03: The God of the Gaps | The Story of God

Duration: 59'06''

Synopsis

Professor Robert Winston explores how belief in God has been challenged in the modern world by secular ideas, in particular science. How have people of all religious beliefs over the centuries balanced their faith with knowledge such as Darwin's theory of evolution?

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