Classic Replay: Is science at odds with Christianity? PZ Myers & Denis Alexander

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🗓️ 12 January 2021

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Atheist Biologist PZ Myers is an outspoken critic of Christianity. He believes that faith in God and science are contradictory. He debates theistic evolutionist Denis Alexander, (now Emeritus) Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion. Is science is at odds with Christianity as PZ claims? They touch on Fine Tuning, Rationality and whether God is an inference to the best explanation. For PZ Myers Blog: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ For The Faraday Institute: http://www.faraday-institute.org/ USA listeners check out our new USA website for exclusive resources and to support us: http://www.unbelievable.show Subscribe to our newsletter and receive the free Unbelievable? e-book ‘In Conversation With…’ https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter Support the show: https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable For more faith debates visit 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 Broiley.
0:16.6	I'm Ruth Jackson, part of the unbelievable team and you are listening to a classic replay
0:21.0	program from the archives.
0:22.8	The episode you are about to hear was first broadcast on Premiere Christian Radio on the
0:26.9	27th of June 2009.
0:29.4	It explores where the science is at odds with Christianity and the guests are atheist
0:33.7	P.Z. Myers and Christian Dennis Alexander.
0:36.7	You can get in touch with the show and listen to more episodes at premierChristianRadio.com
0:41.9	slash unbelievable.
0:47.4	That is the title of the show unbelievable and we're asking today is Christian faith at
0:51.5	odds with science.
0:53.1	While P.Z. Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, he's
0:58.2	an outspoken atheist regularly blogging on science and faith.
1:03.2	We're going to be hearing his views quite a controversial figure in many ways.
1:06.8	Dr. Dennis Alexander is our Christian here in the studio in London.
1:10.6	He's director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.
1:13.4	He's done a lot of writing recently on evolution aims to show that Christian faith is perfectly
1:18.1	compatible with an evolutionary scientific understanding of the world.
1:22.3	It's going to be a fascinating discussion as you join us across the next hour and a
1:26.4	half here on unbelievable.
1:30.3	P.Z. you are first time guest on this program but certainly not unknown especially in the
1:36.4	blogger sphere world because you run the science blog for ingula.
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