Paul Davies and Jeremy England - The Origin of Life: Do we need a new theory for how life began?

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🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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The Big Conversation - Episode 5 | Season 3 Two leading voices in Origins of Life research, Paul Davies and Jeremy England, discuss whether a new understanding of physics could be the key to unlocking the mystery of how life first emerged. But where does this leave the concept of God as creator? England, who is an orthodox Rabbi, and Davies, who describes himself as agnostic, talk about the implications for religious belief. For bonus content, updates and more shows sign up at http://www.thebigconversation.show We'd love to know what you think of the conversation! Take our survey: https://unbelievable.memberstar.club/page/60ced39852f1205c44cc502f/2UoQg For Paul Davies: https://www.amazon.com/Demon-Machine-Information-Finally-Solving/dp/024130959X For Jeremy England: https://www.amazon.com/Every-Life-Fire-Thermodynamics-Explains/dp/1541699017 The Big Conversation is a video series from Unbelievable? featuring world-class thinkers across the religious and non-religious community. Exploring science, faith, philosophy and what it means to be human. The Big Conversation is produced by Premier in partnership with John Templeton Foundation. • 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.
0:20.8	Well hello and welcome to Unbelievable with me Justin Browley, it's the show that
0:24.9	brings you conversations that matter every week and today the final of our summer of science
0:30.4	dialogues as I bring you episode 5 of the Big Conversation from Unbelievable and brought
0:36.1	you in partnership with the John Templeton Foundation.
0:39.1	I shall introduce my guests Paul Davies and Jeremy Invin very shortly.
0:43.6	Now we're going along on the show today so no feedback on today's program it's a really
0:47.7	deep dive but we would love to hear your thoughts about today's show through our survey.
0:53.3	We're running a listener survey with each big conversation episode so wherever you stand
0:58.8	we want to hear from you.
1:00.4	The link is with the podcast info today and there's also the link there to sign up to the
1:04.9	big conversation and be notified of all the great shows and other bonus content as well.
1:10.6	That's at thebigconversation.show.
1:13.5	So thanks for being with us and let's leap in.
1:19.2	The Big Conversation is all about exploring the biggest questions of science, faith and
1:23.6	philosophy with leading thinkers across the religious and non-religious spectrum and today
1:29.3	we're exploring the origins of life and asking do we need a new theory for how life began?
1:41.8	This season is being recorded remotely for obvious reasons but the silver lining is that
1:46.2	it allows us to bring fascinating voices together from all over the world and joining me today
1:51.4	are Paul Davies and Jeremy England.
1:54.0	Paul Davies is professor of physics at Arizona State University as well as being the director
1:58.5	of beyond the Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science.
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