Protest and Reform are current political themes. These terms were commonly used in the 16th-century European Reformation and by the Protestantism associated with it. That Reform was a religious movement that continues to the present day, but modern protest and Reform are political movements, with secularism undergirding them. Revolution can also be thrown into this …
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Eclectic exegesis
The need of the hour is to expose eclectic exegesis for what it is – choosy and subjective. 'Eclectic' derives from the concept of 'choosing out' from a variety of choices. Eclectic has a wide meaning and it is often applied in a positive sense to indicate that one is not narrow-minded but that one …
Seven days that changed the heavens
408 years ago today, Galileo's discovery changed our understanding of the solar system forever. His astronomical observations supported the hypothesis formulated by Copernicus 100 years earlier that the Earth was not the centre of the solar system. This was an Earth-shattering discovery. Between 7th and 13th January 1610, Galileo discovered and observed the four Moons …
Donald's Thoughts 