On Sunday night March 9, Fox will begin its 13-episode series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. This is a new version of Carl Sagan’s very popular 1980′s TV show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. How should Christians think about this show?Are science and faith at odds? Has Christianity been good for science? Has science made God irrelevant? These are just a few of the interesting questions we will engage in this episode of the Intersection Podcast. We will also hear from special guest Dr. Jay Richards of the Discovery Institute in this episode.

The new Cosmos TV series presents us with both opportunities and challenges. As Christians we have not always handled the faith and science questions well. As a result, many in our culture and the church are often confused about how science and Christianity should relate to each other. This is especially the case with the emerging generation who want to take both God and science seriously. To have a better conversation, we need to understand key concepts like worldview, naturalism, scientism, and design. If this truly is God’s world, then we should expect to see evidence of his power and creative activity (Romans 1:19-20; Psalm 19:1-4).

Watch trailer for the new Cosmos TV show.

Resources on Issues of Faith and Science Raised in Cosmos:

- Is God Just a Human Invention? And Seventeen Other Questions Raised by the New Atheists by Sean McDowell and Jonathan Morrow

- God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? by John Lennox

- Science and Faith: Friends or Foes? by C. John Collins

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