How to Fill a God-Shaped Hole

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THE GREAT PARTNERSHIP: GOD, SCIENCE AND THE SEARCH FOR MEANING by Jonathan Sacks Hodder & Stoughton, Pounds 18.99, 370pp Pounds 17.09 from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030

We need all of our brain to understand and appreciate the world around us. The left-brain, associated largely with scientific activity, and the right hemisphere concerned with religious matters, must work in unison. But they also have to be kept apart. The logic of one does not apply to the other. The challenge of our time is to keep the two separate but integrated and in balance. This, in essence, is the main message of The Great Partnership.

The learned and humane Jonathan Sacks …