Why do humans play God? Nick Spencer vs Emily Qureshi Hurst presented by Andy Kind

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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For too long, the ‘science and religion’ debate has fixated on creation, evolution, cosmology, miracles and quantum theory, and not enough on the essence of what it means to be human. But this is a mistake argues one of our guests today, Christian academic Nick Spencer, Senior Fellow at Theos, in his new book ‘Playing God: science, religion and the future of humanity.’ Back on the show is Emily Qureshi-Hurst expert on the philosophy of time. Emily is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Oriel College, University of Oxford and together Nick and Emily sort out the role of science and belief when it comes to questions of personhood and the future of humanity. Ably led by host Andy Kind, Unbelievable? digs back into that perennial question, ‘can science and religion come together - furiously or fruitfully - over the status and nature of what it means to be human’? #ai #eugenics #whatisahuman #scienceandreligion SOCIAL LINKS: Twitter: / unbelievablefe Facebook: / premierunbelievable Instagram: / premierunbelievable Tik Tok: / premierunbelievable • Subscribe to the Unbelievable? podcast: https://pod.link/267142101 • Support us: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate FOR NICK: Read Nick Spencer and Hannah Waite's book Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity Theos: https://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/ ⬇️ Follow Nick on Social Media X: @theosnick FOR EMIlY: Read Emily Qureshi-Hurst's book God, Salvation and the Problem of Spacetime Online: https://www.emilyqureshihurst.com/ At Oxford: https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/people/emily-qureshi-hurst ⬇️ Follow Emily on Social Media X: @equreshihurst For more on on this and related topics check out: 🎧 Generative Ai: second contact, avoiding the fate of Nokia, hacking the human operating system, and the resiliency of Western democracy Matters of Life and Death Podcast 📺 Can Science tell us what it means to be human? Philip Ball and Nick Spencer on The Big Conversation 📺 Are we just our brains? Sharon Dirckx and Emily Qureshi-Hurst on Unbelievable? Podcast

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0:25.0	We think, well, could we genetically edit human beings to augment them, to improve them?
0:30.0	Well, if we're doing that, what are we trying to improve them to be?
0:34.0	What kind of human beings are we trying to create here and should we be using genetic
0:38.8	modification to do so? Now that is an end's question that is a where are we going what are we trying to achieve type of question
0:45.6	It's an ethical question and I want to emphasize it's an ethical question that any and every
0:50.7	Philosophical and the religious discipline can contribute to.
0:54.3	I think it's that science fundamentally can't weigh on those debates and of course we have to come up
0:59.2	with some kind of definition of science in order to make that claim.
1:02.2	If we think of science as an
1:03.6	empirical methodology dealing with observation, experiment, data, then it can't be
1:10.0	it can't deal in ethical claims, it can't deal in claims about transcendence or beauty it's just not that kind of thing.
1:19.6	Hello and welcome back to Unbelievable the the show that gets Christians and non-Christians
1:24.6	talking to one another about the topics that matter to all of us.
1:29.2	I am your host Andy Kind and today we are returning to a topic that is is well trodden in the unbelievable
1:36.5	archives we have a vast archive of shows on unbelievable so if you want to check those out
1:41.7	you must feel very free. Today we are looking at science once again in one of its many iterations.
1:49.0	Science is the study of how the world works. It's about finding solutions to problems we encounter in the material and physical world.
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