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Theology for the CuriousEp.147 - I Was Just Wondering? - What Did God Do Before He Created? w/ Alan PadgettClick here to text us your thoughts and questions!What did God do before He created anything? It’s a question that invites both wonder and mystery — and in this episode, we dive into how philosophers and theologians have wrestled with it for centuries. Is time something that flows on its own, as Newton imagined, or is it something that exists only in relation to God and creation? We explore whether God is timeless — dwelling in an eternal “now” as Boethius described — or everlasting, moving with time without being limited by it. Along the way, we consider what it mean...
2025-11-1349 minTheology for the CuriousEp.147: I Was Just Wondering? - What Did God Do Before He Created? w/ Alan PadgettClick here to text us your thoughts and questions!What did God do before He created anything? It’s a question that invites both wonder and mystery — and in this episode, we dive into how philosophers and theologians have wrestled with it for centuries. Is time something that flows on its own, as Newton imagined, or is it something that exists only in relation to God and creation? We explore whether God is timeless — dwelling in an eternal “now” as Boethius described — or everlasting, moving with time without being limited by it. Along the way, we consider what it mean...
2025-11-1349 min
core.pyEpisode 26.2: CPython Sprint Week in Cambridge UK, Part 2More interviews from the core sprint! This time we have: Greg P. Smith, Thomas Wouters, Paul Ganssle, Pradyun Gedam, Carol Willing, Guido van Rossum, Brett Cannon, Erlend Aasland, Tal Einat, Lysandros Nikolaou, Yury Selivanov, and Diego Russo -- the organizer himself.## Timestamps(00:00:00) INTRO(00:01:51) Greg P. Smith(00:07:57) Thomas Wouters(00:16:33) Paul Ganssle(00:28:28) Pradyun Gedam(00:34:02) Carol Willing(00:43:32) Guido van Rossum(00:55:39) Brett Cannon(01:10:01) Erlend Aasland(01:14:05) Tal Einat(01:22:21) Lysandros Nikolaou(01:30:40) Yury Selivanov
2025-10-252h 18
College Faith#61: Redeeming Philosophy: How Christian Scholars Changed The ConversationIn the mid-20th century, many in academia assumed that serious philosophy had little room for Christian belief. But in the past fifty-plus years, something remarkable has happened—a quiet revolution in the philosophy departments of leading universities. Christian philosophers have not only entered the conversation; they’ve shaped it, challenged prevailing assumptions, and earned a respected place in scholarly dialogue.
In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Greg Ganssle, author, philosopher, and Department Chair of Talbot School of Theology’s Philosophy Department.
We explore how the revival of Christian philosophy began, the thinkers who helpe...
2025-10-011h 12
Escape From Vault DisneyDavy Crockett and the River PiratesThis week, the randomizer goes all the way back to 1956 to pick a relic from the bygone era when those mysterious newfangled "tele-visions" in people's houses would only broadcast shows at very specific dates and times, and if you wanted to watch something again, you had to wait for it to become a big-enough pop culture phenomenon to be repackaged for the big screen and shown at your local cinema. Fortunately, that very thing happened to Walt Disney's prequel miniseries about the original coonskin cap-wearing king of the wild frontier, and arguably the only former U.S. Congressman to...
2023-07-051h 14
Escape From Vault DisneyThe Muppet Christmas Carol DISCLAIMER: This episode was recorded and released prior to the arrest of one of its guests, Kyle Carrozza. We at Escape From Vault Disney strongly condemn Mr. Carrozza's actions and offer our deepest sympathies to his victims, and we will not be inviting him on this podcast again in the future. That said, rather than attempt to rewrite history, we have decided to leave this episode online and intact as a time capsule of when it was made. This week, for our second of three special Christmas episodes of 2022, the randomizer goes all the way back to 1992...
2022-12-141h 21
The Real Python PodcastLaunching Python, Virtual Environments, and Locking Dependencies With Brett CannonWould you like a simple command to launch your Python programs using the newest version of the language installed on your machine? This week on the show, we continue our conversation with Brett Cannon. Brett discusses his project, the Python Launcher for Unix.
We dive into Brett’s workflow to set up projects, virtual environments, and prepare for distribution. He shares some of the tools he employs and reasons for keeping things simple.
We also talk about PEP 665, which specifies a file format to list an application’s Python package installation requirements. Brett shares why he c...
2022-01-1450 min
Test & Code174: pseudo-TDD - Paul GanssleIn this episode, I talk with Paul Ganssle about a fun workflow that he calls pseudo-TDD. Pseudo-TDD is a way to keep your commit history clean and your tests passing with each commit. This workflow includes using pytest xfail and some semi-advanced version control features.Some strict forms of TDD include something like this:write a failing test that demonstrates a lacking feature or defectwrite the source code to get the test to passrefactor if necessaryrepeatIn reality, at least for me, the software development process is way more messy than this, and no...
2021-12-2239 minTest & Code171: How and why I use pytest's xfail - Paul GansslePaul Ganssle, is a software developer at Google, core Python dev, and open source maintainer for many projects, has some thoughts about pytest's xfail. He was an early skeptic of using xfail, and is now an proponent of the feature. In this episode, we talk about some open source workflows that are possible because of xfail. Special Guest: Paul Ganssle.Links:How and why I use pytest's xfail — Paul's blog post mentioned in the episodeCraft Minimal Bug Reports — Matthew Rocklin's articleepisode 111: Subtests in Python with unittest and pyt...
2021-11-2237 min
Defending and Commending the Faith With Dr. Joe L. Mott, inviting the atheist, agnostic and skeptic to examine for themselves the evidence for the Christian faithDawkins’ Central Argument - Part 3
References:
1. God is a term in the conclusion not mentioned in the 6 statements of the argument.
2. The 6 statements are not truth claims.
3. The 6 statements do not include an implication.
4. “Being Logical” by D. Q. McInerny.
5. Genetic Fallacy.
6. “Dawkins’ Best Argument Against God’s Existence” by Gregory E. Ganssle — an article in “Contending with Christianity’s Critics” edited by Paul Copan and William Lane Craig.
7. “Dawkins’ Delusion” by William Lane Craig — article in “True Reason” edited by Tom Gilson and Carson Weitnauer.
This is episode 66.
2021-11-0116 min
The Real Python PodcastExploring the New Features of Python 3.9Python 3.9 has arrived! This week on the show, former guest and Real Python author Geir Arne Hjelle returns to talk about his recent article, “Python 3.9: Cool New Features for You to Try”. Also joining the conversation is Real Python video course instructor and author Christopher Trudeau. Christopher has created a video course, which was released this week also, based on Geir Arne’s article. We talk about time zones, merging dictionaries, the new parser, type hints, and more.
Geir Arne and Christopher not only cover the new features, but they also offer advice about ways you might incorp...
2020-10-091h 14Test & Code111: Subtests in Python with unittest and pytest - Paul GanssleIn both unittest and pytest, when a test function hits a failing assert, the test stops and is marked as a failed test. What if you want to keep going, and check more things? There are a few ways. One of them is subtests.Python's unittest introduced subtests in Python 3.4. pytest introduced support for subtests with changes in pytest 4.4 and a plugin, called pytest-subtests. Subtests are still not really used that much.But really, what are they? When could you use them? And more importantly, what shoul...
2020-05-0246 min
The Conspiracy SkepticConspiracy Skeptic Unplugged Episode 17 - David IckePaul Ganssle, Conspiracy Skeptic Listener and skeptic about town, stops in to talk about David Icke and the Reptilian Conspiracy.
2010-07-0300 min