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did inhibit my progress in the sciences - looking back. Ironically, it was the fusion of technicalknow how with humanities-based subject knowledge (At the <strong>time</strong> of IM2, I was after all areligious education practitioner) which provided the creative energy for RE-Net. At that <strong>time</strong> aconsiderable portion of the GCSE syllabus was spent on the words <strong>and</strong> works of Dr. MartinLuther King Jnr (1929-1968), <strong>and</strong> I used <strong>to</strong> read for pleasure h<strong>is</strong> lesser known theories onscience <strong>and</strong> other aspects of the human condition:"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which <strong>is</strong> power;religion gives man w<strong>is</strong>dom which <strong>is</strong> control. Science deals mainly with facts; religiondeals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary." (MartinLuther King, Jr. 1963)<strong>It</strong> <strong>is</strong> worth re-stating <strong>here</strong> that t<strong>here</strong> were moments around th<strong>is</strong> <strong>time</strong> when th<strong>is</strong> did feel like I wasmaking magic - a phenomenon about which contemporary RE special<strong>is</strong>ts needed <strong>to</strong> have a view.Whether others saw our efforts in th<strong>is</strong> way <strong>is</strong> open <strong>to</strong> question but I can really empath<strong>is</strong>e withthe opening words of Naugh<strong>to</strong>n's (2000) book:"... And as the picture builds the solitary man smiles quietly, for <strong>to</strong> him th<strong>is</strong> <strong>is</strong> a kind ofmiracle." (Naugh<strong>to</strong>n, 2000 p.7)I wasn't expecting <strong>to</strong> find in a hard-nosed scientific study of the h<strong>is</strong><strong>to</strong>ry of arguably the mostmechan<strong>is</strong>tic of all inventions, the computer, a writer prepared <strong>to</strong> use the language of my 'home'd<strong>is</strong>course. But why not? After all, th<strong>is</strong> <strong>is</strong> a multi-d<strong>is</strong>ciplinary study.204Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thes<strong>is</strong> (Oc<strong>to</strong>ber 2012)

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