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The Boyle Lectures

Professor John D Barrow FRS and others · Gresham College

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About

What psychologists were doing for religion at the beginning of the 20th century, neuroscientists are doing at the beginning of the 21st century. Then, as now, reactions were varied. Some were alarmed and felt that the very foundations of religion were being undermined, some saw the possibility of new insights into religion, some had no doubt that religion could now be explained away as "nothing but" a set of psychological crutches. Similar reactions are evident today as the neural substrates of different aspects of religious practices and experience are investigated.

Lectures

  1. Cosmology of Ultimate Concern 2007-02-13 · YouTube
  2. Psychologising and Neurologising about Religion: Facts, Fallacies and the Future 2008-01-23 · YouTube
  3. Misusing Darwin: The Materialist Conspiracy in Evolutionary Biology 2009-02-04 · YouTube
  4. The Boyle Lecture: The Legacy of Robert Boyle - then and now 2010-02-16 · YouTube
  5. Christ and Evolution: A Drama of Wisdom? 2012-01-31 · YouTube
  6. The Boyle Lectures: Science and Religion in Dialogue 2013-04-08 · YouTube
  7. New Atheism - New Apologetics: The Use of Science in Recent Christian Apologetic Writings 2014-01-22 · YouTube
  8. Natural Theology Reconsidered (Again) 2015-02-25 · YouTube
  9. The Mathematics of Evolutionary Biology - Implications for Ethics, Teleology and 'Natural Theology' 2016-02-03 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Taught by
Professor John D Barrow FRS, Professor Malcome Jeeves, The Revd Dr Fraser Watts, Professor Keith Ward DD FBA, The Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS, Professor John Hedley Brooke, Professor Celia Deane-Drummond, Dr Richard Chartres, Professor Alister McGrath, Dr Russell Re Manning, Louise Hickman, Professor Sarah Coakley
Year
2007
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Biology, Medicine and health, Astronomy and space, Psychology and the brain, History, Philosophy, Religion
Source
Gresham College
Licence
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