St Nicolas Steno, What is Lent & The Chosen

This week we talk about Nicolas Steno, nobody has heard of him. He was a Catholic Bishop and Saint from the 17^th century, he is interesting because he is the father of geology. He discovered that the bones people thought were from dragons were actually ancient sharks and dinosaurs. We are always told that all Christians believed the world was 6000 years old until geology found it wasn’t and Christians tried to supress the science. The truth is that geology was founded by a Christian saint and he discovered dinosaurs and it was atheists in the 18^th and 19^th century who opposed geology. We discuss why what we are told is the opposite of the true history.

We talk about Lent and why it is important to repent and why guilt can be a good thing to reform our lives. How it is that a world that doesn’t believe in repentance and sin is so unforgiving.

Finally we talk about the Netflix show The Chosen and why Dave and Hywel were both disappointed in it.

For more on our Lent course see Yateparish.org

For more on Nicolas Steno see: https://www.famousscientists.org/nicolas-steno/