S2 Ep61. The Spiritual Crisis of our Time. Part 4. The Emergence of Science and the Challenge to Religion.

<p align="justify">The difficulties with the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages; the Renaissance and its spiritual and imaginative possibilities; but followed by Protestantism, religious wars, vast colonial conquest, and then the rise of the Scientific Enlightenment and the Industrial revolution.</p> <p align="justify">Capitalism has demanded considerable freedoms in order to function including freedom from Church and excessive State intervention. A brief overview of the history of Astronomy, followed by the emergence of the life science, all based on a materialist-reductionist world view.</p> <p align="justify">God is at first the clock maker, who winds up the cosmic clock and then retires to let it run by its own mechanical laws; later he is made redundant, and then rumoured to be dead. But will he rise from the dead – as the scripture have foretold?</p>