Reasons to Believe Podcast

Reasons to Believe Podcast

RTB‘s mission is to spread the Christian Gospel by demonstrating that sound reason and scientific research consistently support, rather than erode, confidence in the truth of the Bible.

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July 24, 2024 46 mins

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.

Himalayan Snow Warming

Three physicists used data collected from 165 stations in the Himalayan-Tibetan region and a regional climate model to determine the effect of black ca...

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Join Fazale “Fuz” Rana and guest Casey Luskin 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.

Nature-Inspired Designs

One of the most exciting areas of science and engineering is biomimetics and bioinspiration. Scientists and engineers working in this fiel...

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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.

A New Organelle?

A team of life scientists has claimed to discover a new organelle (called a nitroplast) that fixes nitrogen. It looks like this organelle evolved from an endosymbiont that assumed per...

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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 p...

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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 bla...
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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.

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 b...

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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 ...
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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’s Syndrome
  • Does this discovery mean that Neanderthals were just like us?
  • In l...
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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 com...
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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.

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 composi...
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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...
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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 th...
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