{"id":3683,"date":"2013-12-24T06:04:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T06:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2013-12-23T19:17:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T19:17:07","slug":"the-exposing-pseudoastronomy-podcast-takes-on-the-star-of-bethlehem-with-me-aaron-adair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2013\/12\/24\/the-exposing-pseudoastronomy-podcast-takes-on-the-star-of-bethlehem-with-me-aaron-adair\/","title":{"rendered":"The Exposing Pseudoastronomy Podcast takes on the Star of Bethlehem \u2026 with Me, Aaron Adair!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As part of the continuing efforts to get the message out about the Star of Bethlehem and the failure to explain it with astronomy, I was interviewed on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ExposingPseudoAstronomy\" target=\"_blank\">Exposing Pseudoastronomy podcast<\/a>, run by Stuart Robbins, an young planetary scientist and skeptic. In the past, the podcast has tackled lots of material from Coast to Coast AM and some of their top guests, such as<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_C._Hoagland\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Hoagland<\/a>, in great but comfortable detail. That should be enough reason to subscribe to this skeptical outlet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If you want to hear the podcast with me, you can go to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pseudoastro.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/20\/podcast-episode-96-the-star-of-bethlehem-a-skeptical-view-with-aaron-adair\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog page<\/a>, find the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.sjrdesign.net\/shownotes_096.php\" target=\"_blank\">show notes<\/a>, or listen right here:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3683-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/podcast.sjrdesign.net\/media\/podcasts\/PseudoAstro_096.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.sjrdesign.net\/media\/podcasts\/PseudoAstro_096.mp3\">http:\/\/podcast.sjrdesign.net\/media\/podcasts\/PseudoAstro_096.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Quick notes: my voice wasn\u2019t in the best of conditions, apparently due to some acid coming up in the night to burn my vocal chords. And I made a small gaff in a place or two. For example, I talked about commentary on the Star by \u201cSaint Augustus.\u201d While Augustus is important to Christian history, he\u2019s not a saint, let alone with the standing of Saint\u00a0<em>Augustine<\/em>. But otherwise, this came out really well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"text-align: justify\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-frc3\/407147_218172561600525_632586999_n.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the continuing efforts to get the message out about the Star of Bethlehem and the failure to explain it with astronomy, I was interviewed on the Exposing Pseudoastronomy podcast, run by Stuart Robbins, an young planetary scientist and skeptic. In the past, the podcast has tackled lots of material from Coast to Coast AM and some of their top guests, such asRichard Hoagland, in great but comfortable detail. That should be enough reason to subscribe to this skeptical outlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,4,13,23],"tags":[188,573,39,609,45,700,574,612,1748,198,370,580,104,107,110,980],"class_list":["post-3683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-cosmology","category-jesus","category-skepticism","tag-astrology","tag-astronomy","tag-atheism","tag-bible","tag-christianity","tag-christmas","tag-history-2","tag-history-of-science","tag-jesus","tag-nativity","tag-new-testament","tag-religion","tag-science-2","tag-skepticism-2","tag-star-of-bethlehem","tag-war-of-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}