Equinox

Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell

Dr. Robert Carter and producer Joseph Darnell explore the world from a Christian perspective. On our quest, we will discuss science, but a little history and philosophy as well.

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2: Stopping the Sun, Moving the Earth

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02/26/20 • 0 min

Geocentrism is a scientific theory that could have left mankind in the 'dark ages', but in the end it still held civilizations back for thousands of years. Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell explore why it took people throughout history so long to figure out that the earth moves, and the implications this has had for all of science up to the present. How we arrived at heliocentrism (actually, the universe isn’t heliocentric either!) will possibly surprise you!

Geocentrism

Heliocentrism?

Copernicus, the man who stopped the sun and moved the world

Galileo

Newton

Calendar systems (scroll down to the subsection titled “Calendar Systems”)

Cathedrals as observatories, meridians

Nobody ever put to death over scientific views, Giordano Bruno and Michael Servetus included

Christopher Columbus was actually wrong, the urban myth of the “Dark Ages” and flat earth

Protestant Reformation

Protestantism and the pursuit of Science

Minor people we mention: Gregor Mendel, Tycho Brahe, Galen, Bede, Nicholas of Cusa, Eratosthenes, Boëthius

Here’s an interesting quote from Russel Grigg’s Exploring the God Question 1. The Cosmos, Part 2 (Multiverses):

“Furthermore, it’s tiresome to see atheists point to the immensity of the universe as if it were news. However, this truth has been well known for almost all the history of the Church. E.g. the Roman Christian philosopher Boëthius (AD c. 480–524/525), in prison awaiting trial and execution for an unjust charge of treason, wrote The Consolation of Philosophy, an imaginary dialogue between himself and ‘Lady Philosophy’. She points out that just as the earth is just a point in space, how much more insignificant is any glory of any of its inhabitants:

As you have heard from the demonstrations of the astronomers, in comparison to the vastness of the heavens, it is agreed that the whole extent of the earth has the value of a mere point; that is to say, were the earth to be compared to the vastness of the heavenly sphere, it would be judged to have no volume at all.

This was one of the most widely read and influential books in the West during most of the Middle Ages. So churchmen were well aware of how tiny the earth is, without considering it the slightest threat to faith. Furthermore, it was exactly this consideration that led some medieval scientists to propose that it was the tiny earth that rotated rather than the immense cosmos revolving around it.”

Retrograde motion

Frames of reference

James Cook, the Transit of Venus, Frederick Bessel, and the first measurement of parallax

Big bang, Alan Guth, etc., see Evolution’s Achilles’ Heels

Refuting Flat Earth

Refuting Absolute Geocentrism

74: The Science of Christmas

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12/10/21 • 48 min

Rob and Joseph wax eloquent and speculative on various aspects of the Christmas story. Have you ever wondered who the Magi were, where they came from, and what was the nature of that star that they saw? Fear no, they go there. What about the genetics of Jesus? Yeah, they speculate about that also, hopefully without getting into too much heretical hot water. Finally, they discuss the physics of Santa Claus, attempting to cast doubt on that aged story, but then they bring in the big guns: four physicists who defend the Santa story using science...or did they?

73: 2021 IgNobel Prizes

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11/24/21 • 55 min

Rob and Joseph are back with a fun discussion about the all-new rocket technology, and present their take of the 2021 IgNobel prizes! Enjoy!

72: A Hot Cup of Joe

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11/10/21 • 57 min

Rob and Joseph have been enjoying hot coffee and tea lately and it got Rob thinking about the science of caffeine and flavorings. They discuss what makes a lethal dosage of substances, whether stimulants like caffeine are bad for people, and much more!

71: 2021 Nobel Prizes

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10/29/21 • 43 min

Dr. C. and Joseph Darnell explore the 2021 Nobel Prizes—who won what and why? Afterward, they discuss some of the coolest technologies “of the future” that you’ve never heard of, including robotic bees and 100% recyclable wind turbines! All this and more in this week’s episode of Equinox!

70: What’s a Computer? Part 2

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10/13/21 • 47 min

Rob continues to review the origins of modern computers and together Joseph and Rob are just astonished how far technology has come in the last 50 years. Dr. Carter admits it’s really hard to understand computer sciences and think like an engineer.

History of the transistor
Moore’s Law
The Commodore 64 Rob’s nomination for the “Best Computer Ever”
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69: What’s a Computer? Part I

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09/29/21 • 50 min

Joseph and Rob discuss what insects they’ve seen over the seasons of 2021, give a little update about their bees’ behavior, and in their fascinating main topic, they discuss the origins of the modern computer! Rob takes us back a few centuries to start with the fundamental innovations that allude to the seemingly miraculous technologies we take for granted.

68: Pants on Fire

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09/23/21 • 47 min

French inventor made a trap to catch hornets to save his bees! Someone discovered that dogs have a heat sense detector! Social scientists inadvertently lied in a study about honesty! For the main discussion, Dr. Carter tells us about Ernst Haeckel’s diabolical fraud.

[The Israelites: Forging of a Nation[(https://creation.com/israelites-forging-of-a-nation)
Breaching the Weismann Barrier
‘Owls’ Creation.com Article Podcast (Ep. #171)
French beekeeper tackling Asian hornet invasion with home-made trap
[New sense in dog noses: the ability to detect heat] (https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/new-sense-discovered-dog-noses-ability-detect-heat)
[Landmark and highly cited study about honesty is retracted due to fraud] (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9914493/Landmark-study-honesty-cheating-relied-faked-data.html)
[RetractionWatch.com’s top-10 list of retracted papers] (https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-leaderboard/top-10-most-highly-cited-retracted-papers/) (papers are retracted for errors, fraud, questions about data provenance, public outcry)
Creatorgate
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67: The Dark Side

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09/11/21 • 47 min

Joe and Rob talk about things that should never have been, scientific experiments and ideas that were evil or just egregiously wrong. They use four examples: The Tuskegee long-term syphilis experiments, lobotomy, electroshock therapy, and Nazi science (and how much of US technology is based upon it today). This might be a tough listen, but education is sometimes sobering.

Tuskegee experiment
Lobotomy
Ernest Hemmingway
Operation Paperclip
Operation Paperclip: the secret intelligence program that brought NAZI scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen
Kurt Heinrich Debus, first director of NASA and an ardent SS member during the war
Wernher von Braun worked at Peenemünde, where they built the V2 rocket - - -
Photosynthesis: Improbable to the Max
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1: The Greatest Theory Ever

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02/19/20 • 0 min

In this first episode, Joe and Rob explore Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity and explain how it is the single greatest engine of scientific prediction ever made by man. The theory of gravity also interconnects with a number of other interesting subjects, which they will touch on briefly, basically giving them fodder for a slew of future episodes.

Equinox podcast is dedicated to Sir Isaac Newton.

Rapid fire subjects:

An explanation of the word Equinox from Encyclopedia Britannica

Human Races

Geocentrism

Galileo...

...was right but for the wrong reasons

Columbus was just plain wrong

Genetics

Film: Darwin: the Voyage that Shook the World

Under construction: BiblicalGenetics.com (stay tuned!)

Viruses