Creating Life in the Lab - Adam Rutherford & Fuz Rana - Unbelievable?
Playback speed
In a podcast special, atheist scientist Adam Rutherford and Christian biochemist Fazale (Fuz) Rana of Reasons To Believe, discuss the latest advances in synthetic bio-engineering and whether they support or contradict the view that life is a product of design.
In the second of 2 programmes they explain the latest scientific advances in attempting to create simple synthetic life in the laboratory and how this research may be of benefit.
Fuz contends that the amount of ingenuity and intelligence required to produce life in the lab lends strong support to the view that life on earth is a product of an intelligent mind. Adam Rutherford, whose new book is called "Creation: The Future of life" disagrees.
Fuz is a speaker at Unbelievable? the Conference 2013 www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable2013
For more discussion between Christians and non-Christians visit www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable
Join the conversation via Facebook and Twitter
For Adam Rutherford's new book http://goo.gl/ZqaE0
For Fuz Rana http://www.reasons.org/about/who-we-are/fazale-rana
For "Creating Life in the Lab" http://goo.gl/HoLra
Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes
You may also enjoy:
Unbelievable? 23 Oct 2010 - Darwin's Black Box - Michael Behe & Keith Fox debate Intelligent Design
Unbelievable? 28th April 2012 - A Universe From Nothing - Lawrence Krauss & Rodney Holder
Released on 23 Jun 2014
Coming up next
Alister McGrath on the life of CS Lewis - Unbelievable?
Alister McGrath chats to Justin Brierley about his major new biography 'CS Lewis: A Life - Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet'. They discuss Lewis' (re-dated) conversion, his life in Oxford, his arguments for God and why he remains so singificant a....
Kermit Gosnell & the abortion debate - Unbelievable?
In the USA Kermit Gosnell is being tried on counts of murdering children born alive in illegal late-term abortions at his unsanitary practise in Philadelphia. Dr Trevor Stammers is a Christian former GP who refused to personally refer women for abor....
Did Adam & Eve exist? Denis Alexander, Fuz Rana & Peter Enns - Unbelievable?
Do science and genetics support the existence of a 'first' human couple? How should we interpret the first chapters of Genesis? Do we need a historical Adam & Eve to make sense of sin and salvation? Three Christians discuss the issues from differ...