Podcast Extra - The Ideological Challenge of Science

Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs - A podcast by J.A. Franklin, T.J. Pelham, Daniel French - Fridays

In this special episode, Church of England vicar Jamie Franklin reproduces a talk given recently at an event in Cambridge on "The Ideological Challenge of Science". In this talk I argue that Western culture is permeated by a naturalistic and mechanistic way of experiencing the world, that this worldview is based on a number of unprovable assumptions and is at base superstitious, that there is an inevitable and disastrous connection between this worldview and our ethical practices, that ...