Jimmy Akin: The Grinch That Stole Pagan Christmas

We regularly give Patrons the opportunity to ask Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli their mysterious questions and make them available exclusively to Patrons first and then later to the whole audience in a special bonus release like this one.

https://www.sqpn.com/2021/12/apocalyptic-polygamy-bell-witch-troy-lying-sports-in-heaven-resurrected-kidneys-and-more-patron-questions/

Further Resources:
• Polygamy in Christianity – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy_in_Christianity
• Bell Witch - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Witch
• Troy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy
• Heinrich Schliemann: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Schliemann
• August 2021 claim of Trojan Horse discovery: https://illinoisnewstoday.com/archaeologists-claim-to-have-found-a-trojan-horse-in-turkey/341532/
• Mystery airship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship
• Zodiac Killer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer
• Aphantasia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
• Aphantasia, Imagination, and Dreaming: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-020-01526-8
• Hyperconnectivity/Synesthesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
• Info on ADE responses: https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-safety/antibody-dependent-enhancement-and-vaccines
• Incorruptibility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorruptibility
• Philip experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_experiment

Mysterious Headlines:
• 2 California Condors have virgin births: https://gizmodo.com/two-california-condors-had-virgin-births-researchers-s-1847956681 (ZZ male; ZW female)
• Bigfoot language caught on tape?: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/10/bigfoot-language-on-tape-the-strange-case-of-the-sierra-sounds-recordings/

It's the day after Thanksgiving, so Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live is asking Jimmy Akin more weird questions from listeners, including whether Indy would have died opening the Ark; Was Emily Blunt murdering Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow; where did Jesus Y chromosome come from; and more.

https://www.sqpn.com/2021/11/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-time-travel-murder-jesus-y-chromosome-two-popes-more-weird-questions/

Questions Covered:
• 01:57 - What’s Jimmy’s favorite meal to eat on a Friday during Lent?
• 03:35 - Do I get to keep my tattoos after the Last Judgement?
• 07:00 - Apart from Jesus’ Passion, would Jesus ever have gotten sick or hurt, or would Psalm 91, which Satan quotes, apply and he would be protected? Would He have allowed Himself, Mary or an Apostle to become sick or hurt?
• 11:32 - Does the Emily Blunt character in the Tom Cruise movie “Edge of Tomorrow” commit murder every time she kills his character to restart the day?
• 17:25 - What should we make of the up and coming problem of human composting of bodies vs. Catholic burial? It is being implemented in Seattle and already approved by law there.
• 21:42 - How was the male seed provided to fertilize the egg which enabled Jesus the Christ to germinate? How was the DNA determined for the male contribution to Jesus’s zygote?
• 22:41 - What do you think the spiritual state of a Time Lord is?
• 24:24 - Given that Divine Revelation has provided us knowledge of invisible beings called angels and demons, and given that the fall of Adam is what threw the entire universe into discord, and given that all rational creatures are necessarily disposed to worship of God through the Incarnation of Christ, what possible room could there be for the existence of an unknown, unreached race of intelligent beings on other planets not accounted for by Revelation?
• 30:37 - In what sense could it be said that unicorns (or dragons or trolls or Captain Picard) exist?
• 37:01 - A Jewish friend asks me this all the time: How could the wise men have seen the star in the east if they were east of Judea?
• 39:50 - If Raiders of the Lost Ark was written to have Indy and his girlfriend open the Ark instead of the Germans would they have died in the same way the Germans did or no since they didn’t have any evil intentions with the Ark itself?
• 41:47 - I would love to hear a layman’s explanation of the immutability of God—how God is unchanging and exactly what that means for a personal God who watches over us changeable beings.
• 43:38 - What happens when you have two popes and, God forbid, the second one dies first?

Fifty years ago, Dan Cooper boarded a short flight to Seattle and then hijacked the plane. After getting hundreds of thousands of dollars, he parachuted out of the plane, never to be seen again. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask who he really was, how he pulled off the plot, and what happened to him after.

https://www.sqpn.com/2021/11/d-b-cooper-the-hijacker-who-got-away/

Further Resources:
• Geoffrey Gray’s book Skyjack: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper: https://amzn.to/3qXh8dI
• Skipp Porteous & Robert Blevins’s book Into the Blast: https://amzn.to/3HxzCaI
• Drew Beeson’s book Paratrooper of Fortune: https://amzn.to/3FJ3Ypd
• Robert H. Edwards’s book D. B. Cooper and Flight 305: Reexamining the Hijacking and the Disappearance (Nov. 24): https://amzn.to/3nucEJA
• Chuck Brodsky’s album with “The Ballad of D.B. Cooper”: https://amzn.to/30GNzm7
• D. B. Cooper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
• FBI files on D.B. Cooper: https://vault.fbi.gov/D-B-Cooper%20/
• Dan Cooper comics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Cooper_(comics)
• Dan Cooper skydiving cover: https://comicvine.gamespot.com/dan-cooper-20-laffaire-minos/4000-233354/
• How “D.B.” Cooper got his name: https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2016/07/tiny_piece_of_db_cooper_myster.html
• Aircraft hijacking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking
• Monty Python “Take this bus to Cuba!”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MYxAlA5wuk
• Skydivers weigh in on the jump: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/three-skydivers-weigh-in-on-d-b-cooper
• Vapor lock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_lock
• Terroristic threat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terroristic_threat
• Cooper vane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_vane

Mysterious Headlines:
• Dino DNA find in China challenged: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/paleontologists-find-possible-dinosaur-dna-69346
• Confidence-Based Scale for Alien Life Detection: https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-says-we-need-to-talk-about-what-happens-when-we-find-life-beyond-earth

For centuries, people have wondered whether there is life on Mars and NASA's 1970s-era rovers seemed to prove there was, but then doubts arose. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at whether there is life on Mars, how it would have got there, what it would be like.

https://www.sqpn.com/2021/11/life-on-mars-martian-life-alien-life-extraterrestrials-exobiology/

Further Resources:
• Bradley Schaefer’s audio course The Remarkable Science of Ancient Astronomy: https://amzn.to/3C4XNcy
• Michael Brooks’ book 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: https://amzn.to/3c3quvP
• Marcia Bartusiak’s book The Day We Found the Universe: https://amzn.to/3n85ue5
• Percival Lowell’s book Mars and Its Canals: https://amzn.to/3F2wim0Gilbert Levin’s web site: http://www.gilbertlevin.com/
• Gil Levin’s 2020 summary of evidence: http://www.gillevin.com/pdf/Mars-Status-2020.pdf
• Life on Mars (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars
• Christian Huygens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens
• Giovanni Schiapparelli: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Schiaparelli
• Percival Lowell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival_Lowell
• Martian “Canals”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_canal
• Flash floods on ancient Mars (video): https://youtu.be/6raYktN2_7A?t=786
• David Bowie’s song Life on Mars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKcl4-tcuo
• Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g
• Lucian of Samosata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian
• A True Story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story
• David Bowie’s 1971 song “Life on Mars?”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(song)
• 1962 Science magazine article “Martian Biology”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1708777
• 1996 NASA announcement: https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/nasa1.html
• 1996 Clinton announcement: https://youtu.be/pHhZQWAtWyQ
• Meteor ALH 84001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001
• Trees on Mars?: https://www.space.com/7775-strange-mars-photo-includes-tantalizing-tree-illusion.html
• Dr. Jane’s Science Notes (video version of album, cued up to the song “A Look at Things That Don’t Exist” via Vintage Filk Preservation): https://youtu.be/27Dz6v54Fco?t=754

Mysterious Headlines:
• Recently declassified 9/11 document (summary): https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-releases-first-911-document-after-biden-order-cnn-2021-09-12/
• Original text (redacted): https://vault.fbi.gov/9-11-attacks-investigation-and-related-materials/9-11-material-released-in-response-to-executive-order-14040/april-4-2016-electronic-communication-part-01-of-01/view

After 19th-century astronomers said Mars has a worldwide network of canals, people speculated there was not just life but a civilization there. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore whether there is life on Mars, and if so, how it got there and what it is like.

https://www.sqpn.com/2021/11/canals-on-mars-martian-life-alien-life-extraterrestrials-exobiology/

Further Resources:
• Bradley Schaefer’s audio course The Remarkable Science of Ancient Astronomy: https://amzn.to/3CHcX93
• Michael Brooks’ book 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: https://amzn.to/3EAhHxV
• Marcia Bartusiak’s book The Day We Found the Universe: https://amzn.to/3w6ZsNA
• Percival Lowell’s book Mars and Its Canals: https://amzn.to/3GFVwIB
• Gilbert Levin’s web site: http://www.gilbertlevin.com/
• Gil Levin’s 2020 summary of evidence: http://www.gillevin.com/pdf/Mars-Status-2020.pdf
• Life on Mars (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars
• Christian Huygens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens
• Giovanni Schiapparelli: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Schiaparelli
• Percival Lowell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival_Lowell
• Martian “Canals”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_canal
• Flash floods on ancient Mars (video): https://youtu.be/6raYktN2_7A?t=786
• David Bowie’s song Life on Mars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKcl4-tcuo
• Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g
• Lucian of Samosata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian
• A True Story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story
• David Bowie’s 1971 song “Life on Mars?”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(song)
• Video of the song “Life on Mars?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKcl4-tcuo
• 1962 Science magazine article “Martian Biology”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1708777

Mysterious Headlines:
• Humans evolving to have a new artery in their arms (and a new knee bone): https://www.sciencealert.com/more-humans-are-growing-an-extra-artery-in-our-arms-because-we-re-still-evolving
• Dino DNA in China: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/10/dinosaur-dna-may-have-been-found-in-china/