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On All Things Considered this week, (Sunday 8 February at 8.30am), Roy Jenkins and a panel of guests explore whether there is really a conflict between believing in God and believing in Darwinian evolution.

This week marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the man most associated with the theory of evolution.

It is 150 years since his groundbreaking work On the Origin of Species first appeared. Yet according to research just published, around half of the population of this country remains sceptical about Darwinism.

There are persistent calls for creationism to be taught in schools alongside evolution, and for many an understanding of how the world came into existence has become a central article of religious faith. Why is this and why does the debate still rage?

Joining Roy Jenkins is one of the authors of that fresh research, Dr Denis Alexander, Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge.

Paul Taylor, of the organisation Answers in Genesis.

Richard Paterson, of the British Humanist Association, and

Dr John Weaver, principal of the South Wales Baptist College who's preparing to lecture in Oxford on The Challenge of Evolutionary Theory for the 21st Century Church.