The last couple of evenings I watched:
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ONTARIO's public TV is currently featuring ?Five Days of Faith?. The program is The Agenda, with Steve Paikin, Airing on TVO at 8 pm March 26 through 30, 2007
To believe or not to believe: what are the questions?
Day One: Monday March 26
The Phenomenon of Religion
Has there been a resurgence of religion, or did it never die? Would we invent religion if it didn?t already exist?
Day Two: Tuesday March 27
Science vs. Religion
Can one be a scientist and still believe in God or the Bible? Are science and the scientific method compatible with religious faith?
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It was indeed a pleasant experience to see a variety of scholars--Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Budhists, and others the nature and function and value of all the great religions, with any personal attacks.
This evening the focus was on science and religion. There were atheists, Christians, Jews, agnostics, evangelicals, liberals, philosophers.
One theologian, Dennis Lamoreaux, was also a Ph.D in bilogy who accepts the theory of evolution. He identified himself as an evangelical and an evolutionist.
Even one of the atheists, Dr. Jerry Coyne, biologist,
http://pondside.uchicago.edu/ecol-evol/faculty/coyne_j.htmlaccepted that spiritual component in nature--what one of the panel called a natural theology.
Despite the controversial topics, it was such a pleasant experience to hear this kind of gracious conversation.
