Equinox
Dr. Robert Carter and producer Joseph Darnell explore the world from a Christian perspective. On our quest, we will discuss science, but a little history and philosophy as well.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 74
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
14: ‘Science’ Fiction Films
What makes a good sci-fi movie? How much fiction can we mix with fact before the science part begins to fall apart? Using the movie Interstellar as a focus of attention, Joe and Rob discuss movie mak…
01:00:15 |
Thu 28 May 2020
13: The Earth Is Slowing Down
Rob and Joseph revisit some of the previous topics and bring them together with an unexpected twist. You will learn what the moon, Earth’s gravity, the Ice Age, and extinct corals all have to do with…
00:53:36 |
Wed 20 May 2020
12: Who is Dr. Rob Carter? Part II
Joseph grills Rob some more about his past, specifically about how he got to where he is today. The discussion ranges from corals, to computer programming, to genetics, to Covid-19. Meanwhile, Joseph…
00:49:38 |
Thu 14 May 2020
11: Who is Dr. Rob Carter? Part I
Joseph decided it was time to ask the question, “Who is Dr. Carter.” The two laugh their way through the life of Rob: from bad grades to a love of learning, Georgia Tech to teaching high school, scub…
00:49:40 |
Wed 29 Apr 2020
10: The Earth
In honor of the 50th Earth Day, Joe and Rob talk about...the earth! That is, the rock we call planet earth. They discuss some amazing experiments, done in the 1700s, that told us the mass of the eart…
00:59:21 |
Wed 22 Apr 2020
9: Christianity and the Environment: A Review of the Riot and the Dance
Joe and Rob review the documentary films The Riot and the Dance and discuss various environmental issues and how the Christian is supposed to approach these things.
00:52:02 |
Thu 16 Apr 2020
8: All the Peoples of the World
Joe and Rob go on a world tour, trying to explain where all the peoples of the world came from, including Eskimos, Polynesians, Native Americans, Asians, and Europeans. They ran out of time before th…
00:50:41 |
Wed 08 Apr 2020
7: Personal Genetics and Why There Are No More Secrets
Rob and Joe, surprisingly, discuss beekeeping, unsurprisingly talk about the coronavirus, then move onto the main topic: ancestry and genetics. They cover a lot of ground, including making transgenic…
00:56:03 |
Wed 01 Apr 2020
6: Darwin 2.0: Correcting the Myths
In this second episode on the life of Charles Darwin, Rob and Joe discuss multiple myths about Darwin’s life, including the false ideas that he first thought of evolution while on the Galapagos and t…
00:59:13 |
Wed 25 Mar 2020
5: Charles Darwin, the Man, but Mostly the Myth
Charles Darwin is a man of legend in science history. The real man’s influence shaped much of the progress and setbacks culture experiences today. Dr Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell take a journey thro…
00:54:51 |
Wed 18 Mar 2020
4: Clocks, Ancient Calendars, and Absolute Craziness
Tracking time goes all the way back to the first people who ever lived. How did they decide on months? Weeks? Years? Did they use the starts, the moon, seasons, or political ventures to define their …
01:00:12 |
Wed 11 Mar 2020
3: Ancient DNA: Finding What Should Not Be There
Archeologists and geneticists are finding DNA in older and older things. Some of these discoveries are significantly challenging. In fact, many theories on the history of mankind have been abandoned …
00:59:01 |
Thu 05 Mar 2020
2: Stopping the Sun, Moving the Earth
Geocentrism is a scientific theory that could have left mankind in the 'dark ages', but in the end it still held civilizations back for thousands of years. Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell explore w…
Wed 26 Feb 2020
1: The Greatest Theory Ever
In this first episode, Joe and Rob explore Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity and explain how it is the single greatest engine of scientific prediction ever made by man. The theory of gravity also …
Wed 19 Feb 2020
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