Episode 2 - Pangea, Prayer, and Pretending God is Real

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Mike McHargue

Science, Leisure, Society & Culture, Games

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Welcome to Ask Science Mike, a weekly podcast where I answer your questions about science, faith, and life. A lot of people seem to think that science and faith are on opposite sides, but my experiences have shown me they work together just fine. This is the place where no questions are out-of-bounds, and no ideas are too weird to discuss. If you'd like to submit a question, just tag a Twitter, Soundcloud or Youtube post with #asksciencemike. The easiest way to get new episodes is to subscribe on iTunes here. Here's some additional resources for this week's questions: Q1: Rock Paradox Could a Planet Be As Big As a Star? - Universe Today Q2: Prayer and the Brain How God Changes Your Brain by Andrew Newberg, MD. Q3: Pangea About.com explains Pangea. The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood Q4: Where to Begin The Doubt Series - Mike McHargue

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0:00.0	Pangea prayer and pretending God is real. All that and more on this episode of Ask Science Mike.
0:07.0	You've got questions, he's got answers, even though he may not understand.
0:14.0	He'll talk anyway.
0:15.0	He got problems.
0:16.0	He won't solve them.
0:18.0	But I'm talking, talking, talking till it's blue in the face.
0:22.0	Science, faith in Life. Ask Science Mike!
0:27.0	Welcome to Ask Science Mike. It's a weekly podcast where I answer your questions about science, faith, and life.
0:35.0	I'm Science Mike, of course, and I'm completely blown away by the reception to the program
0:39.4	already. Thousands of people subscribed on iTunes after just one episode. You guys are nuts.
0:45.0	I'm totally excited to see where you take the show. So keep those questions coming.
0:49.3	I can't do it without you. Let's get this started. Our first question this week comes from Tom in New Jersey who sent in a pretty old school
1:05.4	paradox question. There's all kind of questions people ask each other to try to
1:10.0	prove whether God exists or not it's a very boring game people play on the internet that I used to have a lot of enthusiasm for.
1:16.4	But I thought it'd be really fun to tackle this question with science instead of the usual
1:21.7	theology that goes into it.
1:23.0	So here we go.
1:25.0	Question one for this week, can God make a rock so big
1:29.0	that he couldn't lift it?
1:31.0	Now this question is designed to present a paradox since God
1:36.0	is said to be all-powerful or almighty and able to do anything, the question poses a problem for omnipotence because either God can't create
1:49.6	the rock or he can't lift it. There's no way for an omnipotent God to win here. But this
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