Houghton University

Mm-hmm.

Uh, if you ever heard of Houghton College, that's where I grew up.

It's the middle of the Southern Tier.

It's very rural.

There's very little opportunity outside of working at Houghton College in that cou- in Allegany County, um, which is what prompted me to join the military and, um, to be able to get out, uh, and, and do some things and support myself.

Um, so yeah, I, I grew up, uh, pretty poor.

I was the youngest of six kids and, you know, my parents were low middle-class, [laughs] maybe even lower classes.

Now a study shows that being presented with clear factual information endorsed by a trusted evangelical source can change the minds of climate skeptics.

So are evangelical Christians more receptive to changing their minds if the facts on climate change are presented with a Christian perspective? And does the presentation have to be given by a fellow evangelical Christian? To answer these questions, Catherine's father, Doug Hayhoe from Tyndale University College and Seminary in Canada, Mark Bloom from Dallas Baptist University, U.S., and Brian Webb from Houghton College measured how much people's opinions shifted after listening to Catherine Hayhoe give a presentation on climate change.

Then the students watched a recorded climate change lecture given by Catherine Hayhoe at Houghton College in February of 2015.

Some of the students saw an extended lecture where Hayhoe provided a Christian framework and others watched a shorter talk that just presented the climate change facts.

Afterwards, the participants repeated the climate change survey.

It'll be really excellent.

Y- y- so Ransom teaches, uh, biology at, uh, Houghton Coll- Houghton University in Western, uh, New York, and superheroes are nowhere in your job description, Ransom, I don't think.

And I don't see any publications.

I don't see a PhD.

That guy is Ransom Poethig.

But, uh, but, but today, um, sorry to disappoint, we're not going to talk about the molecular structure of soft muscle tissue, whatever that is.

We're gonna talk about a course that Ransom teaches, uh, at Houghton, Houghton University on superheroes.

So, um, before we dig into the actual course content, uh, Ransom, uh, I'd, I'd like you to, um, if you would please, tell us a little bit about how you approach teaching science, as you've done before on the Westminster Podcast.

Okay.

In seventh place, we have Houghton University.

Okay.

And of course, they're in Houghton, New York.

Dr. Mouw will be defending the position that the doctrine of common grace is reformed.

He is a graduate of Houghton College and completed graduate studies at Western Theological Seminary, University of Alberta, and earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago.

Dr. Mouw is currently in his 10th year as president of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.

Fuller is the largest multi-denominational seminary in the world.