A LISTENING SELECTION
Hear scientists, historians, and people of faith ask what evidence can establish and what interpretation adds. Evolution, cosmology, neuroscience, and lived religious identity appear here without being made to say the same thing.
An episode can be a first meeting with a voice that feels like good company. If a show resonates, you may choose to keep listening beyond this selection. Each episode here has been chosen on its own merits; the wider show is yours to explore.
10 selected episodes
Podcast EpisodeJim Stump; Colin Hoogerwerf
Shows how educators make room for the emotional and religious stakes of learning evolution, not only the scientific content.
Podcast EpisodeJim Stump; Colin Hoogerwerf
Connects archaeological and evolutionary accounts of Homo sapiens with questions about symbolic life, sacred landscapes, and relationship to the divine.
Podcast EpisodeKate Wong with Art Woods and Marty Martin
Scientific American editor Kate Wong traces the changing evidence for human origins, including African emergence, the many hominin lineages that once coexisted, fossil and DNA discoveries, and the interbreeding that complicates older straight-line accounts of evolution.
Podcast EpisodeWonderology
Fine-tuning questions are heard as scientific limits and philosophical possibilities rather than a proof text. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.
Podcast EpisodeWonderology
A produced conversation opens consciousness without requiring a nondual or idealist destination. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.
Podcast EpisodeJustin Brierley with Mike McHargue and Benn Watts
Mike McHargue recounts losing inherited Christian faith, becoming atheist, and later constructing a faith compatible with science and religious experience, while atheist Benn Watts engages his account.
Podcast EpisodeStephen Barr; The Catholic Scientist
A physicist speaks from within Catholic belonging about disciplinary integrity and faith. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.
Podcast EpisodeJonathan Lunine; The Catholic Scientist
Professional vocation and faith are heard together without treating research as religious evidence. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.
Podcast EpisodeBrad Cooper with Karin Öberg
Harvard astrochemist Karin Öberg explains how scientists study the chemistry of forming planets and the conditions that might support life, then reflects on wonder, uncertainty, and her journey from agnosticism to Catholic faith.
Podcast EpisodeSofia Carozza; The Catholic Scientist
A Catholic scientific conversation holds neural evidence and personhood claims in productive tension. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.