Polkinghorne Podcast

There are a whole host of Christian thinkers who have written books on the relationship between science and religion, though I have found none more helpful than Sir John Polkinghorne (and Alister McGrath). Those currently enrolled in Dr. V's Philosophy of Science course may be interested in this recent podcast interview with Polkinghorne, entitled "Quarks and Creation" (53 mins, transcript here if you prefer to read it). Here's the description:

Science and religion are often pitted against one another; but how do they complement, rather than contradict, one another? We learn how one man applies the deepest insights of modern physics to think about how the world fundamentally works, and how the universe might make space for prayer.

Enjoy!

Creation Trailer

Hello Philosophy Foosballers! I hope your summer is going swimmingly. In no time at all we will be back at Providence. In the meantime, check out this trailer for the movie Creation, a new bio-pic about Charles Darwin. We might have a public screening of this movie sometime in the Fall. It looks like it will stimulate some philosophical debate about the relationship between science and religion and, more specifically, between Christianity and Darwinian evolution.

Alvin Plantinga Debate With Dan Dennett On Science And Religion

At a recent meeting of the American Philosophical Society Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga debated Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the alleged conflict between science and religion. Apparently the debate was heated. You can download the audio file (the sound quality is not that great) here. What interested me most was an account I of the debate at prosblogion by a philosophy who writes an account sympathetic to Plantinga. The author writes anonomously because they believe their academic career would be at stake if it got out that they were sympathetic to Plantinga. Read the account here.

Here is my bias: Plantinga is awesome. Enough said.

Science and Religion

A debate between Alvin Plantinga and William Lane Craig versus Quentin Smith and Ricahrd Gale.