Wonderology

In the last episode of Wonderology, we explored fine tuning and the odds of existence. Here, in this bonus episode of Science With Faith, we pick up the questions that linger.Faith Stults and McKenzie Hill take a closer look at how delicate the balance is between complex life and no existence at all, wonder what set us on that knife’s edge, and consider the possibility of a multiverse.Along the way:

A listener asks about Fred Hoyle and the carbon problem

McKenzie tweaks the constants of physics and keeps breaking the universe

They wrestle with the strangeness of Christian faith and the costs that come with choosing your strangeA conversation that invites awe at just how rare and finely balanced it all is.

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Fred Hoyle is standing at a chalkboard when he realizes something is wrong. Every equation arrives at the same conclusion: the universe is producing something that science can’t explain.

Something that means humanity shouldn’t exist.

But the only way to fix it is to change the story of how the universe works—in a way that will spark a fight no one can walk away from. Because what he finds is only the beginning.
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Who do we become if our power outpaces our wisdom?

Scientists studying bacteria discover something strange: a natural system that can recognize invading DNA and cut it out. What happens when humans learn to do the same?A blind man volunteers for an experimental trial, hoping to regain his sight. A scientist conducts one of the most controversial experiments of modern science. And families discover a cure exists—but must survive the maze to reach it.
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What if our bodies came with operating instructions—and we could finally read them?

In 1904, a young man named Walter Noel walks into a Chicago hospital. He’s been sick for a month and isn’t improving. An intern tries something medicine is only beginning to trust: they look at his blood under a microscope. His cells look nothing like anything they’ve seen before.Nearly a hundred years later, that moment sets the stage for what could become the biggest medical breakthrough in human history—one powerful enough to explain our past, rewrite our future, and spark a battle that reaches the White House.

Learn more about Francis Collins’ organization BioLogos: www.biologos.org
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