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Stars, Cells, and God

Reasons to Believe

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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38:43

Human Brain Tissue Controls Robot | News of the Day

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/07/08

Join Fazale “Fuz” Rana in this breaking News of the Day episode of Stars, Cells, and God. Fuz reports on the work by a research team from Tianjin University in China, who, recently stole headlines when they announced that they developed a chip that used human brain tissue to control a robotics system. This remarkable breakthrough (called organoid intelligence) generates excitement and also raises some profound ethical and theological questions. In this episode Fuz explains: How this technology

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15:23

Do Early Supermassive Black Holes Refute the Big...

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/07/03

Join Hugh Ross in this breaking News of the Day episode of Stars, Cells, and God. Hugh describes the discovery of four fully-formed supermassive black holes that existed just 410–760 million years after the cosmic creation event. Do Early Supermassive Black Holes Refute the Big Bang? Quasar J1120+0641, seen 760 million years after the cosmic beginning, has a supermassive black hole (SMBH) weighing 1.52 billion solar masses. Quasar J1342+0928, seen 700 million years after the beginning, has a SMBH

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43:19

Smart Dams and Malicious AIs

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/07/03

Smart Dams More than 58,000 dams that are built higher than 15 meters (50 feet) exist on nearly all the world’s rivers. Consequently, migratory fish stocks have declined by 76% since 1970 and populations of “megafish” have declined by 94%. Two water resource engineers combined fish migratory taxonomy data with migratory fish life cycle and dam impact models to determine the best fish rescue strategies for five flagship fish species residing in the 12 large dams on the Yangtze River in China. They

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16:59

Bolide Airbursts Trigger Recent Global Cooling Event...

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/07/01

Join Hugh Ross in this breaking News of the Day episode of Stars, Cells, and God. Hugh describes the discovery of microspherules and meltglass at three North American sites, consistent with low-altitude airbursts from a disintegrating comet, that explain the Younger Dryas cooling onset 12,800 years ago. Bolide Airbursts Trigger Recent Global Cooling Event During the younger Dryas (12,800–11,700 years ago), global mean temperatures plummeted by 10–15°C. This cooling event, in part, explains the

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23:29

Neanderthal with Down Syndrome | News of the Day

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/07/01

Join Fazale “Fuz” Rana in this breaking News of the Day episode of Stars, Cells, and God. Fuz discusses work by a team of anthropologists from Spain who maintain that analysis of a partial skull fossil indicates that Neanderthals provided compassionate care for a Neanderthal child with Down syndrome. Neanderthal with Down Syndrome Does this discovery mean that Neanderthals were just like us? In light of this find, can humans be regarded as exceptional and unique? If Neanderthals were like us, can

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13:24

Dark Matter Particles? | News of the Day

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/06/24

Join Hugh Ross in this breaking News of the Day episode of Stars, Cells, and God. Hugh describes stars at our galaxy’s center showing their luminosities are augmented by the annihilation of dark matter particles in their cores. This could be the first direct discovery of dark matter particles. Dark Matter Particles? Dark matter makes up 24.5% of the universe. Neutrinos are the only dark matter particles detected so far and comprise <1% of dark matter. Three astronomers produced a mock stellar

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17:56

Do Primordial Black Holes Resolve Dark Matter...

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/06/19

Join Hugh Ross in this breaking News of the Day episode of Stars, Cells, and God. Hugh describes a discovery that may resolve a long-standing mystery about dark matter. Do Primordial Black Holes Resolve Dark Matter Mystery? Dark matter is matter that doesn’t interact with light or interacts at an extremely weak level. The quantity of dark matter that exists and its locations in the universe are not mysteries. Dark matter’s composition is a mystery that has stymied astronomers and physicists for 50

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20:30

Distant Galaxy and the Big Bang | News of the Day

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/06/11

Join Hugh Ross in this breaking News of the Day episode of Stars, Cells, and God. Hugh describes the discovery of the most distant known galaxy and what the characteristics of this galaxy imply for the cosmic dawn and the big bang creation model. Distant Galaxy and the Big Bang Join us as we explore: The astounding measurement of galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0 at a redshift of 14.32, revealing a glimpse into the universe just 280 million years after the cosmic creation event. Insights into the size and

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01:00:33

Biological Basis for Belief? and Woke at the University?

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/05/15

Biological Basis for Belief? As human beings, our religious nature defines us. Treating it as a scientific question, many scientists wonder, how do we account for human spirituality and religiosity? Are there brain structures and processes that explain this behavior? Using lesion mapping, a research team from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently determined the brain regions and neural circuits that account for religiosity and spirituality. This study (amongst others)

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15:00

Interstellar Cloud Trigger for Civilization | News of...

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/05/13

Join astrophysicist Hugh Ross in this breaking News of the Day episode of Stars, Cells, and God. Hugh describes the discovery of the important role interstellar space clouds played in establishing the current ice age cyclethat made our advanced civilization possible. Join us as we explore why we must be in an ice age cycle and: How rare it is for the solar system to traverse cold, dense interstellar clouds, How the entry of the solar system into a cold dense interstellar cloud about 2.5 million

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50:21

Before the First Stars and The Universe: 28 GYr Old?

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/05/08

Before the First Stars A team of astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) “to boldly go where no man has gone before”: to observe and measure the composition of gas clouds before any stars formed. The JWST’s primary mission is to explore the cosmic dawn—the first billion years of cosmic history. Astronomers took a high-resolution spectrum of a giant gas cloud in the halo of GN-z11, a bright galaxy 13.38 billion light-years away, corresponding to only 410 million years after the

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50:18

Xenotransplant Success and "Big Ring" of Galaxies found

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/05/01

Xenotransplant Success Worldwide, millions of people need organ transplants and many die while waiting. It is impossible to scale up human organ donation rates to meet the demand. However, recent success in xenotransplantation may solve the shortfall. Surgical transplants of pig hearts, livers, and kidneys all show promise of (at least temporary) function and no signs of organ rejection. Xenotransplantation provides yet more evidence that God designed the higher animals to enhance human health and

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56:56

ERVs and Embryo Development and Just the Right Amount...

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/04/24

ERVs and Embryo Development For many people, the shared ERV (endogenous retrovirus) sequences in the human and great ape genomes evince common ancestry and an evolutionary origin for humanity. Yet, new discoveries about the physiological role of ERVs suggest another interpretation for why they appear in the human genome. In this episode, biochemist Fuz Rana discusses the latest insight into ERV molecular biology and explores the question, “Can a creation model explain the occurrence of ERV sequences

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25:20

NOTD-001

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/04/22

Join Fazale “Fuz” Rana in this breaking News of the Day episode of Stars, Cells, and God. Fuz offers a critical assessment of a recent article addressing the origin-of-life topic. Do Cracks in Rocks Explain Life’s Origin? A team of German researchers recently published results of a prebiotic simulation study in which they claim that thermal gradients could drive the generation of biopolymers (chains of molecules) on early Earth. These thermal gradients would have created convection currents in

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51:42

Emerging AI Abilities or Not?

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/04/17

AI Abilities Emerging or Not? One concern regarding the development of artificial intelligence (AI) relates to the emergence of unpredictable features that arise as the systems grow in scale. Researchers consider an “emergent ability” as something that the AI has routinely failed to accomplish but suddenly performs well as the system grows in size (either from hardware or software growth). A number of papers claiming emergent abilities populate scientific literature. However, a recent study shows

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58:30

Growing Human Organs in Pigs and Mitigating Air...

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/04/10

Growing Human Organs in Pigs In the fall of 2023, a team of researchers from China published the results of a proof-of-principle study that demonstrated for the first time that it’s possible to grow humanized kidneys in a fetal pig. This work provides the means to study the process of organogenesis that may also alleviate the shortage of organs available for human transplant procedures. However, this research raises all sorts of questions that could be summarized with a single question: “Should we

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01:06:11

CRISPR Update and Two Noteworthy AI Finds

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/04/03

Join Fazale “Fuz” Rana and Jeff Zweerink 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. CRISPR Update In December of 2023, the FDA approved two revolutionary new treatments for the blood disorders sickle cell anemia and ß-thalassemia, both based on gene-editing technology. This approval represents an important milestone for gene therapy and the treatment of thousands of genetic

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58:47

God's Hand in Creation

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/03/27

God’s Hand in Creation In this special episode, we replay a recorded conversation between prominent astronomer Dr. David Block (professor emeritus of mathematics and astronomy at the University of Witwatersrand and the director of RTB Africa) and world-renowned astronomer Giovanni Fazio (senior physicist at the Center for Astrophysics-Harvard & Smithsonian and a lecturer in the department of astronomy at Harvard University). This wide-ranging conversation between two friends includes their

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30:30

Perils of Space Travel and Drug Stability for Mars...

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/03/20

Join Jeff Zweerink and Steve Baertschi, president of Baertschi Consulting, 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. Perils of Space Travel Although science fiction makes space travel seem almost inevitable, current research demonstrates numerous challenges to humans residing in space for long periods of time. Along with the well-known detrimental effects on muscle mass and

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57:45

A Distilled Doxology

Stars, Cells, and God ·

2024/03/13

A Distilled Doxology In this special episode, Fazale “Fuz” Rana and Sy Garte discuss Garte’s new book, Science and Faith in Harmony. Garte’s approach to science and faith inspires a sense of wonder. He demonstrates the many ways that science—the study of God’s spoken word—harmonizes with Scripture—God’s written word—in profoundly beautiful and meaningful ways. Links and Resources: The Works of His Hands: A Scientist’s Journey from Atheism to Faith Science and Faith in Harmony: Contemplations on a

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