From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan,

where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored,

this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

They say there's no atheists in a foxhole.

There's not many atheists when you're waiting to see if it's going to rain on your crops.

The lives we lead allow us to pretend that we can do without these deep things in our lives.

This is your host, Scott Bertram.

That was Dominic Green, author of The Religious Revolution and Pulliam Fellow here on Hillsdale's

campus for the spring term.

We'll talk with him about writing, journalism, and religion a little bit later on in the program.

First, we're joined by Dr. Matthew Young. He is Dean of Natural

Sciences and Associate Professor of Chemistry at Hillsdale College. He is also your teacher for the brand

new Hillsdale Online course, The Great Principles of Chemistry, available now at online.hillsdale.edu.edu.

Dr. Young, thanks so much for joining us.

Good to be with you.

Pleasure to have you back, excited about the new online course.

What should people expect if they take the great principles of chemistry?

Well, this class is a, it's meant to be a taste of the chemistry course that Hillsdale students take as

part of the core curriculum. And so in that way, it's meant to give not a comprehensive, you know,

all of the facts of chemistry or all the chemistry you need to know to move on to

other chemistry courses, but a taste for how chemistry helps us to understand the world. And so

that's why we call it the great principles, some of the central ideas of chemistry and how

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