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The decline of religious authority in our society is often attributed to the increasing influence of science, with its critical stance towards unproven pronouncements. In recent years, the relationship between science and religion has received attention in the debate on intelligent design vs. Darwinism, or evolutionary theory versus creation. Does scientific knowledge leave room for religion or do science and religion stand in each other's way? Scientific journalist Joël De Ceulaer chairs a debate on the subject between leading authorities in this field.

Gerard Nienhuis is professor of theoretical physics at the University of Leiden. He previously worked at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published work on the relationship between physics, world-views, philosophies of life and religious conviction (Christian and other). According to him, physical knowledge leaves plenty of room for religious belief.

Jean-Paul Van Bendegem is a professor at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Brussels (VUB). His research field is the philosophy of mathematics and the relationships between science, society and religion. In his book Tot in de eindigheid (Ad Infinitum, 1997) Van Bendegem, using logical arguments, attacks a couple of classical arguments for the existence of God.