The scientists and public figures Richard Dawkins and Francis Collins recently met on a video call to discuss issues of biology, belief and the Covid pandemic. Dawkins is famous as an evolutionary biologist, and also as an energetic apologist for atheism, while Francis Collins is a geneticist and former head of the Human Genome Project, and well known for promoting…
‘Unbelievably, a collection of 66 books last edited sometime in the 4th century AD is still the world’s No. 1 best seller.’ So begins a new weekly podcast that promises to take listeners on a road trip through the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, leaving one significant item of baggage at home – religion. Wholly […]
Richard Burridge, the biblical scholar, author, and former chair of Christian Evidence, pays tribute to the Queen and her deeply held Christian faith in her Platinum Jubilee year. As a child, I was brought up to consider the Royal Family a bunch of rich freeloaders living it up at the expense of us taxpayers – […]
In March, we hosted an online series of Tuesday evening conversations, focusing on four of the great Questions of our Times. The series of free-to-view webinars explored some of today’s big questions with leaders in the fields of physics, astrophysics, social robotics, and in the religion and science debate. The videos for all the webinars are […]
