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You're listening to episode 187 of Jimmy Akin's mysterious world, where we look at mysteries from

the twin perspectives of faith and reason. In this episode, Jimmy will be answering more of your

weird questions. I'm Tom Bettenelli and joining me today is Jimmy Akin. Happy New Year Jimmy.

Happy New Year to you, Tom and to all the listeners. Yes, happy New Year everyone.

It's a New Year's Eve and so we're bringing you another episode of Weird Questions with Jimmy

and Psy-Kellet of Catholic Answers Live. Jimmy, what weird questions will you be answering this time?

We're going to be talking about whether there could be dinosaurs in heaven,

Jesus's DNA, lying angels, a rebooted universe, and marrying alien among other topics.

Interesting. Good questions. So let's listen to your answers.

As again, as I said, I'm not going to be giving out the number folks. I'm just going to be reading

the questions. The first comes from Julia, whose question is actually from her five-year-old.

Jimmy, will there be dinosaurs in heaven?

Well, we aren't told the answer to this question in scripture or in the faith. Now there's a common

opinion that, a theologically among theologians historically, that animals will not be in heaven

because they don't have the kind of rational souls that we do. And it's often thought that you

need a rational soul to survive death. But that's just an opinion and it's really based on

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