Description
Why would a loving God create a world filled with earthquakes, volcanoes and devastating natural disasters?
Professor Robert White FRS has spent his career uncovering the extraordinary forces shaping our planet. A Cambridge geophysicist and Fellow of the Royal Society, he has investigated volcanoes, explored the ocean floor and witnessed some of the most dramatic discoveries in modern Earth science.
In this episode of Journeys in Science and Faith, Professor Andrew C. Scott explores White's remarkable scientific career, including explosive experiments in the North Sea, his journey to Christian faith at Cambridge and his role in founding the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.
But can science and faith really coexist? And what happens to belief in God when disaster strikes?
Chapters
00:00 Can You Be a Serious Scientist and Believe in God?
00:47 From Schoolboy Inventor to Cambridge Scientist
10:13 The Sermon That Changed His Life
14:52 Why Is It Easier to Believe in God as a Scientist?
18:57 The Discovery That Changed Everything We Knew About Earth
27:32 A Tonne of Explosives That Wouldn't Detonate
29:19 What Causes Massive Volcanic Eruptions?
34:47 Why Cambridge Scientists Founded the Faraday Institute
42:55 When Natural Hazards Become Deadly Disasters
45:12 Why Did Disaster Strengthen Their Faith?
46:16 Climate Change: A Moral Crisis for Christians?
52:13 The Bible, Newton and the Origins of Modern Science
An extraordinary conversation about science, suffering, climate change and the surprising relationship between faith and the natural world.
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