Welcome to the Eric McTaxis show with your host, Eric Metaxus.

Hey there, folks.

Oh, boy.

Oh, boy. We like to talk about everything on the show. It's called the show about everything. And everything includes a lot of stuff. For example, science. I love to talk about science to scientists. My new book coming out in the fall called Is Atheism Dead has a gigantic section.

I mean, most of the book almost I think is about faith and science.

And I've discovered astonishing things, things that most people have no idea about.

And in the course of my research, I stumble on various scientists and things that I had known before. One of those

scientists is Sarah Salvander. She is an astrophysicist, but who isn't? Let's be honest. And she is in

Austin, Texas. She, it is, who is my guest today.

Sarah Salvander, welcome.

Thank you so much.

Am I pronouncing your name correctly?

Yeah, you are.

Right on.

Okay, that's really my goal in these interviews.

You're an astrophysicist.

Not many people that I know of can can legitimately say,

yes, I am an astrophysicist. So anybody who's an astrophysicist, you want to say, how did that happen?

But especially if it is a woman to whom I'm talking to, I'm all the more intrigued because, as we know,

women tend to be underrepresented

in the sciences, at least so I've been told.

So what is your story?

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