On Monday 7th July Professor Bill Clegg from Newcastle University joined us for an open discussion of science and faith. We begin with learning about Bill’s background, how he became both a Christian and a scientist. He is an accredited Baptist Lay Preacher and is chair to Christians in Science.
Thank you to all who came along and participated this evening; and special thanks to Professor Bill Clegg.
email: [email protected]
web: https://bigquestions-anyanswers.org
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Quotations:
Johannes Kepler Astronomer and mathematician
“Science is thinking God’s thoughts after him.”
Galileo Galilei Astronomer
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered”
Sir William Henry Bragg Physicist
“From religion comes a man's purpose; from science, his power to achieve it. Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the same sense that the thumb and fingers of my hands are opposed to one another. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped.”
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Useful Links:
Christians in Science
Recorded talks. leaflets events
https://www.cis.org.uk/
The Faraday Institute
(Dr Ruth Bancewicz writes for Parish Pump, content provider for Ryhope Views)
Seminars, courses
https://www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/
Local Science-faith website (Professor Clegg’s site)
Short articles
https://bigquestions-anyanswers.org/
Email: [email protected]
Test of Faith
online short course from the faraday institute
https://www.testoffaith.com/
Science for the church
American organisation
https://scienceforthechurch.org/
Biologos
Articles podcasts videos etc from USA
https://biologos.org/
A Rocha
Christian Environmental Organisation
https://arocha.org.uk/
Baptist Union Environment Network
https://baptist.org.uk/groups/349554/Baptist_Union_Environment.aspx
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Further Reading:
Miracles of Exodus by Colin Humphreys
Harper Collins 2003
Creation or Evolution: Do we have to choose? By Denis Alexander.
Monarch Books 2008
Slaying the Dragons: Destroying myths in the history of science and faith. By Allan Chapman
Lion Books 2013
Galileo Goes To Jail and other myths about science and religion by Ronald Numbers.
Harvard University Press 2009
The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient cosmology and the origins debate by John Walton
IVP 2010
Science and Religion: a new introduction by Alister McGrath
Wiley 2020 (3rd Edition)
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Questions/Chapter Time Stamps
15:16.
17:02.
19:04.
19:41. Genesis 1 & 2
20:37. Isaiah 55:12
21:09.
22:20.
24:29.
25:30. Leviticus 19:19, Deuteronomy 6:5 & Matthew 22:37
26:43. Genesis 2:7
29:27.
30:56.
31:20. John 4
33:21. Revelation
34:35. Matthew 24:6-13
36:07.
44:41.
49:31.
50:15.
52:38.
53:54.
1:00:29.
1:05:34.
1:08:20.
1:10:08.
1:13:04.
1:13:53.
1:15:49. Beneath The Cross of Jesus - Hymn by Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane (1868)
1:17:14. Psalm 139
1:19:15.
1:21:12. Revelation 21
1:23:20.
1:24:37.
1:27:13.
1:27:50.
1:30:10.
1:29:16. John 5
1:32:36.
1:37:35. Quotations
1:39:19. Closing thoughts
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Other references:
8:01. X-ray Crystallography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_crystallography
39:38. Heisenberg's Indeterminacy Principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
40:15.Planck's Constant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant
40:53. Pendulum Experiment https://youtu.be/PrPYeu3GRLg?si=pLl-rsBxzaZ9Hy08
42:07. Chaos Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
52m28. Fermi Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
1:13:27.Talmud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud
1:13:33. Apocrypha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha
1:15:49. Beneath The Cross of Jesus - Hymn by Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane (1868) https://youtu.be/CYfaU_d8Jw0?si=oF-pz2h2MCdOHmgE
1:19:46. Parthenogenesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis
1:22:33. Laws of Thermodynamics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_thermodynamics
1:28:42. Pool of Bethesda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_of_Bethesda
1:29:02. Luke the Evangelist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_the_Evangelist
1:35:25. Cosmology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology & Quantum Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics
1:36:02. Newton’s Laws of Motion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_laws_of_motion