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Guestsplaining 005 - Karin Öberg, Professor of Astrochemistry at Harvard, on Science and Faith

Godsplaining

Dominican Friars Province of St. Joseph

Religion & Spirituality

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Guestsplaining 005 - Karin Öberg, Professor of Astrochemistry at Harvard, on Science and Faith On this episode of Guestsplaining, Fr. Gregory Pine and Fr. Jacob Bertrand Janczyk are joined by Karin Öberg, a professor of astrochemistry at Harvard University, to talk about her conversion to the Church and her work as a scientist. Support the Podcast- Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/godsplaining?...​ Shop our store- https://godsplaining.bigcartel.com​​​​​ Connect on Social Media- Follow us on Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/godsplainin...​ Like us on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/godsplaining...​ Follow us on Twitter- https://twitter.com/godsplaining​​​​​​ More information on the Godsplaining Summer Retreat- https://godsplaining.org/events-1​​​ The Thomistic Institute- Home link- https://thomisticinstitute.org Aquinas 101: Faith and Science- https://aquinas101.thomisticinstitute.org

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0:00.0

Welcome to God's Blaining, contemplative preachers, contemporary age.

0:10.0

Each week joined the Dominican friars as they consider all things Catholic.

0:15.0

And welcome back to God's playing. I am Father Gregory Pine. I don't know why sometimes when I introduce myself it's like now I'm going to tell you something that you don't know but you do so why I communicate it with the same level of excitement every time is entirely beyond me so now I'm with the same level of excitement every time is entirely beyond me.

0:34.3

So now, on to more exciting things.

0:37.1

I'm here with Father Jacob Bertrand.

0:38.9

Father Jacob Bertrand, how you doing?

0:41.5

I'm suffering right now, honestly. If you were to go on to the

0:46.7

you too to watch the video you would see that I am absolutely blinded by the

0:50.3

light that's coming in from the window. I was told that it looks great, but I'm hurting right now.

0:57.3

So, but other than that things are good. So it's great to be here for sure.

1:00.8

Yeah, so on future episodes you might be able to, you know, tune in and find that we're wearing

1:05.9

sunglasses or that we have like elaborate sun reflection contraptions. So stay tuned for that and by elaborate reflection contraptions, I mean like cardboard

1:14.4

boxes held above our eyes.

1:15.9

I was looking for cardboard to block out the part of the window.

1:18.6

People might wonder, just for the record for, so that I don't seem like a total moron, The blinds are closed but at the House of Studies there are these like panel sand glass above the blinds that don't have blinds and I have an office that gets sun 24-7 in my face.

1:33.6

So, a lot of Vitamin D, which is good, but otherwise it's tough.

1:38.0

And I live in Switzerland, so my room is surrounded by mountains,

1:42.1

and I'm currently sitting in three feet of snow so I have no sun problems

1:46.4

But now here we are when you clicked on this episode you said I am prepared to listen to a guest to this moment in the show you have not yet

1:55.2

met the guest but it is my pleasure to introduce one Karen Oberg who is a

2:00.6

professor of astrochemistry at Harvard.

2:04.3

So, Karen, we're delighted to have you on the show.

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