Monthly Archives: May 2009

Evolution and Eugenics

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Quentin

It would be wrong to saddle Charles Darwin with responsibility for the eugenics movement, which was to blacken the 20th century leading up to its culmination at the Nuremberg Trials. Nevertheless, the concept of natural selection provided an intellectual underpinning … Continue reading →

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Clerical abuse – CH Leader

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Quentin

The following leading article from the issue of 29 May 2009 is reproduced by permission of The Catholic Herald. It is the voice of the newspaper and thus anonymous The official executive summary of the Irish Commission to Inquire into … Continue reading →

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Water, water everywhere…

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Quentin

We are having an interesting exploration into the creation of Eve from Adam’s rib. So we might take this a stage further by looking at the Flood. This story is clearly one of great import, and has certainly captured imaginations … Continue reading →

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Cultures at loggerheads

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Quentin

On May 7 1959 C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture on “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution”. His theme that there was an ever-widening gap between science and the humanities has influenced me ever since. He recounted how … Continue reading →

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Adam and Eve and pinch my rib

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Quentin

“And the Lord God cast a deep slumber on the human, and he slept, and He took one of his ribs and closed over the flesh where it had been, and the Lord God built the rib he had taken … Continue reading →

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