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IT’S been a long, lonelytime. And time goes by soslowly. But Ghost theMusical has finally madeit to the stage. The production – based onthe Oscar-winning filmstarring Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze – iscurrently packing stalls at London’s PiccadillyTheatre.

The story begins with youngcouple Sam (Richard Fleeshman)and Molly (Caissie Levy) as they

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THE British Library aims to raise funds to buy the St Cuthbert Gospel, the earliest intact European book.

The book was produced in the 7th century and wasburied alongside Cuthbert on Lindisfarne. It was laterfound in the churchman’s coffin after his body hadbeen moved to Durham Cathedral.

Since 1979, the book has been on long-term loan tothe British Library, where it is on display. Last year,

the British Library wasgiven first option toacquire it.

The London-basedlibrary has signed amemorandum ofunderstanding withDurham Cathedral andDurham University thatwill give theopportunity for thebook to be displayed forhalf of the time inDurham or otherlocations in the NorthEast of England.

The Very RevMichael Sadgrove,Dean of Durham, calledthe book ‘a vital part ofour cultural andspiritual heritage’.

The British Library isin the process of raising£9 million for the bookby next March.

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THIS year’s monsooncould cause disasterin Pakistan becauseflood defences havenot been repairedsince last year’sdeadly floods,according to ChristianAid.

The relief anddevelopment agency,which has workedthrough partnerorganisations inPakistan, adds thatthe country’scontingency plans forcoping with heavy rainare either inadequateor non-existent.

Last year, floodingkilled 2,000 people andleft 11 millionhomeless.

Neill Garvie ofChristian Aid says:‘There are majorconcerns about thelevel of preparednessshould there be arepeat of last year’sheavy monsoon rains.It is poorer people,who do not have theoption of moving awayfrom the farmlandswhere they are tenantsor bonded labourers,that suffer the mostwhen the rains come.’

He said that floodbarrages along theRiver Indus had notbeen repaired.

English Baccalaureate is tostay the same.

Campaigners have beenasking that RE be includedamong the subjects thatmake up the baccalaureate,which is a measure for performance tables. Theyargue that if it is not,

schools will sideline thesubject.

In June supporters of theRE.Act campaign delivereda petition containing140,000 signatures to No10 Downing Street, andearlier this month leadersof churches and other faith groups wrote to thePrime Minister, calling onhim to tackle ‘a seriousdeterioration in the provi-sion for RE in many secondary schools’.

Commenting on theGovernment’s decision not

to change the EnglishBaccalaureate for 2011,Brian Gates, the chair ofthe Religious EducationCouncil of England andWales, said: ‘Not includingGCSE RE as a mainstreamhumanities subject in the 2010 EnglishBaccalaureate has alreadyresulted in many schoolssimply not offering it as aGCSE choice. Excluding ityet again will gravelyweaken the subject at alllevels in secondaryschools.’

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THE Government has indicated that itwill not include religious education inthe English Baccalaureate for 2011.

The Department of Education’s latest Statement of Intent – an annualstatement which sets out the proposedcontent of performance tables – indicates that the make-up of the

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detox centre in London’sDocklands told theirlocal MP about the helpthey receive inovercoming theiraddictions to drugs andalcohol.

On a visit to the centreMr Jim Fitzpatrick,Labour MP for Poplarand Limehouse, praisedthe work of Greig House.He said: ‘The SalvationArmy here is clearlymaking a huge differenceto the lives of dozens ofpeople. Over the years,that turns into hundredsand then thousands. Thisis about saving lives.Some people would dieotherwise.’

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SALVATION Army centres in Norwayopened their doors to people who wantedto pray or talk with someone after morethan 90 people died in a bombing in Osloand shooting on the island of Utøya.

Salvationists were also asked to weartheir uniforms so that people who wantedspiritual or emotional help could easilyidentify them on the streets.

The Salvation Army’s headquarters inOslo was close to the buildings affected bythe bomb blast and was opened to peopleas a refuge until the whole centralbusiness area was evacuated.

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move into an apartment togetherin Brooklyn. Everything is goingwell. He is a Wall Street banker. Sheis an accomplished artist. Life couldnot be better.

But then tragedy strikes. One nightas the couple are on their way home,Sam is murdered.

Sam’s death is not just a nastyshock to Molly; it is a shock to Samhimself. He doesn’t feel ready to leavelife behind, so instead he makes thechoice to remain on earth as a ghost.He finds that he is able to observe theworld around him but is no longer apart of it.

In his life after death, Sam makes aharrowing discovery. Whoever killedhim has unfinished business, whichmeans that Molly is in danger.

Sam doesn’t know how to protecthis girlfriend. But then he meets OdaMae Brown (Sharon D. Clarke), aphoney psychic who is somehow ableto hear Sam when he talks. He asksher to visit Molly and warn her of thedanger she is in.

Sam and Oda Mae hatch a planwhich they hope will result in Molly’ssafety. But will Molly take seriouslyOda Mae’s claim that Sam is talkingwith her? Can she be trusted?

The idea that Sam could be a ghostseems unlikely. And for a stranger totell Molly that her life is at risk seemsludicrous. She does not know what tothink. All Molly knows is that shewants Sam alive again.

But he is not coming back. His timeon earth is up. And Molly realises thatshe has a choice. She sings: ‘Becausethe world keeps turning and I guess italways will, I can choose to turnaround or I can choose to just standstill.’

Life without Sam will be difficult.But Molly knows that it has to go on.

Perhaps her struggle to keep goingis well known to us. When welose a loved one, or whensomething happens toturn our world upsidedown, we can feel broken,or even dead inside. Lifekeeps moving forward, but per-haps we don’t want it to. We feeldesperate. Lost. Alone.

We are not.The Bible tells us that God is

close by our side, no matter what we

face. Because he knows that life ispainful – because he understands ourhurt – he promises to stay with us andhelp us, always.

One Bible writer points out: ‘Godhas said, “I will never leave you; I willnever abandon you” (Hebrews 13:5Good News Bible).

When life feels empty or over-whelming, we can find comfort inGod, who cares. He listens when wetalk to him. He strengthens us whenwe feel unable to cope. He is thefriend we can turn to, any time, any-where.

We don’t have to give up the ghost.

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Molly feels alone without Sam

Kevin’s enthusiasm eventually ledhim to write a number of books aboutthe poet and his religious experiences,the latest of which is Betjeman on Faith,an anthology of his prose.

Betjeman was keen on architectureand conserving buildings. A bronze stat-ue in St Pancras, London, acknowledgesthe part he played in the campaign tosave the Gothic-fronted railway station.His enthusiasm for buildings includedchurches.

But, says Kevin, Betjeman’s passionfor churches extended beyond architec-tural admiration.

‘As I began to read his prose, his journalism and the essays he wrote forradio, I sensed that in his public life,where he was engaged in architecturalpreservation, he seemed to be motivatedby a kind of religiosity – a sense that it was the Christian thing to do to preserve the country’s heritage.

‘Even in his personalrelationships he seemed tosee things in terms of holi-ness and spirituality.’

Religious images andthemes play varying rolesin Betjeman’s poetry. Insome poems, says Kevin,‘church bells might beringing in the backgroundwhen he thinks about a par-ticular woman, or he mightfall in love while on achurch crawl’. But sometimes in hispoetry Betjeman writes more explicitlyabout religious experience, as in ‘StSaviour’s, Aberdeen Park’, the poemthat grabbed Kevin’s attention.

‘Perhaps what struck me most werethe last lines of the poem, where

Betjeman talks about falling on hisknees before the presence of God. Itseemed so unashamedly devout – anexpression of belief and of humility.’

Reading Betjeman’s prose, Kevinlearnt more about the poet’s experience

of faith. ‘I could see howhe was working outideas in prose and poetryat the same time,’ Kevinsays. ‘For instance, a ser-mon that he preached inSt Matthew’s Church inNorthampton is verysimilar to “St Saviour’s,Aberdeen Park” and “ALincolnshire Church”.’

In all three piecesBetjeman writes about

falling to his knees – or wantingto – in the presence of God.

Kevin says that hereceived some revela-tions from the prose.

‘I was surprised by Betjeman’s broad-

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mindedness about Billy Graham.Betjeman was such a committedAnglican and yet he praised thisAmerican evangelical Bible-thumper. Infact, Betjeman had a fascination withdissenting and Nonconformist churches.

‘I was also intrigued to see how hisattitudes towards Christian aestheticsevolved. For instance, at first he wasvery cynical about the project to rebuildCoventry Cathedral. He thought it wasgoing to be a disaster. But in the end

he was wowed by the modern architecture and the abstract stained-glass windows.’

As for Betjeman’s own reli-gious experience, Kevin says: ‘If

Christian belief is a straightline, I see Betjeman’s path asspiralling along it, like a helix.Sometimes he is on the lineand sometimes off. He wasalways going to church and

always worshipping, although headmitted that for much of the

time he didn’t believe in thereligion he practised. But

he knew that there

‘AN outsider’ is howEnglish poet John

Betjeman described himself in a TVinterview in 1961. The interviewer hadsuggested that Betjeman might bedisregarded in literary circles.

The former Poet Laureate has been seen aslightweight and stylistically old-fashioned. Hewrote rhyming lines about falling in love with agirl playing tennis, verses satirising prosperousself-satisfaction and a poem asking ‘friendlybombs’ to fall on Slough.

But Kevin J. Gardner, Associate Professor ofEnglish at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has whatcould be a bombshell about Betjeman.

‘I wouldn’t say that Betjeman was unfashionable inthe United States; I would say that he is more likelyunknown.

‘Reading a book about Christianity in poetry, I cameacross some of his poems. I had never really read himbefore, but I was struck by a poem “St Saviour’s,Aberdeen Park”.’

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would be times when faith did return tohim. When it did he would try to hold onto it.’

Kevin argues that Betjeman is stillrelevant to the modern world.

In an essay written as far back as1933 Betjeman expressed concern at thedecline in church attendance, writing:‘The age has lost one faith, but it does

not seem to have foundanother.’

Kevin says: ‘In hiswritings Betjeman sug-gested that there wouldbe an inevitable cultur-al incoherence thatwould occur with the

decline of churchgoing. I am not Britishso I cannot specifically speak about that,but I have read current literature thatsays there has been a fragmentation ofsociety in England.

‘On the other hand, in America thereis a culture among religious people thatsays there is something wrong with youif you have spiritual doubts. ButBetjeman says that it is natural to doubt,it is normal to have such struggles, andif you don’t admit it, you are beingdisingenuous.’

So, in Kevin’s eyes, the old-fashionedoutsider still has something to say notonly to the country of his birth but alsoto the country where he is barely known– which is perhaps a bit of a bombshell.

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A PAINTING of the crucifixion of Jesus which has beenhanging in a student hall at Oxford University since the1930s could be a Michelangelo masterpiece worth £100 million, reported the Daily Mail.

According to the paper, the university believed thatCrucifixion with the Madonna, St John and Two MourningAngels was painted by one of Michelangelo’s contempo-raries. But Italian scholar Antonio Forcellino believes

infrared technology sug-gests that the work couldbe by Michelangelo him-self.

The painting has beensent to the AshmoleanMuseum in Oxford andwill go on display in Milanand Rome in the autumn.

Father BrendanCallaghan of OxfordUniversity says: ‘I amhappy for [the painting] togo on display … to allow anumber of historians andexperts to look at, andargue, over it.’

THE Timesreported that it hadseen a letter sent bythe Archbishop ofWestminster toWork and PensionsSecretary IainDuncan Smith,expressing concernthat governmentcuts in housingbenefits will resultin thousands offamilies beingforced out of theirhomes.

According to thereport, the MostRev VincentNichols wrote:‘Some estimatesthat have alreadyappeared in the

media suggest40,000 familiesmay be renderedhomeless. If thiswere indeed the

case it would surelybe a perverse resultof policies aimed at reducingdependency of the

“benefits culture”,since emergencysupport wouldimmediately needto be put in place.’

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SHE was no angel. She had herdemons. The massive musicaltalent that was Amy Winehouse isno more.

With trademark beehive and over-the-top tattoos, the jazz-soul singer showed that real girl power is rooted in God-given talent and creativity, andnot in overhyped, spiced-up, wannabe confections of pop impresarios.

The record shows that Amy won fiveGrammys, one Brit and recognition by Britain’s more-established musicalestablishment – three Ivor NovelloAwards for songwriting.

Tragically, it was what happened outof the studio, offstage and away fromthe adoring crowds that came to definethe 27-year-old. She was, as fellowchanteuse Lily Allen tweeted on hearingof Amy’s death last weekend, ‘a lostsoul’.

Amy was also a troubled soul. Herparents split when she was young. She battled with self-harm, eating disorders, alcohol and drugs. Violencewhile under the influence got her intotrouble with the law.

In a Rolling Stone interview in 2007she admitted to having an addictive personality.

Paying tribute to Amy, Russell Brandwrote that they ‘shared an affliction, the disease of addiction’. He continued:‘The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to easethe passage of the day with some purchased relief.’

They are not alone. Thousands of people battle against alcohol and drugaddiction simply to perform in the office,in the factory or in the classroom. They –like Amy – are not to be judged. They do,however, need to know that there ishelp. That there is hope.

Christians believe that Jesus canbreak every chain; that Jesus can makeand keep an addict clean. AlcoholicsAnonymous recognises that recovery ispossible only when a person recognisestheir dependency, not on the booze, buton God.

Being clever or popular doesn’t haveto be artificially stimulated by drink ordrugs. Knowing that we are lovedbeyond measure by our Creator cansave us from torment. It might just havesaved Amy.

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Young people or children whodrown often misjudge their ownswimming ability or the safetyof the water. They may view ariver or lake as a temptingmeans of cooling off in a hotspell but fail to appreciate theharmful effects that cold watermay have on their stamina andstrength.

Figures show that more thanhalf of young people andchildren who drown are able toswim.

To keep children safe whenthey are in or beside the water,always ensure that they followthe Water Safety Code:

Spot the dangers. Theseinclude the depth andtemperature of the water. Theremay be undercurrents or hiddenrubbish such as shoppingtrolleys and broken glass. Riversand lakes may be polluted andcause sickness. They can bedifficult to escape because ofsteep or slimy banks. It can alsobe very dangerous if there are no

lifeguards at a swimming poolor on the beach.

Take safety advice. On thebeach, special flags and noticeswarn of danger. Know what thesigns mean and encouragechildren to obey them. A red flagmeans it is dangerous to enterthe water. Yellow and red flagsmean that lifeguards are onpatrol and that swimming ispermissible only between theflags. Quartered black andwhite flags indicate the zoneis for surfing. This area is notsafe for swimmers.

Swim together. Childrenshould always swim with anadult, not by themselves. Anadult can point out dangersor help a child who getsinto trouble in the water.

Learn how to help.Know what to do in anemergency. If you seesomeone who is indifficulty, alert alifeguard or dial 999. Ifyou are inland, ask forthe police, or if on thebeach, ask for thecoastguard.

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beginners’ classes for those who cannot. The

holidays are ideal times to check out

pools to find out what’s on offer. For more information about

water safety visit wow4water.net

SCHOOL holidays and sunny days are here,and for many children the prospect ofsplashing around in cool water is verytempting. Whether it’s in a pool, a lake orthe sea, swimming can be fun. But whenprecautions are not taken it can also beextremely dangerous.

Drowning is the second most common cause of deathamong children under 14 years old, and it can happenquickly – in less than two minutes.

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cosmicMaster of TrinityCollege andEmeritus Professorof Cosmology andAstrophysics atCambridgeUniversity, formerPresident of theRoyal Society, peer of the realm andAstronomer Royal,MARTIN REESenjoys stratosphericsuccess. Earlier thisyear he received theTempleton Prize forhis contribution to‘enhancing life’sspiritual dimension’.He talks to NigelBovey

Professor Rees, how did you becomeinterested in science?

At school I was bad at languages sothat made me move towards scienceand maths. Although I read maths atCambridge University, I decided Ididn’t want to be a mathematician.

I got a place to study for a PhD inscience and was fortunate to have asupervisor who got me enthusiasticabout astronomy, cosmology andspace. It was the late 1960s and thesubject was opening up rapidly. Thegood thing was that the subject was newto everyone so I didn’t need to becleverer than the old guys.

In 1995 you became the AstronomerRoyal. How did that happen andwhat are your duties?

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the person who ran the GreenwichObservatory, which was established in the1670s. Today it is an honorary title givento a senior academic in the subject. Thereare no duties. I don’t, for example, givethe Queen her horoscope. The fact,though, that the title exists and there is noPhysicist Royal or Chemist Royalindicates that astronomy was the firstsubject to become professionalised apartfrom medicine.

Astronomy goes back to theBabylonians and the need to have acalendar. I like to think of it as thefirst science to do more good thanharm.

In your early work, when the bigbang theory was less understoodthan it is now, you investigatedphenomena such as red shift and

quasars. How reliable is the big bangas an explanation as to how the

Universe was formed?Back to one second after the beginning

of the Universe, I would say it is veryreliable. When we look at distant objectswe are looking back a long time andseeing the Universe when it was much

younger. We see evidence that there wasa time when the Universe was allsqueezed so that everything was hotterthan the centre of the Sun – which is tenbillion degrees.

There are many ideas about whathappened in the first fractions of a secondbut the conditions can’t be simulated andtested in the lab.

Did your work play a part inforwarding the big bang theory?

It has helped a bit but the mainevidence against the alternative, thesteady state theory, was found by radioastronomers at Cambridge. Theydiscovered that when you looked faraway and back in time, galaxies lookeddifferent and behaved differently. (In thesteady state theory the population ofgalaxies would look the same everywhereand would not change.)

The most importance evidence for bigbang was the discovery of cosmicmicrowave background radiation in 1965.This is the residual radiation from thebeginning of the Universe and was the

When we look at distant objectswe are seeing the Universe whenit was much younger

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Universe all the time, some of which maywell turn out to be Earth-like.

To what extent would life on any ofthese Earth-like planets mean that lifeon Earth is less special, less purposedand less designed?

That would depend on what life wereto be found. It may be that many of theseplanets have a biosphere like ours. Itcould also be that what has happened onEarth is unique. There are two biguncertainties – how life gets started andhow likely it is that evolution on another

planet will lead tosomething ascomplex as life onEarth.

The astronomy isthe easy bit – withinthe next 10 to 20years we will knowhow many Earth-likeplanets there are. Itwill take a lot longerto answer the otherquestions.

How did life start on Earth?We don’t know. One idea is that

microbes arrived on a meteorite. Darwintalked about a warm little pond. Otherstalked about volcanic vents. Evolutioncan describe how life developed, but itdoesn’t tell us how life came about.

Do you regard fine-tuning as ahappenstance or is it evidence ofdesign – the handiwork of a Designer?

We don’t know, but were I to putmoney on it, I’d bet on the multiverseidea.

With so many ifs, isn’t that a bigpunt?

There are lots of uncertainties,but that doesn’t mean that themultiverse idea is not a possibility.

Cosmologists and theologians,echoing Genesis chapter one,talk about the Universe coming‘out of nothing’. Did it?

We don’t know. Before the firstsecond, the science is incomplete.A physicist’s ‘nothing’, though, isnot the same as a philosopher’s‘nothing’. A physicist’s ‘nothing’includes the laws of nature.

Are there questions that scienceisn’t designed to answer?

Science has made hugeadvances which add to ourunderstanding of the world. I hopeone day we will understand theorigin of life and whether there isa multiverse.

But there are many areas of life thatare not part of science. Ethical choices,for example, can’t be decided by science.

Historically there have been conflictsbetween faith and science. To whatextent is that inevitable?

There doesn’t need to be a conflictbetween faith and science. There aremany good scientists who adhere toconventional Christian beliefs. Evenamong those who don’t, I think themajority would share the view that thereneed be no incompatibility.

Some atheistic scientists want to claimthe theory of evolution as evidence that

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most direct evidence that in its very earlystages the Universe was very dense.

In your book Our Cosmic Habitat youask: ‘Could God have made the worldany differently?’ Could he have?

I was quoting what Einstein said aboutGod not playing dice with the Universe.What I had in mind was that one of thebiggest issues in science is whether thelaws of nature, which seem to pertainhere, and indeed in all the parts of theobservable Universe, are really thedeepest level of existence.

An idea which has been taken moreseriously in the past ten years is that theUniverse may be a tiny fraction ofphysical reality. If there are otheruniverses, would they all be governed bythe same laws of gravity,electromagnetism and so on? Or are whatwe call the laws of nature just by-lawsthat apply only to our Universe?

What evidence is there that otheruniverses exist?

There is no firm evidence. There willonly ever be indirect evidence. In order totake a theory seriously you have to beable to test a lot of its consequences (butnot every consequence). If we had atheory which applied to the first 10-36

seconds of big bang – the farthest back intime that scientists are postulating – andthat theory applied to very high densitiesand energies and had quantities we couldtest in the lab, it might explain variousmysteries in physics. We might then beable to apply it to cosmology and testwhether there were a number of bigbangs that formed a number of universes.

That’s a lot of ifs.Absolutely. We are a long way from

knowing. But if you ask physicists howthey expect things will pan out, I think ahigh proportion would say ‘multiverse’.

In your book Just Six Numbers youdescribe how the Universe is shaped byjust six mathematical relationships. Ifthe numbers were even slightly largeror smaller, the cosmos would be verydifferent and life on Earth impossible.Some people see such fine-tuning asevidence of God’s purposed Creation.Multiverse theory suggests that ourUniverse isn’t special, because it is oneof a number that just happens to havegot the maths right to sustain life. Towhat extent is the quest for amultiverse a way of finding analternative explanation of origins toGod?

I think the motive for people to thinkabout the multiverse is simply to see if itis right or not and to understand thefundamental laws of nature. We arediscovering new planets in our own

There doesn’tneed to be aconflict betweenfaith and science

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carbon and iron. In the very earlyUniverse, stars were made of justhydrogen. Then, through nuclear fusion,hydrogen atoms fused to make helium,helium became carbon and so on. It is inthe stars that the elements of the periodictable were made. At the end of their lives,stars exploded and the chemical elementsmade in stars went back into interstellargas as nuclear waste.

New stars then formed from gascontaining elements from the firstgeneration, and heavier elements wereformed. When those stars subsequentlydied, the process repeated.

There is very strong evidence that thisprocess accounts for the proportion of allthe elements in the Sun and our solarsystem – why gold and uranium are rare,

and why oxygen and carbon arecommon.

When a star forms, it contracts from aninterstellar cloud and it spins out. As itforms, there is the star and a spinningdisc. What is thought to have happened isthat when our solar system formed fourand a half billion years ago, there was theSun and a dusty spinning disc. As it spun,the dust particles stuck together to makerocks. They then built up to make theplanets. The four terrestrial inner planets– Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars – arethe rocky ones. The outer ones were coldenough that they kept their hydrogen andhelium and remained as balls of gas.

We know that the Earth has the samechemical elements as the Sun, just indifferent proportions. We know that theelements in the human body are the sameelements as in the Sun.

All the atoms in our bodies were madein a supernova explosion that happenedbefore the solar system was formed. Allatoms are recycled within the Earth. Theyare not transmuted, so a carbon atom inmy body was a carbon atom before theworld was formed.

Science doesn’t know how thechemicals on a life-potential planetbecame the chemicals in our bodies, butthere is a huge recycling process going on– dust to dust, ashes to ashes.

The concepts of dust to dust andhumankind being made of dust appearin Genesis. To what extent does theidea of humankind being made ofstardust show that faith and scienceare complementary?

Dust to dust is a biblical concept but itis also a sort of universal view. The ideaof coming from and returning to nature iscommon to most people whatever theirfaith. A universal human predicament isthat we are not on this earth for long.

What are the big challenges facingscience?

The biggest challenge in science is notthe cosmos or the micro world of the bigbang but the complexity of the everydayworld. The simplest animal is harder tounderstand than an atom or a star.Although I have evidence about the firstsecond of the Universe or a distantgalaxy, when it comes to issues such asdiet, childcare or the environment thechallenges facing the experts are far moredifficult.

Science can explain the mechanismsof climate change – and theconsequences of certain actions – but ifyou want to decide what we should doabout it, either individually or as asociety, you can’t make those decisionsjust on the basis of science. You needvalues and ethics that come fromsomewhere else.

God wasn’t necessary for creation andtherefore doesn’t exist – that evolutionis effectively atheistic. Is that anaccurate conclusion?

No, I think you can accept evolutionand still adhere to a religion.

To what extent can science disproveGod?

All science can do is to tell us what theworld is like. Some things which wereonce considered mysteries and attributedto God are now understood.

Cosmology tells us that humankind ismade of stardust. Could you explainthe process, please?

Stars are like giant nuclear reactors,making chemical elements such as

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wealth, rather than God, the focus oftheir lives.

It is, said Jesus, easier for a camelto go through the eye of a needle thanfor someone who worships wealth toget into the Kingdom of God.

Some scholars suggest that theAramaic wordsfor ‘camel’ and‘rope’ are thesame.Whicheverword Jesusmeant, thesense is

the same.

Without radical change, those whospend their lives chasing the status,deference and sense of self-made-ness that riches can bring – those whomake money their god – will findthemselves empty-handed when theyface eternity.

Commandments – which the ruler saidhe had kept since he was a boy. ThenJesus went straight to the crux of thematter. ‘You still lack one thing. Selleverything you have and give to thepoor, and you will have treasure inHeaven. Then come, follow me’(18: 22).

Jesus knew that the ruler’swhole life was focused on hispossessions rather than onserving God.

Jesus wasn’tsaying that itis wrong tobe rich – or to want tobe rich. The troublecomes when people make

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WHEN Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond appearedbefore the Treasury Select Committee earlier this year toanswer questions on bankers’ bonuses, he probably didn’texpect to be faced with a question straight from the Bible.Labour MP John Mann asked him: ‘Why is it easier for acamel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich manto enter the Kingdom of Heaven?’

Mr Diamond appeared to be stumped. He grinned,looked round and said: ‘Do you have another question?’

Mr Mann took the question directly from somethingJesus said about people and wealth.

A rich ruler went to Jesus and asked him: ‘What must Ido to inherit eternal life?’ (Luke 18:18 New InternationalVersion). Jesus started off by talking about the Ten

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‘For it is easier fora camel to gothrough a needle’seye, than for a richman to enter intothe Kingdom ofGod’ (Luke 18:25)

have no fight left in us – or hope.

But Jesus can break the grip of any negative thing which binds us. He told his followers that God

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It’s the early part of theSecond World War. SteveRogers (Chris Evans) is anunlikely looking hero. He maybe small in stature, but Steveisn’t afraid to stand up to peo-ple and speak his mind.

Steve longs to join the USArmy and fight Nazism, but heis constantly knocked backbecause of his size. He beginsto lose hope.

Friendly German scientist DrErskine, meanwhile, has created a Super-Soldierserum designed to amplify a person’s physical andmoral attributes.

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With a new physique, he is ready to battle with theevil Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving), who is in

charge of Hydra, the Nazi’s science division. But the warwon’t be easy. Schmidt hasalso managed to get hold of theSuper-Soldier serum and hasturned himself into the megalo-maniac Red Skull.

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prosper, while good people suffer. Where is thejustice?

Jesus offers an answer. Speaking abouthimself, he said: ‘The Son of Man cameto seek and to save the lost’ (Luke 19:10New International Version).

The sinless, morally perfect, Jesuscame to save the world – to rescuepeople who don’t want to be ruledby evil. His resurrection showedthat spiritual death – the ultimatepayback of evil – doesn’t need tobe the end for any of us.

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