Songs of Praise is to remain Christian despite calls for it to be turned it into a multifaith programme, the BBC’s first Muslim head of religion has pledged. Aaqil Ahmed said that it was vital that religious programming promoted “diversity” but insisted that Songs of Praise would always remain Christian.
The winner of the Theos competition for the best 'tweet' of On the Origin of Species was announced last week.
Charles Foster's entry was: "He who dies, loses. He who reproduces, plays the game. He who produces game-playing offspring who won't submerge parental genes, wins."
The originality and accuracy of Mr Foster's entry impressed judges. In the competition, the public were invited to encapsulate the over 600-page seminal work into 140-character tweets on the popular Twitter website.
Theos received a wide range of entries (not all within the rules), including:
Velizou: thinks that #darwin would have had a much larger impact if he'd discovered #evolution 150 years later... with or without #twitter.
shanu8:If man evolved from monkeys and apes. . . why do we still have monkeys and apes?
There was an old man from Kent
Whose thoughts, evolutionarily bent.
Some species live,
Some species die,
But none to heaven are sent. (John, on Times blog)
The strong with a partner in bed, the weak in a coffin - and dead. How simple is that? (oz71)
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A multifaith Songs of Praise? Not on my watch says BBC religion chief
Songs of Praise is to remain Christian despite calls for it to be turned it into a multifaith programme, the BBC’s first Muslim head of religion has pledged. Aaqil Ahmed said that it was vital that religious programming promoted “diversity” but insisted that Songs of Praise would always remain Christian.
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Darwin tweeted
8th December 2010
The winner of the Theos competition for the best 'tweet' of On the Origin of Species was announced last week.
Charles Foster's entry was: "He who dies, loses. He who reproduces, plays the game. He who produces game-playing offspring who won't submerge parental genes, wins."
The originality and accuracy of Mr Foster's entry impressed judges. In the competition, the public were invited to encapsulate the over 600-page seminal work into 140-character tweets on the popular Twitter website.
Theos received a wide range of entries (not all within the rules), including:
Velizou: thinks that #darwin would have had a much larger impact if he'd discovered #evolution 150 years later... with or without #twitter.
shanu8:If man evolved from monkeys and apes. . . why do we still have monkeys and apes?
There was an old man from Kent
Whose thoughts, evolutionarily bent.
Some species live,
Some species die,
But none to heaven are sent. (John, on Times blog)
The strong with a partner in bed, the weak in a coffin - and dead. How simple is that? (oz71)
Charles Foster is author of The Selfless Gene.