I. Welcome to Idi The Future. I'm Casey Luskin and today we're going to talk about whether the

Cosmos was engineered. We have with us Professor Dominique Helzmer, a professor of engineering at oral Roberts University.

Dominique, it's great to have you on the show with us.

Well, it's great to be here, Casey.

So Dominique, as I said, you're a professor of engineering at oral Roberts University and we wanted to have you

on the show because you wrote a textbook titled Hacking the Cosmos, how reverse engineering

uncovers organization, ingenuity, and the care of a maker.

But before we get into your book a little bit,

what else can you tell us about your background

and what was your motive for writing this textbook?

Well, I've been teaching engineering at all Roberts University for about 29 years now, and I've been

enjoying that quite a bit.

Before that, I got my PhD at UCLA in mechanical engineering and my bachelor's and

and master's in aeronautical and astronomical engineering

from Purdue University.

And I also, while I've been at ORU, I've completed a Masters in biblical literature.

Wow, that's wonderful. So you've got quite a background for thinking about engineering through a lens of science and faith I would imagine.

Right, and that's one of the reasons why I wanted to pursue that master's in biblical literature

because I have a strong interest in science faith questions. And the reason I wrote the book really was to

I was thinking if my engineering students said ORU and having a textbook for them

especially the intro to engineering students, the freshman coming in,

first year students to orient them to the science and faith conversation and the role that

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