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Unbelievable?

Classic Replay: Hawking, God & the Universe

Unbelievable?

Premier Unbelievable?

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

First broadcast Sep 2010. Justin is joined for first time by famed physicist (now a Nobel prize winner) Sir Roger Penrose. He was joined by scientist theologian Alister McGrath to debate a book by Stephen Hawking that had been causing a stir - The Grand Design - and what it had to say about God, the universe and much more. More Resources: • For exclusive resources and to support us: USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow Rest of the World: https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable • For our regular Newsletter: https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter • For more faith debates: http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable • Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UnbelievableJB • Twitter https://twitter.com/unbelievablejb • Insta https://www.instagram.com/justin.brierley

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0:00.0

You're listening to Unbelievable with Justin Browley.

0:18.6

Hello and welcome back to this week's classic replay, Justin here again to introduce this

0:22.7

week's show from the archive.

0:24.6

I really enjoyed hosting this one back in September 2010 when I was joined for the first time

0:29.8

by famed physicist and now a Nobel Prize winner, Sir Roger Penrose.

0:34.8

He was joined by scientist, theologian, Alistair McGraft to debate the recent book by Stephen

0:39.8

Hawking's had been causing the stir at the time, the grand design, and what it had to

0:44.5

say about God, the universe and much more.

0:47.8

So thanks for tuning in and don't forget you can find many more shows from the unbelievable

0:51.7

archive at premierchristianradio.com slash unbelievable.

0:59.2

Roger tell us a little bit about your background because I don't know that you particularly

1:03.9

have any faith of any kind, but your passion has always been science.

1:08.3

When did that begin?

1:09.4

Well I had a father who was a scientist, he was a professor of human genetics at University

1:16.2

College London and that was more on the biological side.

1:22.4

His family came from completely non-scientific background, he was a quaker.

1:27.6

His family was quaker, he was really more of an atheist actually, but he was very much

1:31.8

held to quaker values and that sort of thing and that was quite strong with him.

1:40.7

I was brought up without any religious background, certainly scientific, both my parents, my mother

1:50.1

was medically trained and she also was not religious, although I don't think her parents were

1:57.7

as far as I'm aware, her mother was actually an anti-Semitic Jew.

2:04.2

He's been in Christ's head for many years.

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