Robin Ince and Brian Cox tackle the thorny debate over whether science and religion can co-exist. But forget the tension between the church and the researchers – Eric Idle wants an answer to the important question of whether God is in gluten free communion bread? Katy Brand launches the inaugural theologian’s corner with a pair of Reverends, who explain that comedians and the clergy have a lot in common, including a tendency to like the sound of their own voices. As we learn more about how our universe works, will there even be a need for religious belief? Since some research suggests fundamentalists and zealots tend to be less intelligent, perhaps there’s a case to be made for some healthy scepticism. New episodes will be released on Wednesdays. If you’re in the UK, listen to the full series on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/3K3JzyF Producer: Marijke Peters Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem Episodes featured: Series 1: Science and Religion Series 4: Is There Room for Mysticism in a Rational World? The Infinite Monkey Cage 100 Series 21: Quantum Worlds Series 10: Irrationality
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Hello, I'm Brian Cox.
I'm Robin Ince, and welcome to another episode of the infinite Monkeys Guide two.
Now, when we were both young, one of us still is annoyingly young, always trapped in being 36 years old.
It was actually goddesse that drew us to science.
Well, when I say God, it was actually those highly misinformative books of the 1970s about how aliens had come down to earth and built the pyramids, the Sphinx, and a few runways near mayan temples, who were then seen as.
Are these actually the gods?
Were the aliens gods.
Extraterrestrials were viewed as a sort of intergalactic roving team from grand designs.
There was a boom in books that explains remarkable moments in civilization and angel visitations as close encounters of a third kind.
Told Brian this before, and he does not listen, but it really will make him even more money.
I said, you'll be better off writing books like these, rather than his rigorous books on black holes and quantum theory, as those books will go out of date, whereas utter nonsense never goes out of date, as it remains as wrong today as it's always been.