Science vs Religion – does God exist? Michel-Yves Bolloré explains how the debate is shifting, and why some scientists now question the idea of a self-explaining universe

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Jonathan Sacerdoti interviews Michel-Yves Bolloré about the shifting debate on the existence of God and the implications of scientific developments.

Does God exist, and can we prove it? Donate to support these interviews. There is a growing assumption in modern Western life that science has settled the question of God. That belief rests less on settled knowledge than on cultural habit, reinforced over generations of intellectual fashion and institutional authority. What once presented itself as liberation from superstition has, in many cases, hardened into a new orthodoxy, one that treats materialism as neutral and belief as deviation.Yet the scientific story itself has not remained static. Developments in cosmology, physics, and biology have introduced new tensions into that confidence. Questions of origin, order, and fine tuning continue to resist reduction to simple mechanism. The deeper the inquiry goes, the more the underlying assumptions begin to matter.In this conversation, Jonathan Sacerdoti speaks with Michel-Yves Bolloré, co-author of God, the Science, the Evidence, a book that has reached a wide audience across Europe and now enters the English-speaking world. Bolloré approaches the question not as a theologian, but as a proponent of a cumulative case built from scientific and philosophical developments over the…

People in this episode

Host: Jonathan Sacerdoti

Guest: Michel-Yves Bolloré

Topics covered

• science
• religion
• cosmology
• materialism
• philosophy
• existence of God

Keywords

• God
• science
• existence
• materialism
• cosmology
• philosophy
• evidence

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: God, the Science, the Evidence

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