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Unbelievable?

Who invented the universe? Alister McGrath & Jim Al-Khalili

Unbelievable?

Premier Unbelievable?

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2015

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Theologian Alister McGrath's new book 'Inventing The Universe' weaves his own story of conversion from atheism to Christianity while studying science as a student, into the questions that modern science continues to provoke around God, atheism and meaning. Physicist and radio presenter Jim Al-Khalili is the president of the British Humanist Association. Jim interacts with Alister on whether science excludes God, whether theism makes most sense of the nature of our universe and what it would take for him to abandon his atheism and believe. For Inventing the Universe: https://www.hodder.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781444798470 For Alister McGrath: http://alistermcgrath.weebly.com/ For Jim Al-Khalili: http://www.jimal-khalili.com/ For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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Hello, I'm Justin Briley, and welcome along. You've found unbelievable and this is all you'll need for the next hour and a half as I guide you through another interesting discussion between a Christian and a non-Christian.

0:41.6

Unbelievable part of faith explored every Saturday afternoon

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on Premier Christian Radio, the place where Christians and non-christians get together

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for dialogue and debate. You can catch up on what's been happening recently on the program by going to the

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website and downloading past programs, going to the podcast, all that kind of thing,

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Premier ChristianRadio.com slash unbelievable.

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There's links there as well to features, articles, blogs, the unbelievable. There's links there as well to features articles

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blogs the unbelievable DVD from last year and more. Don't forget also we'll

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be hearing some of your feedback to last week's program later on in the show

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lots of feedback to the Mormon

1:14.2

Christian debate that we had last week, so look out for that as well. Coming up

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later on today on Premier Christian Radio, the profile will feature two people. We'll be hearing firstly about the Connor Project,

1:24.8

and then Loretta will be speaking to Simon May, who's the composer of the EastEnders theme tune, interestingly.

1:30.8

So look out for that between four and five. Right now though, it's time for

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