Episode 44 - Listening to God, Axioms, and Dinosaur Intelligence

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Mike McHargue

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🗓️ 30 November 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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For this week's Ask Science Mike, we address the following questions: Why didn’t dinosaurs evolve into intelligent beings? How do I listen to God? Do you have an axiom for spiritual warfare? Why do you use male pronouns for mixed-gender groups? You're in charge of this program. All you have to do is submit a question using #asksciencemike on Twitter, YouTube, or Soundcloud. You can also submit questions anonymously on asksciencemike.com. The easiest way to get new episodes is to subscribe on iTunes here. Ask Science Mike is made possible by listeners like you. Learn more on our Patreon page. Here are some resources on each answer if you'd like to dig deeper. Why didn’t dinosaurs evolve into intelligent beings? Richard Dawkins and the crappy ‘humanoid dinosaurs’ that just won’t die http://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/aliens-depend-on-time-to-grow-brains/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troodon How do I listen to God? When God Talks Back - Tanya Luhrmann Do you have an axiom for spiritual warfare? My Axioms Why do you use male pronouns for mixed-gender groups? Pronouns: Or, why I still use masculine pronouns for God - Sarah Bessey Ask Science Mike is produced by Gregg Nordin. The Ask Science Mike theme song was written, performed, and recorded by Jeb Bodiford. If you need original podcast music, he's your guy. You've got questions, he's got answers. Even though we may not understand he'll talk anyway. You've got problems, he won't solve them, But he'll talk and talk and talk until he's blue in the face. Science, faith, and life - Ask Science Mike.

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0:00.0	Listening to God, Axioms, and Dinosaur Intelligence.
0:04.0	All that and more on this week's episode of Ask Science Mike.
0:08.0	You've got questions, he's got answers,
0:12.0	even though he may not understand.
0:14.0	He'll talk anyway.
0:15.0	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, and life. to the science faith in life
0:24.0	Ask Science Mike Mike, the podcast, or I say exactly the same thing to start off the show.
0:35.0	It's the post- Thanksgiving stuff full of turkey and my stomach edition of the show.
0:40.0	I've been traveling a lot, had kind of a weird couple of months in terms of
0:43.8	personal emergencies and crises but the show is back on schedule now. I'm not
0:48.5	traveling for weeks and weeks so let's do a podcast and get it started.
0:53.2	Hi Mike, this is Kat from Michigan.
0:59.2	My question today is about dinosaurs. They lived on this earth
1:05.2	for over a hundred million years, yet never developed intelligent life.
1:09.2	Meanwhile, placental mammals have only been around some 65 million years, and here we are
1:13.7	discussing God and science.
1:15.3	What makes us capable of developing quickly into the
1:18.8	intelligent creatures that we are and dinosaurs not?
1:21.3	Also a bonus question if dinosaurs hadn't been wiped out
1:24.8	and mammals hadn't taken over would they have eventually developed intelligent life
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