Genesis Science Report with David Rives

David Rives is joined by Professor Patrick Miller and Dr. Sarah Petersen.

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A University of Minnesota team says it built a cell entirely from non-living parts that grows, feeds and divides, and David looks at what that engineering actually shows. Professor Andy McIntosh returns with the work to turn the bombardier beetle's spray into real technology, and Dr. Carl Werner continues his Smithsonian series with the scientists behind two more walking whale displays.

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A Silicon Valley engineer founded a church devoted to a Godhead based on artificial intelligence, and David looks at the new push to worship machines. Physicist Dr. Eric Hedin explains the fine-tuned cosmological constant, and Tommy Lohman weighs in on whether Nanotyrannus is its own dinosaur or a young T. rex.

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A Columbia University team used base editing to rewrite a single letter of DNA in living human embryos. Neuroscientist Dr. David DeWitt looks at a Harvard study on lithium and the Alzheimer's brain, and Michael Oard explains a beach in England where rock formed in a matter of decades.

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The human brain runs on about the power of a dim light bulb, and Steve Furber, who helped design the original ARM chip, explains why engineers still cannot match it. Biomedical engineer Dr. Rob Stadler explains the protein folding problem.

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Archaeologists in Iznik, the ancient city of Nicaea, found a painting of Jesus as the Good Shepherd on the wall of a Roman tomb. Professor Andy McIntosh explains the bombardier beetle's boiling chemical spray, and Steve Taylor of the University of Liverpool discusses collagen found in a duck-billed dinosaur bone.

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Molecular biologist Dr. Ian Macreadie looks at new research linking gut bacteria to the protein plaques of Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Douglas Petrovich returns to name the Pharaoh he believes ruled Egypt at the time of the Exodus.

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Every Exodus movie casts Ramses the Great as Pharaoh, but Dr. Douglas Petrovich explains why the Bible's own dates put the Exodus more than a century before him. Historian Dr. Terry Mortenson traces how the idea of millions of years took hold before anyone could date a rock.

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Archaeologists in Laodicea found a headless marble statue of Athena lying face down behind a theater wall. Professor Stuart Burgess explains why engineers still cannot match a bird's shape-changing wing, and Wonders Center marine biologist Jack Hollander looks at a seafloor graveyard of nearly 500 whales.

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The same rock in northern Quebec has been dated about half a billion years apart by two different methods, and nuclear chemist Dr. Jay Wile explains the assumptions behind radiometric dates. Planetary geologist Dr. Clive Neal discusses the magnetic patches on the Moon and NASA's plans to study them.

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