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Where do we come from? That’s one of the greatest questions of humankind. For science, it’s the Big Bang. An unimaginable explosion some 15 billion years ago that gave birth to energy and life as we know it. For religion, it’s the mysterious hand of God. Is there room in the cosmos for both? SEGMENT 1: Physicist Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams are the authors of "The View from the Center of the Universe." They tell Steve Paulson how humanity has moved back into the center of our myth-making centuries after Copernicus shattered the old notion of an earth-centered universe. Also, Don Gurnett has been working with NASA, recording audio from space for years. He plays some of his favorite space sounds for Jim Fleming and explains where they come from. SEGMENT 2: Do people believe there is life on other planets? A medley of responses to this burning questions begins this segment. Thebe Medupe is an astrophysicist and producer of the documentary film "Cosmic Africa." He tells Anne Strainchamps about spending time with the Kalahari Bushmen and the Dogon people of Mali to learn their legends about the stars. SEGMENT 3: Daniel Matt is the author of "God and the Big Bang" and one of the foremost scholars of Jewish mysticism and the Kaballah. He tells Steve Paulson that the Big Bang Theory is science's creation myth and that the mystical and rational traditions can inform each other. Also, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku thinks that nature is God's greatest creation. Kaku is the author of "Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos."
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