Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2025-01-06
Books mentioned on 512. Time, Space, and the Miraculous | Dr. Brian Keating
Jordan Peterson sits down with experimental cosmologist Dr. Brian Keating.
Brian Keating discussed When I heard the learn'd astronomer by Walt Whitman and Operations of the geometric and military compass, 1606 by Galileo Galilei. Jordan Peterson discussed The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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When I heard the learn'd astronomer
Discussed“are you familiar with the poem by Walt Whitman yes it's called when I heard the Learned astronomer”
Where to get it
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The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R.
Discussed“that's why the ring of power in The Lord of the Rings is the is the ring of Satan himself”
Where to get it
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Operations of the geometric and military compass, 1606
Discussed“so this this was a book he wrote It's called the military Compass”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged We Who Wrestle with God
“so the first is I just published this book we who wrestle with God”
Plugged We Who Wrestle with God
“So, the first is, I just published this book, We Who Wrestle with God. It hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list, so I'm kind of happy about that for five different reasons.”
“and has produced the first-ever audiobook by his intellectual hero, Galileo Galilei, “The Dialogue on Two World Systems.””
Plugged Losing the Nobel Prize
“you didn't think you were going to go down and you're going to discover dust instead of the Big Bang which is what happened to me in my I describ my first book”
Plugged We Who Wrestle with God
“I'm going to give you this book right now so this is the new book I wrote We who wrestle with God”
Plugged We Who Wrestle with God
“I'm going to give you this book right now; so this is the new book I wrote, 'We Who Wrestle with God.' It's a good time to give this to you because I've made other arguments about the relationship between science and the divine, let's say, in this book.”
Plugged We Who Wrestle with God
“I tried in this book not to put forward any propositions that I couldn't justify scientifically, but I'm not making a scientific case for God. I think the case— I think the rapport between science and religion is not going to be found in the use of materialist reductionism to prove the existence of a designer.”