Has Neuroscience killed God? Dr Alasdair Coles vs Martyn Frame - Unbelievable? 21 Jan 2012

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🗓️ 23 June 2014

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Continuing our Mind, Body and Soul month of programming on Premier, Justin is joined by a Christian and an atheist as they discuss whether people's religious experiences can be explained by brain activity alone. Revd Dr Aladair Coles is an academice neurologist in Cambridge and part of the Faraday Institute's Test of Faith initiative. He says that even though neuroscience has helped us understand the brain activity of religious people, atheist scientists such as Sam Harris have not thereby disproved God. Martyn Frame is a psychological therapist and atheist. He believes that people's brain states fully explain their religious experiences and, in any case, the Christian God would not have given us the brains we have if He existed. For Premier's Mind, Body & Soul resources http://www.premier.org.uk/mind For Alasdair Coles http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/faraday/Biography.php?ID=60 For Test of Faith lectures by Alasdair http://www.testoffaith.com/resources/resources.aspx?resourceByTag=true&tagid=24 For Martyn Frame see http://www.freeoffaith.net For more Christian/non-Christian debate visit http://www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable or get the MP3 podcast http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes If you enjoyed this programme you may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 24 Jul 2010 - Psychology of Religion "Is religious belief a trick of the mind?" Atheist Martyn Frame & Christian Joanna Collicut McGrath Unbelievable? 24 Jul 2010 - Wired for God? The Biology of Spiritual Experience Join the conversation at http://www.premiercommunity.org.uk/group/unbelievable and via Facebook and Twitter

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0:31.0	And welcome along to unbelievable with me Justin Briley, your host through till 4 o'clock. Hello and
0:35.0	we're welcome along to unbelievable with me Justin Briley your host through till 4 o'clock and you can find us online at premiere dotorg
0:38.0	UK slash unbelievable and the last week or two has been a very interesting
0:42.0	period online there's been a very interesting period online.
0:43.4	There's been a lot of reaction to an interview I took with Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in
0:48.2	Seattle, which went online last week and I'll be reflecting a little more on some of that towards the end of today's show.
0:54.8	But it's a regular show in terms of it being a Christian non-Christian discussion program today.
0:59.2	Continuing our mind, body and soul season here on Premier Christian radio.
1:03.7	Let me introduce my guests for today.
1:05.8	You're unbelievable!
1:08.3	Well, Reverend Dr Aliz de Coles
1:10.0	is an academic neurologist in Cambridge. His primary research interest is the immunology
1:15.1	and treatment of multiple sclerosis. Well he's a Christian and he's a contributor to the Faraday
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