Does Science ignore the evidence of Religious Experience?

Sir Alister Hardy, a distinguished biologist, believes that it does. After a life's work devoted to documenting natural history, he is now making a survey of religious experiences which he hopes will show there is more to our lives than the actions of physics and chemistry. He believes that religion is an essential factor in our survival.

A film showing his work and the strange experiences of his subjects, from faith-healing to meditation, is followed by a discussion in which Sir Alister Hardy argues with Professor John Taylor, Professor D.M. MacKay and Rev Stephen Sykes, Dean of St John's College, Cambridge, as to whether a scientific examination of religion can in fact be made.

The FRS who puts religion under his microscope: pages 8-9