Unbelievable? 17 Apr 2010 - Are we alone in the universe? Paul Davies & John Lennox

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🗓️ 23 June 2014

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What does it take for life to get going in our universe? Is there intelligence in the stars or right under our nose? Renowned astrophysicist Paul Davies chats to Oxford Professor of Mathematics John Lennox. A popular science author, Davies is also the Chair of the SETI post detection task force. His latest book "The Eerie Silence" which marks SETI's 50th anniversary examines the likelihood of the universe producing life elsewhere. John Lennox is a Christian Mathematician and philosopher. He is the author of "God's Undertaker: has science buried God?" and has debated Richard Dawkins on several occasions. Davies' work on the fine tuning of the universe for life has been sympathetic to theism. In this programme Lennox challenges Davies to look to design not just in cosmology but in the cell. They also chat about what the discovery of ET would mean for Christian theology. For Paul Davies see http://cosmos.asu.edu/ For his book "The Eerie Silence" click here For John Lennox see http://johnlennox.org/ For more Christian/non-Christian debate visit http://www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable or get the podcast http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or via iTunes If you enjoyed this programme you may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 8 Nov 2008 Dawkins & John Lennox's Oxford debate - a review with interviews and comment. Unbelievable? 14 Mar 2009 Tuning of the Universe - is it evidence of God? Nicholas Beale vs Julian Baggini Join the discussion at the "Unbelievable?" group of the Premier Community http://www.premiercommunity.org.uk/group/unbelievable

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0:30.0	Well, welcome along, Saturday afternoon, and you're welcome to the show. It's
0:35.2	unbelievable with me Justin Briley and every week we look at matters of faith
0:39.8	belief, often touching on science and that's certainly true today.
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0:53.4	dot UK forward slash unbelievable great to have you with me here for the next hour and a half
0:58.0	you're unbelievable and I'm been looking forward to this show so much. Paul Davies joins us on the show today.
1:05.7	He's an internationally acclaimed physicist.
1:08.0	Chairs Seti's Post Detection Task Group will find out exactly what that's all about.
1:12.6	And he's here because his latest book is The Erie Silence.
1:15.6	Are we alone in the universe?
1:17.2	marking the 50th anniversary of the Search for
1:19.2	Extraterrestrial Intelligence, it raises all kinds of questions, philosophical ultimate meaning questions,
1:25.8	what's the probability of life emerging elsewhere in the universe?
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