Here are the lucky numbers: 1st = 77 - Eleanor Marsh- £32.00 2nd = 26 - Mark Stepney - £ 16.00 3rd = 35 - Dave Prescott - £ 16.00 A huge Congratulations to all the Winners your prize money is on the way to you, and thank you for your continued support, it’s very much appreciated. We still have numbers available if anyone would like to join and support St Mary’s for details about how to join the 100 Club see "Billingsley 100 Club" page.
Here are the lucky numbers: 1st = 39 - Diana Marsh - £32.00 2nd = 72 - Andy Leather - £ 16.00 3rd = 19 - Jane Henwood - £ 16.00 A huge Congratulations to all the Winners your prize money is on the way to you, and thank you for your continued support, it’s very much appreciated. We still have numbers available if anyone would like to join and support St Mary’s for details about how to join the 100 Club see "Billingsley 100 Club" page.
The author of Psalm 19 must have enjoyed looking at the night sky, for (s)he wrote "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge". Similar ideas existed in Ancient Greece as philosophers reasoned that there was a form of music arising from the harmony of the stars and the planets. The "music of the spheres" has remained a powerful influence on both the popular and artistic imagination ever since. The psalmist realised the music of the heavens was not as we humans understand it; "They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world". In the 20th century, radio astronomers were finally able to listen to their music with radio telescopes, including the faint sounds from the "Big Bang", the very start of the universe. Radioastronomy is currently in the news with the proposal of the Government body that helps fund UK science to withdraw its grant to the famous Jodrell Bank radio telescope. A friend of mine who is a radio astronomer remains upbeat; in his view the discipline is vibrant, with UK scientists able to access better international facilities. For the rest of us, it is important that we continue to support basic sciences such as radioastronomy (or indeed my own discipline of molecular pharmacology), if only because they reveal beauty that can inspire and lift us. As a Christian and a scientist, I wonder at the mystery of the God who works through the Big Bang, quantum mechanics and natural selection to create and sustain.
