Reasons to Believe Podcast

Stars, Cells, and God | Growing Human Organs in Pigs and Mitigating Air Pollution

Join Fazale “Fuz” Rana and Hugh Ross 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.   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...

Clear Thinking | Take Up and Read: Ken's Apologetics Books, Part 4

Stars, Cells, and God | CRISPR Update and Two Noteworthy AI Finds

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...

Clear Thinking | Take Up and Read: Ken's Apologetics Books, Part 3

Stars, Cells, and God | 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 collaboration studying t...

Clear Thinking | Sin as a Disorder of the Good

Stars, Cells, and God | Perils of Space Travel and Drug Stability for Mars Mission

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 mus...

Clear Thinking | Torah & Science: Rabbis Feder and Zimmer, Part 2

Stars, Cells, and God | 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.   References: PODCAST LINKS: The Works of His Hands: A Scientist’s Journey from Atheism to Faith Science and Faith in Harmony: Contemplations on a Di...

Star, Cells, and God | 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.   References: PODCAST LINKS: The Works of His Hands: A Scientist’s Journey from Atheism to Faith Science and Faith in Harmony: Contemplations on a Di...

God’s Hand in Creation | David Block & Giovanni Fazio

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 ...

Crust Thickness and Life and Antimatter Feels Gravity | Hugh Ross and Jeff Zweerink

Join Hugh Ross 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. Crust Thickness and Life A team of five geophysicists demonstrated that the level of oxides in basalt primary melts are a good proxy for the thickness of Earth’s crust. They then supervised a machine-learning algorithm to analyze global geodatabases (e.g., EarthChem and GEOROC) of basalts to...

Chimp Tactical Behavior and New Big Bang Test | Hugh Ross and Fuz Rana

Join Fazale Rana and Hugh Ross 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. Chimp Tactical Behavior Researchers from the Tai Chimpanzee Project operating out of the Ivory Coast recently reported that chimpanzees make use of high ground to gain tactical information about rival groups. This is the first time that this human-like behavior has been observed in other anima...

Clear Thinking | Torah & Science: Interview with Rabbis Feder and Zimmer

Clear Thinking | How Can God Be Holy and Loving in Light of Evil?

Clear Thinking | Take Up and Read: Ken’s Apologetics Books, Part 2

Clear Thinking | Take Up and Read: Ken’s Apologetics Books, Part 1

Ken discusses the background and influence of his early apologetics books | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP

Stars,Cells, and God | Origin of Composite Genes and Infinities and Absurdities

Join Fazale 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.   Origin of Composite Genes A team of investigators from the University of Nottingham in the UK has demonstrated that composite genes make up about 5 percent of the gene groups in animal genomes. When viewed from an evolutionary framework, these composite genes don’t appear to have accrue...

Clear Thinking | A Theological Exploration of the Human Soul, Part 3

Stars, Cells, and God | God and Logic

In this episode, biochemist Fazale Rana is joined by Brazilian lawyer and philosopher Tassos Lycurgo to discuss how the laws of logic point to the necessary existence of God. In this freewheeling conversation, they also discuss the relationship between mathematics and God and explore other philosophical arguments for God’s existence.

Clear Thinking | A Theological Exploration of the Human Soul, Part 2

Stars, Cells, and God | Soft Tissues in Fossils and Evidence for the Planet Theia

Join Fazale “Fuz” Rana and Hugh Ross 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.   Soft Tissues in Fossils A research team from the University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, published two separate reports in which they present evidence for melanin pigments and keratin filaments in fossilized feathers. The researchers developed models for the chemical alterations of me...

Clear Thinking | A Theological Exploration of the Human Soul, Part 1

Stars, Cells, and God | Free Will: An Illusion?

Join Fazale 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.   Free Will: An Illusion? The prominent neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky has created a stir with the recent publication of his book Determined. Based on a wide range of findings from neuroscience and genetics, Sapolsky argues that free will is an illusion. All of our decisions are predeterm...

Clear Thinking | What You Need to Know about NDEs

Stars, Cells, and God | Cosmic Explosion Risk and Dust Drives Dinosaur Demise

Join Hugh Ross 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.   Cosmic Explosion Risk Astronomers have discovered yet another risk to advanced life in the universe—extremely luminous, fast-cooling transients. The most likely explanation for this newly discovered cosmic exploder is a tidal encounter between a star and a stellar-mass black hole or a sta...

Clear Thinking | Tassos Lycurgo on Responding to the Culture War

Stars, Cells, and God | Pig Organs in Humans and Will AI Do Science?

Join Fazale “Fuz” Rana and Jeff Zweerink as they discuss ground-breaking scientific discoveries that have theological and philosophical implications, including for the evidence of God’s existence.   Pig Organs in Humans Recently, research teams from NYU Langone Health, the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and the University of Maryland independently achieved milestones by transplanting kidneys and hearts from genetically engineered pigs into brain-dead patients and terminally ill patien...

Clear Thinking | 3 Science-Related Arguments for God’s Existence, Part 2

Stars, Cells, and God | JWST Galaxies Explained and AI Sees Differently than Us

Join Hugh Ross 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.   JWST Galaxies Explained The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed that early galaxies have much brighter ultraviolet luminosities than many big bang creation models predicted. Do such data challenge the creation view? Further research suggests not. Using a computer simulation, as...

Clear Thinking | 3 Science-Related Arguments for God’s Existence, Part 1

Clear Thinking | A Jewish-Christian Incarnational ”Christmas” Hymn, Part 2

Stars, Cells, and God | Too Many Early Galaxies and AI Easily Fooled

Join Hugh Ross 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.   Too Many Early Galaxies The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed about ten times as many galaxies within the cosmos’s first 420 million years as what some big bang creation models predict. Astronomers are searching for an explanation for this overabundance of early galaxies. Pos...

Clear Thinking | A Jewish-Christian Incarnational ”Christmas” Hymn, Part 1

Clear Thinking | Atheist Identifies Christianity’s Strongest Argument, Part 4

Clear Thinking | Atheist Identifies Christianity’s Strongest Argument, Part 3

Stars, Cells, and God | Neanderthal Flower Burial Nixed and Source of Heavy Metals

Join Fazale “Fuz” Rana and Hugh Ross 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.   Neanderthal Flower Burial Nixed Were Neanderthals like us? The answer to this question has profound implications for our understanding of human origins, and for the RTB creation model. Some anthropologists argue that Neanderthals engaged in ritualistic burials reflecting the capaciti...

Clear Thinking | Atheist Identifies Christianity’s Strongest Argument, Part 2

How original sin best explains the human condition

Clear Thinking | Atheist Identifies Christianity’s Strongest Argument, Part 1

A prominent atheist philosopher says original sin is the faith's strongest argument

Stars, Cells, and God | Musings on AI

Join astrophysicist Jeff Zweerink and special guest Christian apologist and lawyer Abdu Murray (president and founder of Embrace the Truth Ministry) 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.   Musings on AI Artificial intelligence (AI) has already penetrated many areas of our daily life. While AI can bring some benefits, we often don’t understand the long-term eff...

Clear Thinking | Abdu Murray on Christianity in the Marketplace

Abdu Murray discusses how to reach Muslims with the truth of the gospel

Stars, Cells, and God | Life on K2-18b? and Galaxy Formation Models

Join Hugh Ross 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.   Life on K2-18b? Two months ago the Internet blew up with articles and blogs announcing that astronomers had discovered molecules in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b that only living organisms can produce. Those biosignature molecules were dimethyl sulfide and chloromethane. While there ...

Clear Thinking | Is AI Going to Take Over the World?

Jeff Zweerink discusses the need for Christians to guide the development of AI

Stars, Cells, and God | Christianity, Islam, and Science

Join biochemist Fazale “Fuz” Rana and special guest, Christian apologist Abdu Murray, president and founder of Embrace the Truth Ministry, as they address how Christianity and Islam—two of the world’s three great monotheistic religions—engage with science.   Christianity, Islam, and Science In this special episode, Fuz Rana and Abdu Murray address these questions, and more.   Which religion has a worldview that provides the justification for science? Which religion can legitimately lay...

Clear Thinking | End Times Introduction, Part 4

Strengths and weaknesses of the major eschatological views

Stars, Cells, and God | Biochemical Maxwell Demons and First Australians

Join Fazale “Fuz” Rana and Hugh Ross 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.   Biochemical Maxwell Demons Maxwell’s demon is a thought experiment designed to illustrate the second law of thermodynamics. In this imaginary scenario, a demon operates a massless door separating two boxes filled with gas molecules. The demon opens and shuts the door to allow certain ...

Clear Thinking | End Times Introduction, Part 3

Three points to consider in end times eschatology

Stars, Cells, and God | Hominin Burials? and Viscous Fine-Tuning

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.   Hominin Burials? Were modern humans the first to bury their dead deliberately and ritualistically? Or did hominins that preceded them in life’s history also deliberately inter their dead? These questions bear on the concept of human exceptionalism and, for Christians, the scientif...

Clear Thinking | End Times Introduction, Part 2

Clear Thinking | Applying Logic to Conspiracy Theories, Part 3

Applying intellectual virtues to conspiracy theories