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Quentin de la Bedoyere

One day the womb will be old tech
February 18, 2016
About a year ago we had some discussions on the three-parent baby, involving the use of healthy mitochondria from a donor. And today we see creeping into the press a new word to us: CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats). This is proving to be an efficient method of editing genes. It may knock
The Zika outbreak presents the Church with a major dilemma
February 02, 2016
As the virus spreads across Latin America, will the Catholic Church keep its thoughts to itself?
Why guilt is good for us
January 28, 2016
Today we appear to have two different approaches to morality. One is founded in obedience to the Church’s teaching on moral matters; the other is the absolute requirement to follow our subjective conscience. These two notions appear to stand in opposition to each other. I explore this anomaly with help from Benedict XVI’s address, as
Why pupils need lessons in humanism
January 07, 2016
Mr Justice Warby fired a shot across the bows in a High Court judgment in November when he said that schools should put secular humanism and other non-religious beliefs into the Religious Studies curriculum. This, unsurprisingly, caused a fuss. But the ruling did not apply to faith schools. Sigh of relief? No, of course not.
Eyes down for our Christmas quiz
December 22, 2015
This true-or-false quiz is designed to provide entertainment around the Christmas table. The answers are in the second and third columns, so you might want to cover them up. Anyone wishing to settle an argument, or check sources, should go to secondsightblog.net. Questions 1 Humans share about 50 per cent of their DNA with bananas.
Science and Faith: The danger of inherited judgments
December 01, 2015
There I was, repairing this fiddly little gadget, when I lost my screwdriver. I knew I had used it not a minute before, but it had disappeared. Frustrated, I asked my wife if she had seen it. Within a second she picked it up from the very spot where I had put it down. How
The plot to eradicate faith schools
July 30, 2015
Why should a child be unable to attend their local school which happens to be Catholic, but be obliged to travel afar for education?
Has Benedict XVI changed Church teaching on condoms?
November 21, 2010
In fact, the Pope has merely confirmed what is already well established
Good news for every blob of cells that wants to grow into a human
October 12, 2010
Stem-cell researchers achieve a breakthrough, while Woman's Hour hosts a head-to-head debate on abortion
David, I thought you were a sensible chap. What happened with child benefits?
October 08, 2010
Any student of psychology could have told you how it would play out
Proportion of Christians in England has stayed the same for 10 years
October 01, 2010
We remain, by a large majority, a Christian culture
Stephen Hawking still can’t explain how something came from nothing
September 02, 2010
Even if physicists had a Grand Theory of Everything, they could not solve creation
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