Science

God, Big Bang and a fine-tuned universe

Richard Swinburne, a professor of philosophy at Oxford University and the author of The Existence of God, recently talked to journalist Nigel Bovey about whether there is good evidence for believing there is a God. More here

Higgs disagrees with Dawkins on science and religion

Are the strident attacks of biologist Richard Dawkins on religious belief signs of fundamentalism? In an interview given to Spanish newspaper El Mundo at the end of 2012, Professor Peter Higgs seemed to think so. More here

Making the case for God

What evidence is there for the existence not just of God, but for the God believed in by Christians? In this summary of his presentation in Imperial College, London, Professor William Lane Craig presents seven arguments for God and then invites questions from the student audience. More here

There’s something out there

Professor Tony Hewish has spent a lifetime staring into space, pioneering technologies and catching the wonder of the heavens on his radio telescopes. In 1974 he won a Nobel prize for the discovery of pulsars, thinking them at first to be little green men. Rather than focus on intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe, astrophysicist Professor Tony Hewish concentrates on the intelligence behind the Universe, as he tells Nigel Bovey More here

Astronomer considers our cosmic habitat

Master of Trinity College and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at Cambridge University, former President of the Royal Society, peer of the realm and Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees enjoys stratospheric success. Earlier this year he received the Templeton Prize for his contribution to ‘enhancing life’s spiritual dimension’. He talks to Nigel Bovey. More here

Multiple sclerosis… and faith

Neurologist Dr Alasdair Coles of Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, talks to Nigel Bovey about his work in the area of multiple sclerosis, and about his faith. More here

For the (fossil) record

From a schoolboy fossil-hunter on a Dorset beach to a world authority scouring sites in Canada and China, Simon Conway Morris has seen his career evolve. The Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at Cambridge University talks to Nigel Bovey about his discoveries in the worlds of faith and science. More here

Has science buried God?

On the day in October 2008 that it was announced that Richard Dawkins, Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, was backing an atheistic bus poster campaign, he and fellow Oxford academic John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics, met in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History to debate the question, 'Has science buried God?' More here

Advances in medicine and the quest for wisdom

Advances in biotechnology and molecular biology are revolutionising what is possible in the world of medicine. Lee Rayfield, Bishop of Swindon, looks at the ethical and philosophical questions this raises. More here

‘The universe is not an accident’

Did God create the Universe? Does science contradict the Bible? Did Adam and Eve exist? Can a person be a Christian and believe in the theory of evolution? What about the big bang? Nigel Bovey talks to theologian Alister McGrath about issues of faith and science. More here

‘Science does not exclude God’

'People like simple answers to hard questions. That’s why Dawkins is so popular,' says theologian Alister McGrath. Nigel Bovey talks to this outspoken critic of Richard Dawkins. More here

The impact of science on faith

John Polkinghorne, theoretical physicist and theologian, talks to Nigel Bovey about the connections between science and the Christian faith. More here

The function of faith in science

According to religion's critics, religion and science are two conflicting worlds that never meet. Religion is outdated, irrational and irrelevant, while science is superior, rational and has all the answers. Nigel Bovey talks to John Polkinghorne, theoretical physicist and theologian. More here

DNA is the language of God

Human genome scientist Dr Francis Collins talks about DNA, Christianity, Creation and other subjects with Nigel Bovey. More here

The God delusion?

Alister McGrath, the theologian and apologist, spoke about the atheist challenge to faith in November 2009 in a lecture entitled 'The God Delusion? The rationality of faith'. Read the text of the lecture or listen to it here. More here