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| 4 discoveries that support that God exists: |
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1. 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
2. Impossibility of spontaneous generation of life from non-life
3. Genetic information theory
4 Anthropic Principle |
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| Secular Humanism - cosmology |
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1. External matter spontaneously generated life and the human mind through the evolutionary process.
2. Anthropic principle |
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| 3 important people of Christianity |
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1. W.J. Niedhardt
2. C.S. Lewis
3. Sir John Eccies |
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| Marxism-Leninism ontology |
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1. ultimate substance and cause is ever-changing dialectical mater
2. matter exists and is eternal and is the ultimate substance or reality |
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| Blaise Pascal - "Any man can do what Muhammad has done; for he performed no miracles...No man can do what Christ has done." |
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| C.S. Lewis - "In science we have been reading the notes of the poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself." |
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| Carl Sagan - the cosmos is all that is or ever was or all that will be |
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| Dualism - mind is immaterial, body is material |
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| Dualism - mind is immaterial, body is material |
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| Marxism-Leninism - people |
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| Fredrick Engels - The world is not to be comprehended as a complex of ready-made things, but as a complex of revolutionary processes. |
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| God is the supreme source of all being and reality. |
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| Jacques Derrida - French philosopher known for deconstruction (the reader's interpretation is more important than the text) |
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| Jean Francois Lyotard - metanarrative is incredulous |
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| Joseph Campbell - What;s the meaning of hte universe? It's just there. That's it. And your own meaning is that you're there. |
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Kalam Cosmological Argument:
1. Did the universe have a beginning or has it always existed?
2. Was the beginning caused or uncaused?
3. Is the agent of cause personal or impersonal? |
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| Marxism-Leninism - people |
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| Karl Marx - As long as we actually observe and think, we cannot possibly get away from materialism. |
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| Marxism-Leninism - mind/body |
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| Mental functions are functions of highly developed matter, namely, the brain |
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| Cosmic Humanism - mind/body |
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| Monism - all is one, but the ultimate reality is spiritual, not material |
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| Secular Humanism - mind/body |
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| Monoism - the body and mind are both material substances |
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| Muhammad - Even though Muslims believe in miracles, the fact that Muhammad was a prophet who did no miracles does not bother them |
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| Neal Donald Walsh - author of fifteen books on spirituality in everyday life |
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| Richard Rorty - truth is whatever his community of scholars allow him to get away with |
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| Shakti Gawain - "When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for external authority, validation and approval from others, we give our personal power away." |
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| Sir John Eccies - "Having a mind means one is conscious and that consciousness is a mental event not a material one." |
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| V.I Lenin - Matter is primary nature. Sensation, thought, consciousness are the highest products of matter organized in a certain way |
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| W.J. Niedhardt - "Faith correctly viewed is that illumination by which true rationality begins." |
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| acknowledging the Big Bang metaphor suggests a creative point, which is outside the purview of SH cosmology |
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| all knowledge originates from experience |
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| Cosmic Humanism - ontology |
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| all things are honored and precious manifestations of God |
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| assume that the "counselor" or "comforter" in John 14:16 is Muhammad and that we have confused the words parakletos and pariclytos |
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| comprehend, infer, think in orderly ways |
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| concern for fact and reality; reject impractical and visionary |
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| greatly influenced by Greek philosophers |
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| Secular Humanism - ontology |
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| Secular Humanism - mind/body |
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| mind arose from the evoutionary process - computers are the next step in the chain |
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| most rational of all worldviews |
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| necessary existence in intellect is the basis for Necessary Existent. |
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| Marxism-Leninism - mind/body |
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| our mind reflects matter in a way that makes our perception accurate |
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| reality is constructed by language; no matter how a writer constructs a sentence. It can never tell us about the real world, but only about the world as it is understood by the reader. |
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| reason as the basis for truth |
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| requires more faith than any other philosphy |
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| scientific method - limited, but a valuable ally |
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| study of the existence of being - what we mean when we say something exists |
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| study of the relationship of the mind to the physical body |
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| study of the structure, origin, and design of the universe |
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| Marxism-Leninism cosmology |
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| the universe is the only thing that exists. It always has and always will. |
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| Secular Humanism - mind/body |
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| there is no life after death |
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