Stars, Cells, and God

Mar 05 2025 100 ep. 45 mins 39
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Discussions of new discoveries taking place at the frontiers of science that have theological and philosophical implications, as well as new discoveries that point to the reality of God’s existence.

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Solution to the Origin of Life?

Mar 05 2025 42 mins  
Join biochemists Fazale “Fuz” Rana and Robert DiSilvestro as they discuss discoveries with theological and philosophical implications pointing to the reality of God’s existence. Did life originate through evolutionary processes on the primordial Earth or through the handiwork of a Creator? In this episode Fuz and Robert critique one of the latest proposals from origin-of-life

Mutations and Earth’s Age | Little Red Dots vs. Big Bang?

Feb 26 2025 52 mins  
Join biochemist Fazale “Fuz” Rana and astrophysicist Hugh Ross as they discuss new discoveries with theological and philosophical implications pointing to the reality of God’s existence. Young-earth creationists argue that the buildup of mutations quickly causes genomes to deteriorate, driving organisms to extinction. This process of genetic entropy occurs on a timescale of 6

Chemical Signatures of ET? | Timescape Cosmology

Feb 19 2025 64 mins  
Join astrophysicists Hugh Ross and Jeff Zweerink as they discuss new discoveries with theological and philosophical implications pointing to the reality of God’s existence. Dimethyl sulfide in a planet’s atmosphere has been widely cited as an unambiguous signature of life on the planet. However, the discovery of dimethyl sulfide in a comet, in the interstellar medium, and in la

Chromosome 2 Design | Bird Flight: Designed or Random

Feb 12 2025 62 mins  
Join biochemist Fazale “Fuz” Rana and astrophysicist Jeff Zweerink as they discuss new discoveries with theological and philosophical implications pointing to the reality of God’s existence. Fuz discusses the work of Chinese scientists who have identified the functional significance of the [genetic?] fusion event that seemingly generated human chromosome 2. This insight valid

Finding Cosmological Constraints | Tension in Cosmology

Feb 05 2025 56 mins  
Join astrophysicists Hugh Ross and Jeff Zweerink as they discuss new discoveries with theological and philosophical implications pointing to the existence of God. Hugh explains that the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Collaboration has released redshift and position measurements on 3,855,000 galaxies and 857,000 quasars in the redshift range 0.1–2.1. Analysis of this

Detransitioning and Desisting

Jan 29 2025 36 mins  
Join biochemist Fazale “Fuz” Rana and OB/GYN Christina Cirucci as they discuss regret, desisting, and detransitioning among people who receive gender-affirming care. How often do people change their minds after they transition to the opposite gender? What motivates that change of mind? Can gender transitioning be fully reversed? Warning: This content may include explicit materi

Fossil DNA Supports a Young Earth? and Combating Pollutants

Jan 22 2025 43 mins  
Join biochemist Fazale “Fuz” Rana and astrophysicist Hugh Ross as they discuss DNA survival in fossils and how mussels could help civilization. These new discoveries suggest theological and philosophical implications alluding to the reality of God’s existence. Fuz surveys three key scientific papers on DNA survival in fossils and explains why the recovery of DNA fragments fro

DNA Data Storage and Most Hunted Particle

Jan 15 2025 44 mins  
DNA Data Storage In this episode, biochemist Fazale Rana discusses one of the latest advances in DNA data storage technology and explains how this insight adds to the evidence that a Creator played a role in the origin and basic design of life. Most Hunted Particle The most sought-after particles in the universe are axions, the leading candidate to comprise most of the universe’s

Is Gender Reassignment Surgery Safe and Effective?

Jan 08 2025 46 mins  
In this episode, biochemist Fazale Rana and OB/GYN Christina Cirucci discuss the safety of gender-affirming care, including gender reassignment surgeries. •What do these procedures entail?•Are there benefits to these procedures?•What are the complications?•How should Christians respond to someone who is considering these types of operations? Warning: This content may includ

Fine-Tuning and the Multiverse

Nov 27 2024 76 mins  
Fine-Tuning and the Multiverse Join Jeff Zweerink and Rabbis Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer as they discuss new discoveries taking place at the frontiers of science that have theological and philosophical implications, including the reality of God’s existence. Scientists have discovered that the fundamental constants needed to describe our universe provide evidence of an intelligent