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#441 What the Webb Telescope Tells Us About God’s Creation - Karin Oberg

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Have you seen the recent images from the James Webb Telescope? Catholic convert and Harvard astrochemist, Karin Öberg joins us to examine the recent images and what they tell us about God, the beginnings of our universe, and bug people. Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. Recently, we all got to see some magnificent images from a magnificent piece of technology, the James Webb Telescope. Out there in space, somewhere, looking deep into the past using its various sensors. And this raises a tremendou…

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Cancer's podcast for living, understanding and defending

0:09.8

your Catholic faith.

0:10.8

Recently, we all got to see some magnificent images from a magnificent piece of technology,

0:15.7

the James Webb Telescope, out there in space somewhere looking deep into the past using

0:22.1

its various sensors.

0:25.2

And this raises a tremendous sense of awe, a tremendous sense of the questioning mind gets

0:32.5

aroused by that.

0:33.5

And when we have those kinds of questions, we turn to Dr. Karen Oberg from Harvard University.

0:37.8

She's an astrochemist from Harvard University.

0:41.0

She's going to be using some of these images in her work.

0:44.3

And she's also just a fantastic, wonderful teacher of the Catholic faith.

0:48.6

So a perfect person to ask these questions.

0:51.5

Dr. Karen Oberg.

1:00.4

Like everybody else on Earth recently here at Catholic Answers, we saw those pictures

1:04.0

from the Webb Telescope and were astounded and Darren and I both had the same thought.

1:10.0

We got to talk with Dr. Karen Oberg about this.

1:12.2

This is the one person in the world you'd want to talk about these images with.

1:16.4

Dr. Karen Oberg is a professor of astronomy at Harvard University and we consider her a friend

1:21.4

because she's always very kind.

1:22.4

It takes the time to talk to us about the kind of the intersection between science and

1:26.9

faith.

1:27.9

Dr. Karen Oberg, thanks for being with us.

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