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Science & You
by Dr. Michael Windheuser, Ph.D.
Visible creation showing the invisible God. A scientist discuses evidence that God exists and its implications for the Christian faith.
Episodes
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Episode #50 Preview of Science & You Season 2
This is a quick review of Season 1 and how to locate the actual published articles. Then I outline my plan for Season 2 and describe how Season 2 differs from Season 1. So, if you found Season 1 interesting, I do hope that you will continue to listen and think with me about ideas in both faith…
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Episode #49 Conspiracy of Reason - Why Should It Be So?
Some of the most difficult questions to answer are often the simplest to pose. For example, "Why?" is often impossible to answer. Many have made the observation that the universe and all physical, chemical and biological processes can be understood mathematically, and their mathematical...
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Episode #48 Problem & Solution: Circulation - Insert Miracle Here
Animals and people that use a closed circulatory system under positive pressure from the heart face a problem. How to supply every single cell of the body with oxygen and remove metabolic waste? The reason this is problematic is that as the size of a blood vessel decreases, its resistance to the...
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Episode #47 Pre-Biological Fitness - The Water Cycle
Water makes our planet habitable and life possible. It does so through many unique properties, one of which is the ability to both absorb and dispense heat energy. The water cycle is one key way that heat is moved from warm climates to cooler ones, helping to maintain world-wide temperatures…
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Episode #46 Problem/Solution - Navigation by Magnetoreception
A number of animals have the ability to sense the earth's magnetic field and to orient and move in relation to it. It seems that navigating using this magnetoreception sense is an elegant solution to the problem of finding one's way through an otherwise featureless environment like the ocean, but...
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Episode #45 Scientific Secrets
Science has many secrets. Not deep, dark, conspiratorial secrets, but practical secretes that are well-known to trained scientists yet not often revealed to the public. Scientists like to project an aura of authority and calm, unbiased rationality, which might be in jeopardy if these "secrets"…
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Episode #44 Fish Food
Using both plants and animals for food by humans is supported by both the Bible and Biology. The biological truth is that animals themselves live off the death of other living things, be they plants or other animals. In this sense, death is essential for life because death provides the building...
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Episode #43 The New Straw Man
Knocking down the "straw man" is a common debating technique. An opposing view is first described as challenging what everyone knows is true, then showing it is in fact true, and then highlighting how silly it is to believe what the opponent is said to believe. Some people, including a few...
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Episode #42 Living in the Light Part 2
Part 2 of Living in the Light answers the question about whether the first people, continuously exposed to sunlight during daylight hours, would have faced and increase risk of skin cancer and which type of light is badly needed in our lives today. Uplook Magazine September 2012, p.30.
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Episode #41 Living in the Light Part 1
After camping in the outdoors it sometimes feels strange to return to living in a box with artificial light. The Bible tells us people were meant to live outside, wearing only our skin. Humans need a certain amount of sunlight because our skin makes vitamin D in response to sun exposure. Because…
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Episode #40 Darwin, You Have Failed Us!
Since the rise of Darwinism in the mid 1800's, and almost universal acceptance of evolutionary theory today, not all intelligent people are persuaded to place their faith in the theory. The sad truth is that the theory has failed to provide a sufficient basis for human morality and justice, for…
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Episode #39 The Power of Prediction
Predictions of future dire catastrophes abound in our world today. For example, human population growth will ruin the natural world, a meteor may hit earth and wipe out all life, giant volcanic eruptions could put so much ash into the air that we would experience another ice age, and so on. But…
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Episode #38 Landscape War
One spring I inadvertently entered a war zone, my backyard. It was a war of my will and landscaping plans against the God-given drive of living things to survive and spread wherever they can. God has designed life to multiply and aggressively fill the Earth even if I have other plans for the same...
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Episode #37 The Grand Illusion
Gravity can be annoying. Gravity does not take vacations. It is relentless. Most adults courageously fight the good fight against gravity every day. Teenagers, on the other hand, have not yet taken up the struggle. Perhaps teenagers intuitively sense something that some theoretical physicists are...
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Episode #36 Abundant Toughness
Many people believe that life on earth is fragile and that wild animals and plants need our help if we and they are to survive. As a biologist who is also a Christian, I have a somewhat different view of life and it is clear that without a Biblical perspective, nature is reduced to landscape...
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Episode #35 E.T., Please Call Home
NASA recently sent two probes to Mars to look for water. They must either find existing life, evidence of past life, or conditions that allow life to evolve outside of earth if they hope to convince people that life on earth also evolved from non-living chemicals by chance. Thinking people may…
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Episode #34 Which Came First?
Which came first, DNA or protein??? Some think it was proteins forming in warm ocean tidepools. Others think it was actually RNA first, then DNA, then protein. But in order to have DNA some proteins are required and to have functioning proteins the information in DNA is required. So what does it...
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Episode #33 Wise Man?
The two-word scientific classification for humans is Homo sapiens, which literally means wise or knowing man. But have we named ourselves wisely? Surely we know a lot of information and we are intelligent, but is intelligence the same as wisdom? Uplook Magazine, May-June 2007, p.4. References: B....
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Episode #32 Being a Noticer
Another word for noticing is observing. Observing is the step where doing science actually begins. But observing is more than just seeing, it is seeing on steroids. To observe is to look with keen interest and an inquiring mind. Seeing only regards what is. But observing (a.k.a. noticing) wonders...
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Episode #31 Beyond the Obvious
Things are sometimes more than they appear, and can tell us more than the obvious. Seeds are not yet what they will be. An acorn is genetically an oak tree but only a fraction of the size and mass of the mature tree. Like all seeds, the job of the acorn is simply to survive until conditions are...
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Episode #30 New and Improved?
For evolution to have occurred requires the ability to create massive amounts of information to drive an increase in complexity. Natural Selection cannot be the mechanism which accomplished this because selection acts to reduce genetic variation in a population. Kenneth Miller disagrees, claiming...
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Episode #29 The Web of Life
Every year the incredible biological machine called a green plant produces millions of tons of wheat, corn, beans, grass, shrubs and trees. Since the late 1700's it has been known that the actual organic substance of the plant comes, not from the soil, but from the air! But plants don't just…
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Episode #28 Too Hot, Too Cold....Ah, Just Right!
A thermostat is an example of a mechanical feedback loop. It monitors and maintains the temperature in, say, your house. Living things use similar mechanisms to maintain body temperature, blood pressure, blood sugar levels and many other factors. But where did these biological feedback loops come...
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Episode #27 SETI In Their Ways
"SETI" is the acronym for the organization called "Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence". The goal of SETI is to find signs of intelligent life beyond earth by monitoring light and radio waves hitting earth from space and searching them for patterns. However, in 2004 their director admitted...
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Episode #26 The World as We Know It
Until recently it was a common practice by many in Hawaii to pick up white coral skeletons on the beach and arrange them into words or hearts etc. against the black lava flows along the coastal highway. One formation simply read "WE GO BEACH". Is it possible that wave action threw these bits of...
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Episode #25 Spiritual Signs and Symptoms
Parents are the ultimate detectives when it comes to their children's health. This is especially true when they are very young and don't speak yet. To make a diagnosis, a physician relies on the patient voicing some type of symptoms like pain or aches in the muscles. This is paired with the…
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Episode #24 Where do they go?
Temple Grandin is an autistic professor of animal science at the University of Colorado whose techniques for calming cattle as they moved into the processing plant changed the beef industry in the U.S. In the 2010 movie about her life, Temple is confronted with the death of her science teacher…
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Episode #23 Is God Dead? Or Just Improbable?
By one estimate, there is a 67% chance that God exists. This seemed too high of an estimate for the editor of Skeptic magazine. So he used his own numbers in the calculation and came up with a, shall we say, more skeptical estimate of 2%. What he seems not to grasp is that this 1 out of 50 chance...
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Episode #22 Perfect Choreography
The process of human conception, development and birth requires the perfect choreography of many factors if there is any hope of the infant arriving alive in her mother's arms. Similarly, sending a very complex vehicle to explore the surface of Mars, some 39 million miles (or more) away from…
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Episode #21 Survivor
The North American horseshoe crab is a survivor. Comparing horseshoe crab fossils to the living creature suggest It has changed little over time, even through major environmental changes which may have caused the extinction of many other creatures. A recent conservation campaign in Delaware Bay...
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Episode #20 Do This, Not That
All biological processes are under some type of logical regulatory control. In the immune system, cells called Macrophages eat dead and worn out cells and bacteria. If this process was not controlled we would eat ourselves up from the inside. Worn out cells which need to be recycled have on their...
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Episode #19 Once in a Lifetime
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Some time ago a man in my church died and we discovered that he had for years wound and set the clock at the back of the meeting room. Few noticed when the clock stopped and even fewer understood what it meant. In a similar way in the past, many have…
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Episode #18 Divine Dominos
Can understanding the "What?", lead us to "Whom?". If dominos are arranged standing up and are close to each other, when one is tipped over it causes the next one to fall, and the next, and the next... Something similar is found in living cells which use a domino-like cascade of sequentially...
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Episode #17 Synthetic Life
Is it possible to make life from scratch using just its raw materials? The elements and molecules needed for life are well know and can be made in a laboratory setting. And we are told that life "formed" long ago based on standard chemistry. Well, it turns out that making synthetic life is not so...
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Episode #16 Denial to Discovery
In 2004, prominent atheist philosopher Antony Flew announced he had finally "discovered God". In his 2007 book, There is a God, Flew outlines the scientific arguments that changed his mind after 70 plus years. The points he presents are familiar to anyone who has followed the...
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Episode #15 There's No Place Like Home
Outer space is not a very inviting place to visit. We must take with us and entire life support system to make it even possible to visit space. But we still cannot take gravity with us into space. Spaceflight in microgravity conditions is harmful to humans because our circulatory system bones and...
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Episode #14 Small May be Big, but it Isn't New
Small is big. Nanotechnology is the new marketing buzzword. Event two of the COVID-19 vaccines are produced using nanoparticles. But God was into nanotechnology from the very beginning, building life on a series of biochemical "nano-machines". A molecule of water is about three tenths of a...
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Episode #13 Which Forever is Coming?
Forever is coming, whether we like it or not. The question is: which forever? Physicists and astronomers who are also Materialist in their philosophy, proclaim they know how and when the universe began and approximately when and how it will end. But God has revealed in the Bible, a distinctly...
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Episode #12 The Sound of Music
Many animals such as frogs, birds, coyotes and insects, produce distinct calls or sounds. These calls help males and females find each other, signal danger, or assert ownership of a particular territory. But can any animal sounds really be called music in the sense that humans understand music?…
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Episode #7 The Miracle and Mystery of Life
An airplane is made of non-flying parts. But when integrated into a completed plane, the parts take on a new characteristic, flight. Similarly, a living cell is composed of dead chemicals which, when organized in just the right way, constitute a living thing. The property of Life is not inherent...
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Episode #11 Purpose By Design
Stem cells are unspecialized cells which divide to become many different types of specialized cells during embryonic development. Some stem cells remain active in the adult human and continuously produce cells called "transient amplifying cells" which are the source for new blood, skin and bone...
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Episode #10 Water of Life
Water is not life but life, as we know it, is impossible without water. Everyone needs clean, fresh water to survive. So it was surprising to me when a person, offered both physical and spiritual water, rejected both. These are the true "living dead". People who are physically alive but…
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Episode #9 The Fingerprint of God
The biological facts of human reproduction are well known. At the moment of fusion of an egg and sperm cell, a genetically unique diploid, human cell is formed and a new human genetic profile is established. But this new person within the mother, can cause the mother's immune system to see this…
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Episode #8 Surprised by Design
I once purchased a set of shelves for my office and liked them so much I wanted to make an additional set by "reverse engineering". After carefully measuring the existing shelves, I was surprised to realize they were designed to be cut from a single sheet of 4 foot by 8 foot plywood. I was, in a...
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Episode #6 Forensic Universe
Is it possible to apply forensic reasoning to the universe as a whole? If there is a "Someone" responsible for the way the universe is, could we develop a partial profile of this Someone from our basic understanding of the universe? David Penny suggests that the agent responsible for creation…
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Episode #5 Unseen Reality - We are surrounded by the invisible
Examples of unseen reality abound. Yet, if we believe so often in things that are unseen because we can see their effects, isn't it also reasonable to believe in a God who, though He cannot be seen, has shown us His reality by the effects He has in the universe, in history, and in the lives of…
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Episode # 4 The Wonderful Net - Freak chance or deliberate design?
Counter-current heat exchanger appear to be designed, or engineered solutions to the specific physiological challenges faced by some animals but not others. They seem to be used selectively and intelligently on an "as needed" basis. Uplook Magazine November 2006, page 11. References: P.F....
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Episode #3 Avian Olympians
As impressive as Olympic marathon athlete's performances are, there are examples of even greater endurance seen in birds. The physical stamina and aerobic efficiency of some birds allows them to migrate up to seven thousand miles one way while their navigational abilities enable them to find...
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Episode #2 Bearing Strangers - Exceptional Evidence
Xenophora (Greek for "bearing strangers") mollusks are called "carrier-shell" mollusks because they deliberately pick up empty shells, fragments of shells, or small rocks and cement them to its own shell as a form of camouflage. Yet the animal is essentially blind. How would this small animal…
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Episode #1 In the Beginning - Ask the One who was there
Many scientists now accept that the universe had a beginning and is therefore not eternal. Because something cannot exist without a sufficient cause, whatever begins to exist has a cause that brings it into being, and since the universe began to exist, it is therefore not eternal but had a cause...
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Visible creation showing the invisible God. A scientist discuses evidence that God exists and its implications for the Christian faith.
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