Unbelievable? 3 Jul 2010 - Is God a failed hypothesis? Pr 2 - Victor Stenger vs. David Bartholomew

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🗓️ 23 June 2014

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Can we use science to ascertain whether prayer works? Data from a series of prayer experiments is part of the evidence that US atheist scientist Victor Stenger uses to build the case against God in his best-selling book "God: The failed hypothesis". David Bartholomew is a Christian and Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics. He has written a paper contesting Stenger's use of data to disprove God as invalid. They debate the issues on whether we can detect or disprove God using scientific methods. For Victor Stenger see http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/VWeb/Media.html For David Bartholomew see http://www.djbartholomew.com/ For the Science and Christian Belief Journal his paper will be published in http://www.scienceandchristianbelief.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? 26 Jun 2010 - "Is God a Failed hypothesis - philosophically?" Atheist US physicist Victor Stenger vs. Prof of Sociology Steve Fuller Unbelievable? 14 Mar 2009 - Fine Tuning of the Universe - is it evidence of God? Nicholas Beale vs Julian Baggini To join the discussion visit the "Unbelievable?" Group of the Premier Community http://www.premiercommunity.org.uk/group/unbelievable

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0:00.0	We turned to God and prayed. My dad committed his life to Jesus.
0:04.4	She danced in worship with members of the... My mom came to faith as my dad's...
0:08.0	God had answered our prayers. Glory to God. God answers prayer.
0:12.0	Be a visible witness.
0:15.0	Share your answered prayer.
0:17.0	Every brick in the eternal wall of answered prayer
0:20.0	represents a story of hope. answered prayer
0:27.0	dot org.
0:30.0	welcome welcome to the show that gets you thinking here on Premier Christian
0:34.3	radio. It's unbelievable, a show that regularly brings together Christians and non-Christians for
0:38.7	discussion and debate. And we've got a cracker of a show lined up for you today as we had last week.
0:44.8	As I continue to chat with my special guest over from the States at the moment, Victor Stenga,
0:50.4	a US physicist and an atheist and author of God the failed hypothesis.
0:55.4	Let me tell you though what we're talking about on today's program.
0:58.8	You're unbelievable!
1:01.0	Well in conversation with Victor this week is David Bartholomew who is a Christian himself.
1:07.0	He's the Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics and he is due shortly to publish a paper critiquing Victor's work
1:17.0	particularly in regards to his book God the failed hypothesis which we've been
1:21.4	looking at across these two weeks.
1:23.2	We're going to find out why David objects to the way Victor uses data and statistics in making
1:29.8	his case against God and it'll just throw up all kinds of questions like can we, you know, analyze
1:35.4	scientifically things like whether intercessory prayer works. What about if you like
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