Episode 37: Follow That Star!

Data Over Dogma

Data Over Dogma Media, LLC

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

A physicist? On a Bible podcast? At Christmas time? Well, there are a couple of ways that could go! This week, we welcome Dr. Aaron Adair onto the show. Dr. Adair's book, The Star of Bethlehem: A Skeptical View, discusses the famous star that led the wise men to baby Jesus in the book of Matthew. What could such a star have been? Is there a known heavenly body that could be used to guide someone to a specific place? How did it appear? Well, we got the guy who wrote the book on the subject, so buckle up. This one's going to be fun! For early access to an ad-free version of the show, exclusive content, and an opportunity to support our work, please consider becoming a monthly patron at: https://www.patreon.com/DataOverDogma Follow us on the various social media places: https://www.facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod https://www.twitter.com/data_over_dogma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Greg Jackson. I'm a PhD holding historian, a professor, and the
0:04.9	creator of history that doesn't suck. A podcast that makes legit
0:08.1	seriously researched American history come to life through entertaining stories.
0:11.5	Join me for a chronological telling of the United States story.
0:15.0	From the Revolution to Fractious Civil War, tenacious inventors, brave reformers, and more.
0:20.0	With more than 100 episodes, you can already binge listen your way from 1776 to the early 20th century.
0:25.0	Listen to history that doesn't suck on Spotify.
0:28.0	So what you're saying is if a disciple shows up in your room don't get medical
0:36.4	attention just believe whatever he says I think you should at least get
0:40.2	out some milk and cookies he's at least least 2,000 years old at this point.
0:44.0	Arthritis is through the roof. Get him some help. Yeah.
0:47.0	Hey everybody, I'm Dan McClellan and I'm Dan Beecher and you are listening to the
0:55.7	Data Over Dogma Podcast where we increase public access to the academic study of
1:00.0	the Bible and religion and combat the spread of misinformation about the same.
1:04.6	How are things today, Dan?
1:06.4	You know, the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful.
1:10.8	Let's not get to two in the weeds of that trouble.
1:15.0	Listen, it's tis the season man and that's the theme of the show today is sort of the Christmas season and all right so I I figure that's what we need to be talking about
1:29.1	That sounds reasonable which is unusual for us, but we have a we have a guess with us today
1:35.2	I want to go ahead and introduce a good friend of mine Aaron Adair he is a research
1:40.0	affiliate in physics education at MIT and also make some filthy
1:45.2	leuker on the side working for a defense contractor. Welcome to the show
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