The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… The Gods

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Robin Ince and Brian Cox tackle the thorny debate over whether science and religion can co-exist. But forget the tension between the church and the researchers – Eric Idle wants an answer to the important question of whether God is in gluten free communion bread? Katy Brand launches the inaugural theologian’s corner with a pair of Reverends, who explain that comedians and the clergy have a lot in common, including a tendency to like the sound of their own voices. As we learn more about how our universe works, will there even be a need for religious belief? Since some research suggests fundamentalists and zealots tend to be less intelligent, perhaps there’s a case to be made for some healthy scepticism.

New episodes will be released on Wednesdays. If you’re in the UK, listen to the full series on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/3K3JzyF

Producer: Marijke Peters Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

Episodes featured: Series 1: Science and Religion Series 4: Is There Room for Mysticism in a Rational World? The Infinite Monkey Cage 100 Series 21: Quantum Worlds Series 10: Irrationality

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
0:04.6	My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:08.4	As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable
0:14.3	experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC
0:20.4	makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,
0:24.6	poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.
0:29.7	If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds.
0:38.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts.
0:41.0	Hello I'm Brancox.
0:42.0	I'm Robin Ince and welcome to another episode. podcasts. young always trapped him being 36 years old. It was actually God that drew us to science. Well, when I say God,
0:57.0	it was actually those highly misinformed books of the 1970s about how aliens had come down to earth and built the pyramids the Sphinx and a few runways
1:06.3	near Mayan temples who were then seen as are these actually the gods were the aliens gods
1:11.9	extraterrestials reviewed as a sort of intergalactic roving team
1:15.9	from Grand Designs.
1:17.3	There was a boom in books that explains remarkable moments
1:19.9	in civilization and angel visitations as close encounters of a third kind.
1:25.4	And I've told Brian this before and he does not listen, but it really will make him
1:28.8	even more money.
1:29.8	I said, you'll be better off writing books like these rather than his rigorous books on black holes
1:34.2	and quantum theory as those books will go out of date, whereas utter nonsense never goes out of date
1:41.2	as it remains as wrong today as it's always being.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -342 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.