AUTUMN PROGRAMME 2025

The dates are:

Tuesday 16th September

Tuesday 21st October

Tuesday 18th November

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?

Dr. Kim Stansfield and Tim Purkiss

Tuesdays  21st October and 18th November

In this joint presentation, Kim and Tim will introduce some key aspects of both the development of what is now known as the scientific method and the fundamentals of a Christian approach to theology.

Core concepts that emerged and have been consolidated up to approximately 1860 (“The Origin of the Species” was published in 1859 and Immanuel Kant’s work was consolidated in the early 1860s) will be considered in Part 1 (October) of the talk, and in Part 2 (November), they will consider the subsequent developments of these two approaches. Throughout, they will consider how these two methods are used to establish core facts and truths, and how changes in thinking in recent times have affected both science and theology.