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Science vs. Religion?

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What is the relationship between science and religion in the major traditions: Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Chinese traditions as well as Christianity? What are...

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Science & Religion (Part II)

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What is the relationship between science and religion in the major traditions: Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Chinese traditions as well as Christianity? What are...

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Science & Religion (Part I)

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The relationship between science and theology has easy conflicts and hard harmonies. Is consonance possible? What is consonance in science and religion that we should quest...

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Why Consonance in Science and Theology?

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Season 18

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What is consonance in science and theology that some say we should quest for it? Human harmony among diverse beliefs is laudatory, but artificial harmony between science and...

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What is Consonance in Science and Theology?

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Science and theology have a tumultuous history of conflict and strife on the one hand, and attempts to seek consilience and consonance on the other. Can philosophy help...

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Can Philosophy Clarify Science vs. Religion?

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Science and theology both reach for the heavens. Both seek the deep truths of existence and human life. Scientific facts, once demonstrated, are recognized widely as correct,...

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Why Are Science and Theology so Fascinating?

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Science and God

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How do physicists and philosophers who believe in God harmonize the discoveries of cosmology with the doctrine of creation? How does cosmology enhance or erode their belief...

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Cosmology and Creation

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Although many physicists, astronomers, cosmologists do not believe in God, many do. Why the stark division — divided both by what they believe and by how they interpret the...

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Is the Universe Theologically Ambiguous?

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Scientists split on whether the universe confirms or denies God. Though most leading scientists do not believe in God, some do. What can we learn from the dispute?

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Is the Universe Theologically Ambiguous?

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Season 17

26:48

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Science and religion each claims dominion over deep reality. But science and religion are not parallel. All should believe science, humanity’s common language, while...

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Can God and Science Mix?

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Season 16

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Should science and God interact? Many say no while others claim that science describes a world showing ‘God’s handiwork’, or a world that works just fine...

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Can Science Talk God?

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Clearly, religion must speak with science: if religion claims to be an approach to the entirety of existence, then it must embed the discoveries and insights of science....

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Does God Mix with Science?

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How Science and Religion Think

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To do good science, science need not speak with religion. Many scientists, even believers in God, state that science can comfortably ignore religion. A minority claim that...

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Should Science Even Talk to Religion? (Part 2)

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To do good science, science need not speak with religion. Many scientists, even believers in God, state that science can comfortably ignore religion. A minority claim that...

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Should Science Even Talk to Religion? (Part 1)

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Science and religion—each pursues large truths and offers total solutions. Science works; that’s for sure. Religion? Not so sure. What are the thought processes, the...

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Why Science and Religion Think Differently

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To do good theology, religion must speak with science if only to avoid the embarrassment of supernatural explanations when natural explanations are doing just fine. If...

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How Should Religion Talk to Science?

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Science and religion-each pursues Big Truth and offers total solutions. Science works. That’s for sure. Religion? Not so sure. Does any reality exist beyond the...

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Why Science and Religion Think Differently

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Season 10

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The New Atheism

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There have always been people who did not believe in God, but science today has made it more acceptable to be an atheist. As science continues to explain progressively more...

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There have always been people who did not believe in God, but science today has made it more acceptable to be an atheist. As science continues to explain progressively more...

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The Rise of Scientific Atheism (Part I)

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What’s ‘new’ about the New Atheists? Atheism has been around for a long time. There are surely new attitudes and confidence. Are there also new evidence and...

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What’s the New Atheism?

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I hope God exists, which is why I listen to atheists and follow their arguments. If hope trumps reason I may be entombed in false belief.

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What’s the New Atheism?

Episode 04

Season 12

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Limits of Science

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How far can science go? How much can science discover? Must all truth come from science? Are there boundaries to science? Are there truths, real truths, beyond science? Not...

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What Are the Scope and Limits of Science?

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If we seek answers to ultimate questions of human existence, can science provide them? Which of them? Ultimate questions include morality and art as well as purpose or...

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Can Science Provide Ultimate Answers?

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How much can science discover? Are there boundaries to science? Are there truths, real truths, beyond science?

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What are the Scope and Limits of Science?

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Season 07

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A salon with celebrated inventors of alternative futures. Science fiction is really a look at human history, society, and even human nature. Three authors of popular...

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Is Science Fiction Science?

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Science and Religion

Explore themes of Science and Religion:

Science vs. Religion?

Science & Religion (Part II)

Science & Religion (Part I)

Why Consonance in Science and Theology?

Science and God

Cosmology and Creation

Is the Universe Theologically Ambiguous?

Is the Universe Theologically Ambiguous?

How Science and Religion Think

Should Science Even Talk to Religion? (Part 2)

Should Science Even Talk to Religion? (Part 1)

Why Science and Religion Think Differently

The New Atheism

The Rise of Scientific Atheism (Part II)

The Rise of Scientific Atheism (Part I)

What’s the New Atheism?

Limits of Science

What Are the Scope and Limits of Science?

Can Science Provide Ultimate Answers?

What are the Scope and Limits of Science?