SPRING PROGRAMME 2026

The dates are:

Tuesday 17th February

Tuesday 17th March (tbc)

We will be meeting at Worcester Baptist Church, in the hall. Doors open at 7.30pm for coffee and cake, and the talks will begin at 8pm.

SCIENCE AND FAITH

METHOD OR MADNESS?

Prof. Brain Strain and The Vic

Part 2: 17th February

In Part 1, last November, Prof. Brain Strain and The Vic discussed the close ties between the Christian faith and the development of the scientific method up to approximately 1860, the year after the publication of Charles Darwin’s “Origin of the Species”. Many of the significant developments of science and the scientific approach had emerged from individuals who believed in a creator God who had brought order out of chaos, and therefore would have established discernable laws governing the natural world.

 In Part 2, (17th February), the Prof and the Vic will demonstrate some of the challenges that have arisen following the transformation effects of emerging understanding of the complexity of the natural world and the development of technologies since the 1980s, and the beginning of post-modernism. We’ll look at how together, they can help us better understand the scriptures, both as they were written and as they continue to speak into our lives today.