Something new from the BBC? - well I lived in hope. The End of God was from QMC's Historian Dr. Thomas Dixon; no doubt built on his "Science and Religion: A very Short Introduction". I guess it was a cheap make for the BBC as he had much material from the 50 years of archived Horizon programmes.
However there was nothing new in his programme to move us on. Going back to Darwin, Huxley and Wilberforce he showed that there had been much heat and not a lot of light shed on the debate between those who hold on to a literal view of Genesis and those who don't. He had a pop at religious experience and miracles drawing on previous Horizons which exposed such things to the scientific method.
But none of this really helps. We know that we can't prove the existence of God according to any scientific method. If we could it wouldn't be "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" Heb 11:1
Yes we know that the god of the gaps keeps getting smaller and the Intelligent Design mob have fallen for thinking they have found a special gap....almost certainly not is the conclusion from the programme and quite right too.
Yet he concludes with the suggestion that we, or at least some of us, are genetically predisposed to believe in God...well there is a new twist on predestination.
No it has to be an act of faith and by its very nature there will be detractors. In the west persecution seems to be reduced to Intellectual ridicule. What am I not doing that I should be?
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