Cosmic Plinko

Bonus Episode: The Multiverse & Choosing Your Strange

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 strange A conversation that invites awe at just how rare and finely balanced it all is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

Cosmic Plinko

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

Owner’s Manual Part Two: Find And Replace

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

Owner's Manual Part One: The Instructions

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 [http://www.biologos.org/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

Fault Lines

Am I bad or sick? Lindsay has lived with disordered eating since childhood. She tried everything she could find, but nothing worked. For decades, each failure felt moral—like she was choosing wrong. Then she starts a new medicine, and within 24 hours, the compulsion that shaped her life disappears. If one shot can silence a lifelong impulse overnight, what does that mean about all the years before? Was it a moral failure or a medical condition? We step into the court room with murder trials. We meet a man caught between his faith and his genetics. And we uncover a secret science experiment aimed at making people more virtuous—all to understand where moral choice ends and biology begins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]