Wednesday, May 15

Playing God: Science, Christianity, and the Future of Humanity

An evening with best-selling author and broadcaster Nick Spencer, exploring how developments in science are posing huge questions about what

By The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity

Date and time

Wednesday, May 15 · 7 - 9pm GMT+1

Location

LICC

St Peter’s Vere Street London W1G 0DQ United Kingdom

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About this event

2 hours

Scientific advances have been rewriting our understanding of reality for centuries. Now, in the 2020s, the pace is rapidly accelerating.

Whether it’s the quest for immortality or the search for alien life, the treatment of pandemics or animal personhood, AI or mental health, abortion or genetic editing, science is making advances that pose huge questions about what it means to be human, whether we should change ourselves, and how far we should ‘play God’.

With every new power we develop, a whole new set of ethical and moral questions emerge.

What does it mean to live well in a world where the very concept of personhood is up for debate, and where human ingenuity is extending its reach into the very building blocks of life? What impact does that have on our daily lives – and the way we live out our faith in the places God’s put us?

To unpack these thorny questions, join Dr Nick Spencer, author, broadcaster, and Senior Fellow at the think tank Theos, in conversation with Paul Woolley and Grace Fielding for a special live recording of The Whole Life Podcast.

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