LEADERSHIP COLUMNIST BAGS CAMBRIDGE AWARD

 

The Leadership columnist on Science and Islam, Ali Abubakar SadIq, has won one of the two slots offered to Journalist across the world to attend a short course in science and religion by the Faraday Institute of Science and Religion based in Cambridge this January.

The Institute involves group of scholars based at St Edmund's College linked informally to a cohort of eminent Professors based mainly within the scientific community, who are actively involved in science-religion interactions through publishing and lecturing. The  Professors comprise an informal network of academics, mainly in Europe, lecturing and/or writing in the arena of science and religion who assist the Institute in its activities and who in turn are helped in various practical ways in their academic activities. The majority of them work full-time within the scientific community

The Faraday Institute derives its name from Micheal Faraday, one of Britain's best-known scientists, who saw his faith as integral to his scientific research. The Faraday Institute has a Christian ethos, but encourages engagement with a wide diversity of opinions concerning interactions between science and religion, without engaging in advocacy. It aims to provide accurate information in order to facilitate informed debate.

The award was initiated a few years back to enable Journalist reporting on religion to attend a short course composed of series of lectures by eminent Professors in an effort towards more understanding the relationship between science and religion. Among the lecturers on this years event is Rev. Dr Polkinghorne, the recipient of the Templeton award. Every year 30 journalists from across the world attend the course, but only two from low-income countries are offered bursary, the bursary was made possible by a grant from the American Templeton foundation which is the leader in the promotion to a better understanding between science and religion. The Templeton foundation offer grants, in millions of Dollars, to various institution for the promotion of science and religion. It also gave away the largest monetary award of $1.5 Million Dollars (Higher than he Nobel Prize) every year to an individual (irrespective of religion) who promotes a better understanding between science and religion.

Ali Abubakar Sadiq was one of the two out of hundreds of journalist from low-income countries, nominated and offered a bursary to attend the 2008 course. He was born in Kano in 1969 and Graduated from Bayero University in 1995 with a degree in Hausa Language and Islamic Studies. He maintained columns in both  the English and Hausa language weeklies on science and religion in the Leadership Newspapers. He is married with two children.  

    

 

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