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The Forum: A Leap of Faith: Finding Common Ground Between Science and Religion

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Forum main image: particle collision illustration c/o CERN institute

05/12/2015 GMT

A Leap of Faith: Finding Common Ground Between Science and Religion

BBC World Service - The Forum, A Leap of Faith: Finding Common Ground Between Science and Religion

Can there be a common ground between science and religion?

The Forum comes from CERN, The European Council for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland and explores the challenge of finding common ground between science and religion.

Promoting a dialogue between science and religion has long been a challenging task- the two communities of thought often seem far apart. The Forum explores the challenge in a discussion recorded at CERN in Switzerland and asks not only why this dialogue is important but how it is working and where it might lead. CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research where physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Joining Bridget Kendall to discuss common ground between science and religion are: Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, a German particle physicist and the Director General of CERN; Marcelo Gleiser, professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College; Dr. Kusum Jain, a renowned Indian scholar of Jain Philosophy and director of the Centre of Advanced Study in Philosophy at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur; Monsignor Tomasz Trafny, Head of Science and Faith, Vatican City State.

And there is poetry, especially written for the programme, by British poet Murray Lachlan Young.

(Photo: illustration of first proton-lead ion collisions. © 2012 CERN, for the benefit of the ALICE Collaboration)

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