463 cases of female genital mutilation are identified in English hospitals every month. (The Sunday Times) Despite the fact that it is illegal, it has been estimated that over 20,000 girls under the age of 15 are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UK each year, and that 66,000 women in the …
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination spans the world”. Albert Einstein
I am not normally in the business of reviewing movies, but I found “The Imitation Game” particularly moving. If you don’t know about it, it is about Alan Turing, logician and cryptologist and one of the 20th Century’s outstanding geniuses. He and his team cracked the Nazi naval Enigma Code during the Second World War, …
The Pope recently announced that he thought Darwin’s theory of evolution was correct and that the universe was created as a result of the Big Bang. Educated, intelligent people who are religious wouldn’t argue with this (my sister, who regards herself as a born-again christian, sees nothing in science that contradicts her beliefs. Indeed, she …
The Abbasid Caliphs Mamum and Mutasim, who ruled in the 9th Century, established a group of scholars who believed that “God, while beyond the imagination of humans to imagine or define, nevertheless existed within the framework of rational thought”. In other words, they did not simply accept the Koran but subjected it to argument and …
