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Cyclones and Supernovae
Air date: 05-06-2008
Jeff Zweerink, Dave Rogstad, Kenneth Samples, and Joe Aguirre

• Discussion:
  • Why would an all-powerful, benevolent God allow deadly storms?
  • 22,000 Reportedly Dead, 41,000 Missing after Catastrophic Myanmar Cyclone, Associated Press, May 6, 2008.
  • Difference between moral evil and natural evil
  • Resources:
  • Can God Intervene? How Religion Explains Natural Disasters, by Gary Stern
  • Faith and Reason, by Ronald H. Nash
• Discoveries
• Type Ia supernovae as standard candles
• Rasmus Voss and Gijs Nelemans, "Discovery of the progenitor of the type Ia supernova 2007on," Nature 451 (February 14, 2008): 802-804.
• "Supercomputer To Simulate Extreme Stellar Physics," ScienceDaily (May 3, 2008).
• Resource:
• Creation as Science, by Hugh Ross
• Gray dust a possible source of supernova dimming
  • Philip A. Bland, "Small-Scale Observations Tell a Cosmological Story," Science 320 (April 4, 2008): 61 62.
• Theology segment
  • Ken responds to the Institute for Progressive Christianity's announcement of Pluralism Sunday
    • "Pluralism Sunday: Celebrating the many paths to God at Pentecost-May 11, 2008"
    • Resources:
    • Without a Doubt, by Kenneth R. Samples
    • What's so Great about Christianity? by Dinesh D'Souza
• Call-in questions
  • Joe from Bismarck, ND:
  • What place does macroevolution have (if any) in RTB's creation model?
  • Roger from Portland, ME:
  • Comment on nations' ability to cope with natural disasters relative to their acceptance of a Christian worldview (and the scientific advance that comes from it)
  • Would a slower rotation rate on Earth be problematic for advanced life?
  • Resource:
  • What if the Moon Didn't Exist? by Neil F. Comins
  • Does Christianity alone teach salvation by grace?
  • Do other religions teach fine-tuning?
  • Resource:
  • The Creator and the Cosmos", 3rd ed., by Hugh Ross
• Email questions
• Daniel D. asks:
  • How far into space can current planet detecting methods be reliable?
  • How many galaxies are inside this distance from Earth?
  • What is the weakest part of the Day-Age theory from RTB's perspective?
  • Resources:
  • A Matter of Days,, by Hugh Ross
  • The Genesis Debate, by Hugh Ross and Archer Gleason, ed. David Hagopian
• Tim S. asks:
• If multiverse theory is true, how would that affect the ability of the scientific enterprise to give an accurate picture of reality?
• Resource:
• The Cosmic Jackpot, Paul Davies