Ep 14: Paul Wallace & The Stars Beneath Us

The Christian Transhumanist Podcast

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Paul Wallace is a professor of physics and astronomy, a minister, and the author of the upcoming book: "Stars Beneath Us: Finding God in the Evolving Cosmos". In this episode, we talk about the exhilaration and vertigo of living in expanding cosmos, and how this both humbles us, and helps us rise to the challenge of suffering.

Paul's book: Stars Beneath Us: Finding God in the Evolving Cosmos and website
Paul's story: Growing up baptist, becoming atheist, finding way back to faith...and doubt!
Micah was a teenage existentialist
What Job and science fiction have in common
How "zooming out" (with science, imagination, the future) helps us deal with suffering
How atheists help us get rid of idols
God is incarnational and not conceptual
Science Mike on the value of prayer — even if you don't believe
The three proven methods of neuro-enhancement: diet, exercise, prayer or meditation
Why believing in God is essential to addiction recovery
Self-deception cuts both ways
Inescapably a theist
The controversial idea of a direction of evolution
What is the future of humanity?
Good will win
How MLK's apocalypse helps us loosen our grip
Job found himself within the cosmos that God loved
The Bible is Shakespeare, not Aesop's Fables

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