Mark Tully invites us to challenge perceived truths in religion and science. He hears how faith is not synonymous with certainty, and how a lack of doubt, whether religious or scientific, is detrimental to both.

Mark is joined by Andrew Briggs, Professor of Nanomaterials at the University of Oxford, a practicing Christian and co-author of It Keeps Me Seeking: The Invitation from Science, Philosophy and Religion. They discuss the book's premise that a scientific outlook is not an alternative to a religious one, and that scientific knowledge does not replace the Great Truths of religion. Professor Briggs maintains that science is, “studying how God makes the world work,” and talks of, “a glorious entanglement” between religious and scientific questioning.

This entanglement is explored through the words of Mark Van Doren, Walt Whitman and the former Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sachs - as well as the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Joseph Haydn and Charlie Parker.

Readers: Jasper Britton, Frank Stirling and Philippa Geering

Presented by Mark Tully
Produced by Adam Fowler

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