How do we think about the links between science and religion? We discuss it with Thomas C. Durand and Jack Arnold

To celebrate the good news, Guy Trédaniel Editions have given themselves a Collector’s Edition. One year after its October 2021 publication, the book God, knowledge, evidence, by Michel Yves Bollory and Olivier Bonassiz has sold over 200,000 copies. It must be said that the promise of 600 pages is ambitious: delivery Modern Proofs for the Existence of God. A supposedly invincible argument: The increasing complexity of science over the past century — quantum physics, genetics, or special relativity — can only be explained, according to the authors, by the existence of a great watchmaker.

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The following August 31st, Thomas C. Durand, MD, Ph.D., Plant Biologist and Trending Science featured on the YouTube channel “La Tronche en bias,” in God is the opposite of investigation (anthropology) that “Until the opposite is proven, God must be declared innocent: He does not exist.” A systematic study of the rationality of the Supreme Creator shows that there is no scientific fact that testifies to the existence of any deity. As if to close the debate, Jack Arnold, historian of science and theology, posted on Feb. 1 God does not need “evidence” (Albin Michel) A plea for the separation of science and religion. So, what place should be given to belief in the scientific process? What are the dangers of this mixing of species? Debate between Jack Arnold and Thomas C. Durand.

Marianne: In your opinion, does the publication – and success – of the work co-written by Vincent Bolloret’s brother, Michel-Yves Bolloret, mark a strong resurgence in Harmony, which seeks to make religious texts coincide with scientific knowledge?

Thomas C Durand: I don’t have any number or indicator that shows this return. On the other hand, there is tension, likely related in the case of this book to the media power of some multi-billionaire who owns many media outlets and has political intentions. Since the Manif pour tous, some representatives of these religious currents have taken to the streets, learning to have demands. A culture is taking shape, which Bolloré and Bonassies’ book illustrates well, with the desire to influence the intellectual landscape. This is partly why my book helped provide the balance, to explain what it means to be a skeptic, to distinguish between what one knows and what one believes.