Science and Faith
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We can't understand the Universe in any clear way without the supernatural.' - Astronomer Allan Sandage
The current scientific view of how the Universe began points to a definite moment of creation. Perhaps it even hints at the reality of a creator outside the physical world.
For many people today, whether they’re atheists or religious believers, science is locked in conflict with faith, and believing in the Big Bang contradicts the idea that God created the Universe.
The contributors to these programmes are scientists who accept the scientific account of the Big Bang, and they’re Christians who believe that God created the Universe: Dr. Peter Bussey is a particle physicist working on the search for the Higgs Boson; Gerald Gabrielse is Leverett Professor of Physics at Harvard University; Owen Gingerich is emeritus Professor of Astronomy and History of Science at Harvard University; Dr. Nick Saunders is a theologian and physicist who designed some of the instruments on the Large Hadron Collider; Dr. Jennifer Wiseman is Senior Project Scientist on the Hubble Space Telescope.
In this programme we explore how they see the relationship between science and faith.