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Wonderology

hands building a DNA strand

Illustration by Amy Jones

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

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From Christianity Today in partnership with BioLogos
Hosts: Jesse Eubanks and Faith Stults
Producer: Jesse Eubanks
Associate Producer: McKenzie Hill
Executive Producer: Erik Petrik
Senior Producer: Matt Stevens
Music: Jesse Eubanks
Editing: Rachel Akers
Post-Production: Windhill Studios
Sound Design, Scoring, Mixing and Additional Story Editing: Mark Henry Phillips

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