In the Slipstream of God
Mark Tully meets an artist and a scientist who argue that religion and science are entangled and that the quest for knowledge has followed in the wake of spiritual curiosity.
Mark Tully meets an artist and a scientist who argue that religion and science have always been entangled, and that our quest for knowledge follows in the wake of spiritual curiosity.
Andrew Briggs, Professor of Nanomaterials at the University of Oxford, and the artist, poet and writer Roger Wagner, renowned particularly for his religious paintings, explain to Mark why they believe that it's been religion which has led the seminal developments in our empirical understanding of the world we live in. Together they challenge the perception that the two disciplines are at loggerheads.
With the help of music from Beethoven and Charles Ives, and words from John Keats, George Herbert and Albert Einstein, Mark joins his guests in seeking the underlying principles which have bound religion and science together in the past, and might do so again in the future.
Producer: Adam Fowler
A Unique production for 大象传媒 Radio 4.
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Music Played
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Charles Ives
The Unanswered Question
Performer: Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic Orchestra.- Symphonies No. 2 & 3.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven聮s 9th Symphony -4th Movement
Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein.- Beethoven Symphonie No. 9.
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Mrs Mary Lee and Congregation
Jesus Is Real To Me
- Southern Gospel.
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Barnby
Psalm 24. The Earth is the Lord's
Performer: Choir of Kings College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks.- The Psalms of David from King's (Vol 1).
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven 9th Symphony - Final Movement
Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein.- Beethoven Symphonie No. 9.
Readings
Title: Lamia
Author: John Keats
Published by Penguin Classics
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Title: The Pulley
Author: George Herbert
Published by Penguin Classics
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Title: Blue Spotted Tail
Performed by: Fleet Foxes
Album: Helplessness Blues
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Title: Wonders and the Orders of Nature
Author: Katharine Park and Lorraine Daston
Published by Zone Books
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Title: The Microscope Made Easy
Author: Henry Baker
Published by Science Heritage Ltd
Title: Credo
Author: Albert Einstein
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Broadcasts
- Sun 26 Jun 2016 06:05大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sun 26 Jun 2016 23:30大象传媒 Radio 4