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October 25, 2023 Madeline Shepley Season 1 Episode 39

In this episode, Madeline chats with her friend Thomas Salerno, a freelance writer, editor, and fellow podcaster with a background in paleontology and anthropology. During their conversation, they discuss his bachelor’s in anthropology from SUNY Stony Brook, his past work  at the American Museum of Natural History, his love of Bl. Nicolaus Steno, how Thomas and Madeline met via Legend Fiction, dinosaur fiction, hubris and playing God, bioethics, ungodly self-reliance, his time at Catholic boarding school, liturgy of the hours, science fiction, some prophetic words of Venerable Fulton Sheen, the Book of Revelation, walking around the same places as your heroes, the importance of challenging our biases, and so much more!

During the course of their conversation, they make many references which you can explore. Some of these references include episodes 19 and 32 of this podcast, the Legend Fiction community, the Prehistoric Planet show, the Foundation series/show, Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker, The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sky People by S.M. Stirling, A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, the Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien, Finding Darwin's God by Kenneth R. Miller, Markmaker by Mary Jessica Woods, Humanae Generis, and Fides et Ratio.

You can read more about Thomas's work and catch his own podcast episodes here.  He also has some work that you can read at Word on Fire such as these articles mentioned in the episode: the JWST piece, the pro-life piece, and the Jurassic Park piece.

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