Thank God for Science - Are there any limits to Science?

An astrophysicist explores scientific discovery and hope

Thu 5 Aug 2010

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Science has brought so many wonderful improvements to our lives in so many areas. It has provided almost limitless knowledge and through it we appear to have mastered our world. And yet, can scientific process and thought provide a basis for ethics and morality?

Astrophysicist Dr Lewis Jones explores the limits of science and how we can discover meaning, truth and hope

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Glenn Hohnberg

Glenn grew up on a working farm in NSW, then studied and worked in IT in Sydney for a few years. His church invited him to train with them in the Ministry Training Strategy which led onto four years at theological college, starting and leading the City Bible Forum in Brisbane for 10 years and planting and pastoring Risen Church.

Lewis Jones

Dr Jones is the Director of The Simeon Network, the postgraduate and academic arm of AFES (the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students). Dr Jones earned his PhD in Astrophysics from the University of North Carolina before moving to Australia for his first postdoctoral research position at the University of New South Wales. He subsequently completed a Bachelor of Divinity at Moore Theological College. He is now a member of the Human Research Ethics Committee at UNSW, a member of the Gospel, Society & Culture Committee of the Presbyterian Assembly of New South Wales, and attends Randwick Presbyterian Church with his wife Jenny and their three children.