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Free Thinking: Religion and Science

Religion and Science

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Is the idea that religion and science are at odds a myth?

Chris Harding asks Nicholas Spencer why he thinks we've got the relationship between science and religion all wrong.

Nicholas Spencer, Emily Qureshi-Hurst and Philip Ball join Christopher Harding for a conversation about the nature of reality – as science reveals it, as religion reveals it, and how the world might look if we treat science and religion not as competitors but as collaborators; a cosmic dynamic duo.

Magesteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion by Nicholas Spencer is out now. 

Producer: Ruth Watts 

You can find a collection of programmes in which Free Thinking explores religious belief on the programme website and available on BBC Sounds and the Arts & Ideas podcast https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03mwxlp

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