A small army of PhD scientists spent 17 years building a protein motor that limps 11 steps down a DNA strand. Your cells build billions of motors—perfectly, instantly, with no research budget. Coincidence, or design?

Astronomer Hugh Ross and biochemist Fazale “Fuz” Rana unpack a Nature Nanotechnology study from Lund University, where a synthetic protein “walking machine” called Tumbleweed was engineered from scratch to move along DNA. They break down how it works—and why it makes a compelling case for a Creator.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Tumbleweed was built, and why it needed a precisely timed chemical wash just to wobble 11 steps

• Why AI (AlphaFold) was needed to do what natural motors do flawlessly on their own

• Why this experiment weakens the “evolution cobbled it together” argument

• What it means to be made in God’s image, and why humans alone do science

• What this discovery means for the biblical case for a Creator

• The future of nanotech medicine

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📄 The paper discussed in this episode:

doi.org/10.1038/s41565-026-02...

📖 The Cell’s Design: How Chemistry Reveals the Creator’s Artistry

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📖 Creating Life in the Lab: How New Discoveries in Synthetic Biology Make a Case for the Creator

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 – Intro

01:16 – The Discovery: A DNA-Walking Protein Motor

02:46 – What Is the Testable Creation Model?

09:42 – How the Protein Motor Tumbleweed Was Built

11:58 – Engineering DNA as a Walking Track

18:00 – Tumbleweed vs. Real Cellular Motors (Kinesin, ATP Synthase)

25:19 – Does This Prove Evolution or Intelligent Design?

29:45 – Human Exceptionalism and the Image of God

38:38 – Design Evidence Across Science (DNA to Galaxies)

44.43 – Closing Thoughts: Knowing the Creator

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