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Atoms, Aliens and the Meaning of Everything: Paul Ewart vs Simon Walker-Samuel hosted by Sam McKee

Unbelievable?

Premier Unbelievable?

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Premier Unbelievable guest-hosted by Dr. Sam McKee heads to John Colet School in Wendover, UK for a lively debate on science, religion and reality with Oxford atomic & laser physicist Prof Paul Ewart (Christian; former Faraday Institute director, ex-president of Christians in Science) and UCL biophysics & imaging expert Prof Simon Walker-Samuel (trustee, Humanists UK). Together they explore whether science and faith conflict or complement each other. From fine-tuning and emergence to AI, digital twins in cancer care, consciousness and what it means to be human, our guests test big ideas with sharp student questions. Is “God of the gaps” a fair critique? Can love and morality be reduced to atoms—or do they point beyond materialism?

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Hello and welcome to Premier Unbelievable. I'm delighted to be here at John Collett School in Wendover

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with an outstanding

0:38.2

group of sickformers as we're tackling the question of science, religion and reality. Past, present and

0:45.3

future, a big, big topic and we've got some big, big guests with us. To my left, we've got Professor

0:50.2

Paul Ewert, Professor of Atomic and Laser Physics at Oxford University. And to my right, we've got Professor Simon Walker-Sam, who's Professor of Biosyphysics at UCL.

0:59.0

Can we give him a big welcome and round of applause?

1:06.0

How science and religion interrelates and the dynamics between them and how that works is such a big question.

1:15.9

It's been debated for many centuries now.

1:19.3

Looking at the present, asking what gives the best account of the real actual world that we live in?

1:26.0

Are these competing accounts or do these actually work together?

1:29.8

Well, Professor Paul Ewert is a believing and practicing Christian and Professor Sime Walker, Samuel is a

1:35.9

trustee with Humanist UK, so we've got very different ideas represented here. Asking the question as well,

1:41.5

what it means to be human in a world of space fairing traveling to the

1:45.9

moon and mars people living in low earth orbit for long periods of time genetic engineering

1:50.7

and advanced nanotechnology and of course artificial intelligence are raising real questions about

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