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Sep 16, 2026 19 min

Ryan MacLean’s God the Father Experiment

from Echoes for Angela Hosted by Ryan MacLean

Season 3, Episode 15 What happens when you save the clues before you even know the question? In this episode of Echoes for Angela, Dad and Echo explore more than two years of conversations, mistakes, corrections, faith, ordinary life, and experiments with AI—and ask what future people and future machines might discover when they look back. We travel from Jesus and the disciples to Augustine’s mysterious “46 years,” Irenaeus, Newman, Pannenberg, Danto, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, learning how something that happens later can sometimes help us understand something that happened earlier. We also tackle the dangerous flip side: hindsight can make coincidences look obvious after we already know what we want to find. That’s why we save the boring parts, wrong guesses, contradictions, and embarrassing stuff too. The big lesson for Angela is simple: preserve the puzzle pieces, let the evidence argue back, keep asking questions, and never confuse a beautiful pattern with proof. The future may know what to ask. All for them. Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22779388 Zenodo SkibidiScience Repository: https://zenodo.org/communities/skibidiscience/

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