Best 60 Second Science Podcasts (2024)

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What’s Your Biggest Problem?

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This is Ken Ham, editor of the popular apologetics series, The New Answers Books. Our world is filled with problems—a looming economic crisis, more and more wars, diseases, family breakdown—well, the list goes on! But those aren’t our biggest problems. You see, we all have the same ultimate problem—sin and death! Scripture makes it clear we’re all …

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Breaking Down the Nature of Math Debate with Drag Queen Kyne Santos 13:28

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Where does math come from? Mathematicians are still debating whether math is an inherent part of nature or an invention of the human mind. Mathematics communicator and drag queen Kyne will guide you through the question of what math really is in this three-part Friday miniseries. Recommended reading: – Gift Wrapping Five Oranges Has Outwitted the B…

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Let's Talk Wild EP 66 - Celebrity Cephalopods: Octopus and Squid In Pop Culture 16:30

37m ago16:30

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Release the Kraken! To celebrate International Cephalopod Awareness Days, I'll spotlight the Celebrity Octopus and Squid, who have wrapped pop culture in their tentacles and haven't let go. PODCAST WEBSITE: https://letstalkwild.buzzsprout.com/ LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/letstalkwild YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/@letstalkwild INSTAGRAM: https://www…

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What Every Student Needs

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This is Ken Ham, head of the ministry producing the evangelistic VBS program, Answers VBS. Our public education system indoctrinates thousands of students each year not to believe the Bible. Most of them are taught evolution as fact, and that through millions of years of death and disease man evolved. Then churches tell these students about a God o…

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Worse Sinners Than Others?

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This is Ken Ham, inviting you to bring your family to the life-sized Noah’s ark in Kentucky. During Jesus’ earthly ministry, tragedy struck—a tower collapsed, killing eighteen people. Jesus spoke of this event to his disciples, and he gave an answer to the question of why God allows tragedies, but maybe not the answer you’d expect. He said, “do you…

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Untangling the Link between Eating Disorders and PCOS 13:58

1d ago13:58

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Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affects up to five million people in the U.S., yet it remains poorly understood. Many people with PCOS go undiagnosed while experiencing symptoms such as irregular periods, changes in hair and body shape, acne and infertility. Even after a diagnosis, they’re often told to lose weight to manage symptoms—advice that s…

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A Choice We All Have

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This is Ken Ham, equipping the church with answers through the ministry Answers in Genesis. Genesis tells us that God’s original creation was “very good.” There was no death or suffering in that original world. Those only exist because of sin—the first man Adam’s and our continued sin. You see, the first two people God made were created with the fr…

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Episode 91s: Sleepscape 1:19:50

25m ago1:19:50

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Remixed and remastered, and a longer journey. Professor Atwood hopes you enjoy your journey around the pretend volcano.

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Death—Our Fault?

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This is Ken Ham, author of the practical and personal book on suffering, Divine Dilemma. It doesn’t take many years of living in this broken world for someone to ask why God allows suffering. And usually this isn’t an academic question—they’re asking because they’re suffering, sometimes intensely. So why does God allow death and suffering? Well, th…

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How Pregnancy Changes the Brain, and How Lizards Make DIY Scuba Gear 9:22

2d ago9:22

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In this week’s news roundup: Earth might have previously had a giant ring of space rocks like the one around Saturn, “scuba diving” lizards are using bubbles to breathe, and a new study mapped brain changes in a person throughout pregnancy. Additionally, we describe how NASA’s stranded astronauts will vote from space. E-mail us at sciencequickly@sc…

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Why are medicine names so complicated? 2:09

5d ago2:09

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Darshan was asked to explain why drug names can be so complicated, and the answer lies in the fact that each drug typically has at least three distinct names. First, there’s the chemical name, which is a technical identifier describing the drug’s molecular structure—these names are often long and complex, like “acetylsalicylic acid,” and are more f…

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Fixing Congruency Reviews in 8 Minutes 8:36

7d ago8:36

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In this episode, Istvan Fekete joins us to discuss the intricacies of Congruency Reviews. We will explore the common mistakes individuals may encounter during these reviews and examine effective strategies for handling these errors. Additionally, we will delve into the processes that can be implemented to mitigate risks associated with congruency r…

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Yes, It’s a Young Earth!

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This is Ken Ham, editor of the popular apologetics series, The New Answers Books. This week we’ve seen that the idea of millions of years doesn’t come from the rocks. It came from a belief about the past! So we shouldn’t be surprised that the evidence confirms the Bible’s history of just thousands of years. For example, helium quickly escapes rocks…

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Finding Math’s Beauty and Power with Drag Queen Kyne Santos 14:26

1h ago14:26

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Mathematics communicator and drag queen Kyne Santos will help you discover the beauty and power of math in this three-part Friday miniseries. Kyne takes us back to ancient Greece to illustrate the elegance of mathematics. We meet mathematician Tom Crawford, who combines fieldwork and modeling to predict the impacts of pollution, as well as philosop…

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Two Kinds of Science

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This is Ken Ham, inviting you to visit the Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky. This week we’re looking at where the idea of millions of years came from. Now you might wonder, “isn’t millions of years just science?” Well, there’s two different kinds of science. Observational science is directly testable, repeatable, and observable. Think technolog…

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Disastrous Compromise

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This is Ken Ham, author of the popular book Divided Nation: Cultures in Chaos and a Conflicted Church. As geology began to shift away from God’s Word and to the interpretation of millions of years of slow and gradual processes, many Christians accepted the old ages and added them into Genesis. But this compromise had consequences. Once the door was…

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Why Black Men Should Consider Earlier Screening for Prostate Cancer 13:10

20m ago13:10

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In recognition of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month this September, host Rachel Feltman sits down with Alfred Winkler, chief of urology at NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, to discuss proactive steps individuals can take to protect themselves against prostate cancer. Black American men, in particular, face some of the highest rates of th…

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The Dark Side of Med Device Kickbacks 4:45

11d ago4:45

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Today, we're discussing a critical issue for pharmaceutical and medical device marketers – promotional compliance. Overview of the Innovasis Settlement: Innovasis Inc. recently settled a $12 million case for alleged kickback schemes to doctors. This highlights the importance of promotional compliance. Allegations Against Innovasis: From Jan. 1, 201…

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Compromise on God’s Word

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This is Ken Ham, author of the book on death and a good God, Divine Dilemma. Yesterday we learned the idea of millions of years came from a new way of looking at rock layers that rejected the eyewitness account of history in God’s Word. Now how did the church react to this shift? Well, many scientists rejected it! They argued the Bible’s history co…

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Episode 91: Pretend Volcanoes and French Toast 29:25

8d ago29:25

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Professor Atwood locates the nefarious Professor P.'s hidden volcanic lair, and tries to find a way in.

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They Rejected the Flood

7d ago

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This is Ken Ham, encouraging you to stand on God’s Word from the very first verse. Have you ever wondered where the idea of millions of years came from? You see, for most of Western history people believed in a young earth because they respected the Bible as the history book of the universe. But about two hundred years ago there was a shift. People…

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AI Could Help Save Us from Conspiracy Theories, and Massachusetts Could Help Save Us from Our Trash 10:29

1h ago10:29

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This week's news roundup: The European Space Agency’s Juice mission tested its instruments with a flyby of Earth in preparation for studying habitability on moons of Jupiter’. Also, a study found that Massachusetts has reduced food waste through composting and enforcement while four other states have not successfully done so despite also having ban…

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Which Hair Loss Treatment Is Right for You? 2:29

14d ago2:29

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Darshan addresses common questions about potential treatments for hair loss. He provides insights based on his expertise as both a pharmacist and an FDA regulatory lawyer. Darshan explains that FDA-approved treatments for hair loss include minoxidil and finasteride. Minoxidil, originally a blood pressure medication, can lower blood pressure and has…

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Only Eight Survived!

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This is Ken Ham, inviting you to visit the Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky. This whole week we’ve seen that the Genesis text is clear: Noah’s flood was global. But it’s not just Genesis! Jesus compared his second coming to Noah’s flood. Now Jesus’ return isn’t going to be a localized event—it will be global, just as the flood was! And the apos…

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This Episode Was Recorded from Space 17:32

30m ago17:32

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Science Quickly host Rachel Feltman interviewed NASA flight engineer Matthew Dominick live—from space! In this first-ever interview conducted from the International Space Station’s (ISS’s) iconic cupola, Dominick talks about his path to space, his experience on the ISS and his incredible astrophotography. You can listen to the full video and watch …

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The Rainbow Covenant

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This is Ken Ham, head of the ministry behind the popular Answers Bible Curriculum for Homeschool. Was Noah’s flood local or global? This week we’ve seen that Genesis makes it clear that Noah’s flood was global. And the size of the Ark itself makes it clear that God was sending a global flood. Then, after the flood, God said the rainbow would be a s…

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Why Was the Ark So Big?

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This is Ken Ham, a speaker and author on the Bible’s authority and reliability. This week we’re looking at the question “was Noah’s flood local or global?” Well, consider this: Noah’s ark was huge. At five hundred and ten feet long, fifty-one feet high, and eighty-five feet wide, the ark was a massive ship designed to hold two of every kind of anim…

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How 9/11 Transformed Forensic Science 17:49

2d ago17:49

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Content warning: This episode contains some details about the 9/11 attacks and victims’ remains. Twenty-three years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, forensic scientists are still working to identify victims from the World Trade Center site. Host Rachel Feltman speaks with Kathleen Corrado, forensics executive director at Syracuse University’s Coll…

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All and Every

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This is Ken Ham, inviting you to visit the full-size Noah’s Ark at the Ark Encounter. Some Christians, including many pastors and Bible colleges, teach that Noah’s flood was just a local event, not a flood that actually covered the entire earth. Now this doesn’t come from the text of Genesis. It comes from bringing evolutionary ideas from outside t…

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#60 Community Health Heroes: Unpacking the Missouri Kids IPC Toolkit 28:23

3d ago28:23

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In the latest episode of the 5 Second Rule podcast, guest Chris Smith delves into the collaboration between the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and APIC, resulting in the development of a school-based IPC Toolkit for Missouri Schools. This initiative equips the school community with valuable resources to enhance infection preventi…

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Episode 90s:Sleepscape 1:23:25

18d ago1:23:25

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Remixed and remastered, and a longer journey. Board Professor Atwood's submarine, the O2, and enjoy your trip.

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Analyzing the Publication Rights Clause in CTAs 1:49

19d ago1:49

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Today's discussion revolves around the legal clauses found in clinical trials, with a focus on Article 8, the Publication Rights Clause. The following points are discussed: Unrestricted Rights: The clause prov ides the Site with unrestricted rights to publish all trial data. This is excessive and could jeopardize the Sponsor's control over the inte…

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Why Not a Global Flood?

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This is Ken Ham, editor of the apologetics book, A Flood of Evidence. I often hear from Christians who don’t believe Noah’s flood was a global flood. They’ll say it was just a local flood in Mesopotamia. But why? Well, it’s not because of what the Bible says. Genesis is very clear that it was a global flood. The idea of a local flood comes from, we…

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Jellyfish Clones Swarm British Columbian Lakes, and Measles Cases Surge in Oregon 9:31

4d ago9:31

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In this week’s new roundup, a new study finds no clear connection between phone use and brain or head cancers, putting some fears to rest. Meanwhile Sweden’s new screen-time guidelines suggest keeping kids under age two away from screens entirely and limiting time for older children—and echo concerns from other countries about how much time young p…

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63 | Manu Prakash and how the discovery changes you 44:49

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Manu Prakash is a professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, asking biological questions with insights from physics. His most widely known contribution is the FoldScope, a $1-microscope made from paper and a lens – 2 million copies of this have been distributed to would-be scientists around the world. In this episode, Manu emphasizes how s…

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What Really Starts Pharmacy Investigations? 1:52

21d ago1:52

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We discuss the seven ways pharmacy investigations can begin: 1. Data Analysis: Agencies like the DEA and DOJ monitor prescription data for unusual patterns, such as excessive dispensing of certain drugs. 2. Tips: Anonymous reports from the public or industry insiders alert authorities to suspicious activities. 3. Whistleblowers: Individuals within …

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Peter Believed Genesis!

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This is Ken Ham, head of the ministry producing the popular Answers Bible Curriculum for Churches. Yesterday we learned that the apostle Paul treated Genesis as literal history and as foundational to the gospel. Well, the apostle Peter did too! In his letters he refers to the flood of Noah’s day as a historical event and that only eight people were…

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In Sickness and Age: Finding Balance between Caregiving and Self-Care (Part 2) 18:15

24d ago18:15

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As people live longer and family sizes shrink, fewer relatives are available to share the burden of caregiving for aging loved ones. The second episode of our two-part miniseries on caregiving explores what this means for the family members who take on this critical role. How do they provide the best care while also maintaining their own well-being…

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Paul Believed Genesis!

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This is Ken Ham, author of the classic book, The Lie: Evolution and Millions of Years. One of the apostle Paul’s favorite topics to write about was Jesus and the gospel. And when he does this, he builds his doctrine of sin and salvation on the fact that sin and death entered the world through Adam. For example, he writes that we needed the last Ada…

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Jesus Believed Genesis!

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This is Ken Ham, encouraging the church to stand on God’s Word from the very first verse. During his teaching ministry on earth, Jesus frequently quoted the Old Testament. He mentioned Adam and Eve as the first married couple, Noah and the flood as a real event, Lot and his wife as real people who fled the city of Sodom before its divine destructio…

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How Racism Might Be Accelerating Aging and Menopause 14:45

26d ago14:45

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Discrimination may be speeding up the aging process for people of color and other minoritized groups. Research is revealing that structural and interpersonal racism could be key factors in why these communities often age faster and face age-related diseases sooner. Alexis Reeves, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, studies how racism …

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Reusing Names?

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This is Ken Ham, head of the ministry behind the rapidly growing Answers in Genesis YouTube channel. Yesterday we learned that many people believe the garden of Eden was in the Middle East because the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are mentioned as flowing from Eden. But today’s Tigris and Euphrates don’t match the description of the rivers of Eden. S…

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Episode 90: The First Trial of the O2 30:13

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Professor Atwood runs into some malicious activity in his submarine as he travels to confront the nefarious Professor P.

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Where Was the Garden of Eden?

21d ago

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This is Ken Ham, inviting you to visit the Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky. Have you ever wondered where the Garden of Eden was? Many people assume the Middle East because Genesis mentions the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and those rivers flow in the Middle East. But this is a wrong assumption. You see, the Bible describes four rivers coming fr…

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Same Evidence, Different Worldviews

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This is Ken Ham, editor of the popular children’s series, The Answers Books for Kids. All this week we’ve been looking at the order in the fossil record and how to interpret it. It’s a good reminder that the battle isn’t over the evidence. You see, creationists and evolutionists both study the same fossils, the same rocks, the same world but come t…

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In Sickness and Age: Changing Family Structures and Caregiving (Part 1) 19:47

1M ago19:47

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In this first episode of a two-part miniseries on caregiving, Tanya Lewis, Scientific American’s senior editor of health and medicine, shares her personal experience with becoming a caregiver for her mother after her mom was diagnosed with a serious illness. Her journey inspired her to explore the broader challenges faced by caregivers. Lewis and h…

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Let's Talk Wild EP 65 - The Animals Of Beetlejuice 20:28

29d ago20:28

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It's show time! The ghost with the most is back! Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is ready to release with Michael Keaton reprising his role in the Tim Burton-directed film. For this episode, I'll highlight the different species of animals that have helped give the Beetlejuice personality a little more juice! PODCAST WEBSITE: https://letstalkwild.buzzsprout…

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Living Fossils?

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This is Ken Ham, with a passion for the truth of God’s Word and the gospel message. Evolutionists observe certain types of fossils in specific rock layers and assume when that creature disappears from the record, it went extinct. But they’ve been surprised by “living fossils”! Take the coelacanth, a fish believed to have gone extinct with the dinos…

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Episode 89s: Sleepscape 1:23:39

21d ago1:23:39

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It's always relaxing preparing for an ocean voyage with your submarine. Remixed, remastered, and a longer journey. The Professor hopes you enjoy your journey.

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The Dark Side of Houseplant Collection 18:51

1M ago18:51

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Marc Hachadourian, senior curator of orchids and director of glasshouse horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden, joins host Rachel Feltman to explore houseplant trends from the past and the present. Plus, they discuss how ethically sourcing your plants can prevent fad-driven overcollection. Listen to the New York Botanical Garden’s new podcas…

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