If God is dead, is everything permitted? Good and evil are familiar and much-abused terms these days, but behind them lie crucial issues. Are there intrinsic rights and wrongs, or is morality a cultural construction? And where does God fit into the picture? This week on Encounter, Chris Mulherin talks to Peter Singer, Marilyn McCord Adams and Rai Gaita about their journeys in search of the foundations of morality. We will also hear from a group of Melbourne University students as they weigh into the debate over torture and human rights and the roots of right and wrong.

Chris Mulherin is a research student at the Melbourne College of Divinity and at the University of Melbourne where he is also a tutor. His background is engineering and philosophy and he’s an Anglican minister and former CMS missionary in Argentina where he worked with ABUA, the university ministry with which I also served.

Transcript and audio of ABC Radio National ‘Encounter’ at If God is Dead …?