-01T05:00

In this episode Paul lays out in a more systematic way the methods used in geology since the late 18th century to erect the detailed stratigraphic his...

Episode 026 - The Rejection of Young Earth Creationism in the 19th Century from 2018-09-24T05:00

- Decay and refutation of the Genesis minimalist paradigm for interpreting geology.     - What do contemporary young Earth creationists think happened during this epoch of human history (c. 1700...

Episode 025 - Geology after Steno: Catastrophism, Uniformitarianism, and Fideism from 2018-09-17T05:00

- Competitor paradigms in early geology, their conceptual and thematic relationships to Noah's Flood.     - Catastrophism and its inverse, uniformitarianism Hutton, in some circles (especially ...

Episode 024 - Geology after Steno: Diluvialism, Neptunism, and Vulcanism from 2018-09-10T05:00

With acknowledgments to A. Hallam and his Great Geological Controversies 18th century: it becomes more and more possible and even fashionable to discard the minimalist Scriptural timescale Neve...

Episode 023 - Clericalism, Sex Abuse, Addiction, and Hope from 2018-09-03T19:43:21

Discussion notes: We start to discuss what everyone in the Catholic Church has been discussing for over a month now, which is the new storm of revelations about sexual abuse of children, youths...

Episode 022 - Nicolaus Steno (Niels Stensen) - The Protogeologist from 2018-08-27T13:18:21

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, f...

Episode 021 - Hypocrisy and Geology: Battlegrounds Between Faith and Science from 2018-08-20T05:00

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.

Episode 020 - Bill and Father Spitzer Talk Intellectual Culture and Education from 2018-08-13T05:00

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 Millenn...

Episode 019 - Conclusion: SCS Conference from 2018-08-06T06:00

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 int...

Episode 018 - SCS Conference: Peter Koellner, Andrew Sicree from 2018-07-30T06:00

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 disc...

Episode 017 - Aaron Schurger at SCSC: Fifty Years Without Free Will from 2018-07-23T06:00

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...

Episode 016 - Valerio Scarani at the Society of Catholic Scientists Conference 2018 from 2018-07-16T06:00

Dr. Scarani opened the talk by noting a paper he placed on arxiv.org about Aquinas and the sense that the universe would not be perfect without ran...

Episode 015 - Stephen Barr at the Society of Catholic Scientists Conference 2018 from 2018-07-09T11:23:42

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 ...

Episode 014 - Ed Feser's Keynote at SCS from 2018-07-02T09:00:35

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 F...

Episode 013 - Human Mind and Physicalism (Society of Catholic Scientists Conference 2018) from 2018-06-25T06:00

Intro Overview of the conference - schedule Talks Edward Feser & connections to Bishop Barron Theme: Human Mind & Physicalism Development of the problem and the amazing change in intellectual cl...

Episode 012 - Society of Catholic Scientists from 2018-06-18T06:00

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 Cath...

Episode 011 - Intellectual Citizenship (part 2) from 2018-06-11T05:00

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...

Episode 010 - Intellectual Citizenship (part 1) from 2018-06-04T05:00

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...

Episode 009 – Ways to Think of Science and Religion as Parallel from 2018-05-28T05:00

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 an...

Episode 008 - Paradigm Shifts in Science and Religion from 2018-05-21T05:00

Resuming the cliffhanger: the breakdown of classical physics

Shift from the classical to the quantu...

Bonus Episode - Science, Scholarship, and University Teaching from 2018-05-17T05:00

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 ...

Episode 007 - Falsifiability and Scientific Revolutions from 2018-05-14T05:00

Science’s origins in “natural philosophy”

Tension between Aristo-Thomist metaphysics, post-Cartesian idealism and Kantian/Humian criticism and etc., and science

Philosophy of scien...

Episode 006 - Evolution in Christianity and Geology from 2018-05-07T05:00

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 ...

Episode 005 - Evolution in Biology, Physics, and Faith from 2018-05-01T10:39:45

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 ph...

Episode 004 - Complexity, Cosmic Evolution, Change and Certainty from 2018-04-23T12:40:18

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 rig...

Episode 003 - Metaphysics and the Divorce between Science and Philosophy from 2018-04-16T09:12:11

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 degre...

Episode 002 - Is Your Metaphysics Up for This? from 2018-04-09T09:03:36

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 s...

Episode 001 - Why You Shouldn't Stay in (but Should Learn from) the Second Millennium from 2018-04-02T15:00:29

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 fascin...

Marriage, Divorce, the Church, and Psychology from 2018-04-02T14:31:52

We recorded this discussion as we were making Episode 1 and decided it needed to be a separate bonus episode.

Bonus Episode - Paul from 2018-03-27T11:48:38

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

TSSM - Trailer from 2018-03-27T11:44:19

Is it really true that science and religion are polar opposites? Must one be true and the other false? What must the universe be like if BOTH are true at the same time? Join Bill and Paul, a Cat...