Episode 038 - Jill Pasteris: Uncertainty and Faith

0:00 Experience as a Christian scientist 1:00 The billion year contact; awe 2:00 Awe and the vast scale of Earth science 3:00 Discoveries never shake faith 4:00 Evolution, randomness, the shortage of provable things 6:00 The bureaucratic mindset: certainty and judgment 7:00 Yucca Mountain, studtite, and uranyl peroxides (Peter Burns, Karrie-Ann Hughes) 8:00 Uranyl chemistry 9:00 Guy Consolmagno's thought experiment on planetary atmospheres 10:00 Uranyl peroxide buckyballs... 11:00 NOT in the initial fate and transport model for Yucca Mountain 12:00 Real life is lack of certainty 13:00 Where we'd put uranium if we had to... 14:00 Hanford, Washington and uranium migration 15:00 Phosphates as immobilizers 16:00 Humans and squirrels: digging stuff up to bury it again 17:00 Kirby Runyon 18:00 Difficult conversations 20:00 The Bible 21:00 Cyclic nature of human history, scriptural history 22:00 The second millennium history of reaction, after reaction, after reaction against hypocrisy 23:00 Secularism and the irreligious right 24:00 Progressive movement as a para-Christian critique of society 26:00 Modern psychology and spirituality: Fulton Sheen's image of the psychologist pulling Christian truths out of the garbage can and passing them off as discoveries 29:00 The need for God 30:00 Companions on the way 31:00 Providence