As the Pope ends his visit to Britain, historian Dr Thomas Dixon delves into the BBC's archive to explore the troubled relationship between religion and science. From the creationists of America to the physicists of the Large Hadron Collider, he traces the expansion of scientific knowledge and asks whether there is still room for god in the modern world.
The relationship between science and religion has been long and troubled: from the condemnation of Galileo by the Catholic Church in 17th century Italy, through the clashes between creationism and evolution in 20th century America, right up to recent claims that the universe does not need god.
Delving through the rich archive of programmes from Horizon and BBC Science, Thomas Dixon looks at what lies behind this difficult relationship. Using original footage from 1925, he tells the story of John Scopes, a Tennessee teacher who was tried for teaching evolution. He sees the connections between religion and American politics in the story of a more recent court case -- the trial of Intelligent Design. He looks at what happens when new scientific discoveries start to explain events that were once seen as the workings of god, and explains how some of our most famous scientists have seen god in the grandest laws of the universe. Finally, he finds intriguing evidence from brain science which hints that belief in god is here to stay.
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Part 4
48 comments:
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Nice post :D
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Love BBC, their youtube vids are always professional with enough style to spark interest.
the higher ups would love to just remove god from out society.
Really? Hm, I always assumed that with enough time, religion would die out and be nothing more than a distant memory just like all prior religions.
I'll make sure to watch the rest of the videos after class.
this is fascinating to me
I don't mind people who want to believe that God created the Universe, if that's what they want to think. What does annoy me is the ones that say because the Big Bang theory is just a theory, then it's not true and it must be God who created the Universe.
Great post as usual.
Sad but True bro
this is gonna be controversial
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pretty cool man!
New post up on my blog!!
interesting article you have here, thanks.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing man, also thanks for all the great comments on my blog, I hope you continue to check it out!
I kinda wish religion would be gone. I don't see it as a good thing. Even though its said that my country is 1# place with the most non-belivers I can say. It's actually a good thing. Our folk doens't fight over religion and over others beliefs a lot. I don't see a lot of problems over this. But maybe it has created a bit more of other knd of problems. I wonder what future brings tho.
looks interesting, i'll have to watch this when i have a bit more time :)
First part looks interesting - bookmarking to come back!
trolls trolling trolls, damn those bbc!
Thought provoking posts as always.
interesting stuff
interesting, will check
Great post as usual.
take a look in mine too
i hope it ends
i loved this documentary. i am always intrigued about the science and religion.
Really interesting!! Hey waht are your thoughts on 2012!?
i always knew science would take over
Eh, not as interested in this one, I'm afraid. Don't care for religious discussion. I'll await for your "Through the wormhole" series instead. (Even though I seen almost all of them haha)
And to reply to your comment on your last post:
I knew most of the discoveries were educated guesses, and that's as far as I knew about our progress in space information. What I was taught in school was so minute, that while I realized we made a few more discoveries here and there, I did not know we had this much information on our solar system and distant galaxies. Thus, why I am so thankful for oyu showing me (and everyone else) the series, "How the Universe Works." :D
keep up the great work man, i love your blog..
I am an atheist and I think this would be interesting.
Thank you for putting these so much in convenient order..
So much stuff to go through.
Hey, I'm back from the dead! Come and visit me!
i was sad when you ran out of universe blogs, i guess this will have to do, keep up the good work
Aaaww c'mon, I catched a bad cold, I'm not in to discuss tonight ^^
siq post bro
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god is dead. Daily love!
Mmmm...I'm torn to be honest.
NO FUCKIN SAUSAGES TODAY!
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Cool post bro!
I was training to be a priest once... Will answer any questions!
aww..
either epic trolling or this is some real philosophical shit.
Some interesting points in your post.
I'll give these vids a view.
my poor grandma..she clicked all over your ads
Really enjoying your blog, daily thought provoking series! Keep up the awesomeness!
Mike,
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