Science and the Search for Meaning: Five Questions (Audio Series)

2010

To the Best of Our Knowledge, Wisconsin Public Radio and Public Radio International’s Peabody Award-winning magazine of ideas, presents a major 5-hour series on the complex relationship between science and spirituality. Through a series of in-depth interviews with leading experts, executive producer Steve Paulson examines 5 central ideas in modern science and their impact on some of the most profound questions facing philosophers and religious thinkers today.

  • What is Life?

    • Steve Paulson Journalist and Executive Producer, TTBOOK
    • Nita Sahai Geochemist
    • Edwin Schrodinger Physicist
    • James Watson Biologist
    • Harold Varmus Biologist
    • Ken Miller Co- Author
    • Craig Venter Science leading innovator
    • James Lovelock Scientist
    • Kevin Kelly Founder of Wired magazine
    • Tom Boellstorff Anthropologist
    • Paul Davies Physicist, Cosmologist, and Astrobiologist, Arizona State University

  • What Does Evolution Want?

    • Steve Paulson Journalist and Executive Producer, TTBOOK
    • Simon Conway Morris Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology, University of Cambridge
    • Robert Richards Historian and Philosopher of Science
    • Ruth Padel British poet
    • John F. Haught Distinguished Research Professor, Georgetown University
    • John Hawks Paleo-anthropologist

  • Does the “Soul” Still Matter?

    • Steve Paulson Journalist and Executive Producer, TTBOOK
    • Keith Ward Prominent Theologian and Philosopher
    • Michael Graziano Neuroscientist
    • Stephen Asma Columbia College Philosopher
    • Elna Baker Author of The New York Regional, Mormon Singles Halloween Dance
    • Parker Palmer Author, Educator and Founder of the Center for Courage and Renewal
    • Nancey Murphy Professor of Philosophy, Fuller Theological Seminary
    • Marilynne Robinson Novelist

  • Can Islam and Science Coexist?

    • Steve Paulson Journalist and Executive Producer, TTBOOK
    • Taner Edis Physicist at Truman State University
    • Ziauddin Sardar Scholar and Cultural Critic
    • Nidhal Guessoum Astrophysicist
    • Anousheh Ansari First Muslim woman to venture space
    • Harun Yahya Islam’s leading Creationist
    • Rumi Sufi Poet
    • Coleman Barks Translator

  • Can Science Be Sacred?

    • Steve Paulson Journalist and Executive Producer, TTBOOK
    • E.O. Wilson Secular Scientist and Philosopher
    • Ursula Goodenough Secular Scientist and Philosopher
    • Joel Primack Secular Scientist and Philosopher
    • George Vaillant Secular Scientist and Philosopher
    • Jane Goodall Secular Scientist and Philosopher
    • Stuart Kauffman Secular Scientist and Philosopher
    • Diana Beresford-Kroeger Botanist and Medical biochemist
    • Arthur Zajonc Physicist at Amherst College, and Meditator
    • Birute Galdikas Researcher
    • David Abram Environmental Philosopher