Can Science Explain Why We Believe?
Series: The Really Big Questions
From: SoundVision Productions
Length: 00:53:30
Scanning the globe, The Really Big Questions explores the power of religion to create nurturing communities and vengeful armies, to console sufferers, and control nonconformists. We meet scientists searching for the underlying causes, and theologians, secular scholars and ordinary believers, who argue that these scientists are asking the wrong questions about the wrong things. Why do religions insist on truths that are either objectively false or unverifiable? Why is science unable to speak intelligibly about God, or Spirit, or the Divine? And can scientists trying to “explain” religion really do what they say?
The broadcast window for the series is October 15, 2009 - March 31, 2010. Go deeper http://www.trbq.org/stations
Station Contact: Ms Stevie Beck, stevie@SchardtMEDIA.org, 612.825.6363
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Scanning the globe, The Really Big Questions explores the power of religion to create nurturing communities and vengeful armies, to console sufferers, and control nonconformists. We meet scientists searching for the underlying causes, and theologians, secular scholars and ordinary believers, who argue that these scientists are asking the wrong questions about the wrong things. Why do religions insist on truths that are either objectively false or unverifiable? Why is science unable to speak intelligibly about God, or Spirit, or the Divine? And can scientists trying to “explain” religion really do what they say?
The broadcast window for the series is October 15, 2009 - March 31, 2010. Go deeper http://www.trbq.org/stations
Station Contact: Ms Stevie Beck, stevie@SchardtMEDIA.org, 612.825.6363
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Well BalancedA well balanced exploration of the mystery behind both the scientific and religious quest for ultimate meaning. |
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Well, yeah!!The WORLD needs to hear this topic more often. |
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Religion and science, or versus science? This piece is an ample exploration that may well invite an audience to seek more. I'd enjoy an encore.