...has been “Does God really exists?” This is a topic that has been debated over for centuries. How can one really know if God does exist? What is the proof, if there is any? Could the possibility between science and religion give us that proof? These are all question that have been asked over and over, again and again, and time after time. Definitely, no greater issue is argued for, or argued against than the probability of the existence or non-existence of a supreme being. So where does science and religion fit into this puzzle? Did the universe just evolve over time, as science says it has? Or, did a powerful being just drop everything into motion, as religion states? Since traveling the theistic road of fideism and the non-theistic paths of naturalism and positivism (Alexander, 2008), individuals just keep repeating “does science and religion have conflicting contradictions towards our universe?” Science and religion have two very distinctive ways when approaching knowledge and natural occurring events. Science is more in relation to mathematics, and religion follows life experiences. As for understanding knowledge and natural occurring events, science leans more towards the descriptive side and religion would be more prescriptive (John, 2008). Science concentrates on how the world ought to be, like the way religion precedes it to be. The relationship between science and religion has traditionally been understood that if any conflict does exist it is based on epistemology...
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...The creation of our world has been the topic of debate for quite a while now. Some people believe in evolution while others believe in creationism. Others fall somewhere in the middle accepting that both can co-exist. Creation stories have been used since the beginning of time to explain and provide meaning to the complex nature of our existence. Different cultures and religions have creation stories on how life came to be. The creation stories from the perspective of the Kono people of Guinea and The Hebrew share some commonalities but differ in other areas as they explain the origin of the Earth, its life, and its peoples. The creation story of the Kono people explains that in the beginning there was nothing. That neither matter nor light existed. The story then explains that the God Alatangana created earth followed by plants and animals. He then took death’s daughter as a wife to populate the world. The story explains the creation of light and also talks about humans being cursed. The Hebrew story is similar in that it also explains how the earth was created first and then the plants and animals. The Hebrew story also explains the creation of light and humans became cursed. The Kono story of creation begins with the existence of death. This story also includes the family unit as already being in existence by including Sa and his wife and daughter. Since Sa had the power to make a world of mud and then create light, he had god-like powers as...
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...Everyone seems to have their own thoughts and beliefs on whether or not a God exists who created and designed the universe and everything in it. Dr. Frank Turek and Christopher Hitchens are no exception in the matter, as they displayed in their debate at Virginia Commonwealth University on September 9, 2008. Dr. Turek, co-author of “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist,” embraces a Christian, or theistic, worldview while Mr. Hitchens, author of “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything,” is very explicitly an atheist. Throughout the debate, Christopher Hitchens used his quick wit and sarcasm to bring forth some strong arguments against Christian beliefs. One of the arguments was that of the presence of various religions-if there are so many different religions, how can they all be correct and true? If I were to ask a Christian, a Muslim, and a Buddhist to tell me about God, they would each have remarkably different stories to share. The Christian would of course tell me all about God, while the Muslim would praise Allah, and the Buddhist would likely speak of the Buddha, and each one would claim that their view was supreme. Another argument that Hitchens offered was that it could not be proven that Jesus was born to the Virgin Mary. When the angel told Mary that she was highly favored in Luke 1:28, she was given grace, which is only imparted upon sinners. If Mary was a sinner, then she could not have birthed Jesus Christ, as he was theoretically pure and free...
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...Secularism A Religion Profile from International Students, Inc. Secularism: An Overview Number of Adherents Demographer Davit Barrett estimates that there are 150 million atheists and 768 million nonreligious people in the world. The combined total comes to more than 918 million people (Barrett). Toward the end of the Renaissance, the modern method of empirical science began to develop. The key players were Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543), Johannes Kepler (15711630), and Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Although it may seem ironic now, each of these men believed in the Christian God. They viewed science as studying the handiwork of an almighty Creator and discerning His natural laws. Galileo considered God to have written two “books”: the Bible and nature (Hummel, p. 106). Contrary to popular belief, the cause for the diversion between Christianity and science originated not with the Church but with the university professors who were threatened by Galileo’s revolutionary ideas. These professors were steeped in the Greek scientific method, which included observation to a small extent, but mostly explained the workings of nature through rational deduction from first principles, or assumptions, an entire view of the universe had been built up. Consequently, the professors embraced such misconceptions as the sun having no imperfections, the moon being a perfectly smooth sphere that shone with its own light, and the earth alone having a moon since the earth was at the center of the...
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...world held by an individual or a group…” Weltanschauug is also cited in “Weider and Gutierrez’s’ text Consider as a widely accepted term and was first coined by the Prussian philosopher, Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Judgment published in 1790.” It appears that many philosophers will agree that “Worldview” is one’s perception of the world. Everyone has a “worldview” but may not be aware of this view. Conscience or not it dictates how they live or act in the world…Worldview does not necessarily have to do with a perception of the world or the planet but instead it deals with a thought process that is developed from several sources. Our culture, our environment, Parents, teachers, beliefs, and our own reasoning affect our worldview. One can have many worldviews; however the worldview that” most” allow to dictate or the view that is practiced by most is their religious worldview. Children generally follow the religious worldview of their parents…they trust their parents. So a child who is reared in a Christian household would learn the views and values of the Christian and from there he/she will form or add on to those views as they grow into adult hood. Parents influence every aspect of their children’s...
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...Atheism vs. Catholicism For some reason or another Atheists feel they need to beat you over the head with their view of creation, laws, the Bible, God, the Constitution and more. They consistently tell Christians that they are wrong. Atheists, agnostics and other nonbelievers will always seem to quote science, scientists, NASA and others. Using scientific theory to disprove the Bible is like using gasoline to put out a fire, The reverse of that would be using the Bible to prove the existence of UFO’s, it cannot be done. The Bible is “the” source of explanatory information about all of the things that the Atheists attempt to debunk with scientific theory. Atheists seem to have a mental block about the reality of the real truth about who is responsible for even their own existence. They are more than willing to put their trust in Charles Darwin who wrote a book 150 years ago titled “On the Origin of Species” and is now commonly known as the Theory of Evolution. Atheists have no problem putting their full trust in the fact that we all descended from a common ancestor, which is what Darwin’s book was really about. Even though there is no proof to this date that Darwin was correct 150 years ago, when labs and science were in their infancy; Atheists believe he was right but they just cannot believe the Bible. The Bible is filled with witnesses to the events describe in it. Additionally, it is filled with witnesses to prophecy; both to prophecy as it was being fulfilled...
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...| The theory of evolution has been the key-note of the thought of the nineteenth century. It has not only affected all its science and its thought-attitude, but powerfully influenced its moral temperaments, its politics and its society. In society and politics it has led to the substitution of the evolutionary for the moral idea of progress and the consequent materialisation of social ideas and social progress, the victory of the economic man over the idealistThe materialistic view of the world is now rapidly collapsing and with it the materialistic statement of the evolution theory must disappear. Modern European thought progress with a vertiginous rapidity. At present this spirit of questioning has not attacked the evolution theory at its centre, but it is visibly preparing to give it a new form and meaning.The general idea of evolution was the filiation of each successive form or state of things to that which preceded it, its appearance by process of out-bringing or deploying of some possibility prepared and even necessitated by previous states and previous tendencies. The idea of the struggle for life tends to be modified and even denied; it is asserted that, at least as popularly understood, it formed no real part of Darwinism. Finally, the first idea of a slow and gradual evolution is being challenged by a new theory of evolution through sudden and rapid outbursts; and again we pass from the sense of an obvious superficial machinery and all sufficient material necessity...
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...the attached links to research the basic moral and ethical principles believed by each group. Then determine how you believe each group will react to the issue based on what you find. Provide a brief justification for your answer. After completing the matrix, write a 300- to 500-word summary of the significant similarities and differences among the different religious groups. SCHOOL ISSUES Prayer in School Creationism v. Evolution Studying Women’s Rights in the Middle East Saying the Pledge of Allegiance Starting a Gay and Lesbian Support Group Inter-Racial Dating COMMUNITY RELIGIOUS GROUPS Pro/Con Justify your answer Pro/Con Justify your answer Pro/Con Justify your answer Pro/Con Justify your answer Pro/Con Justify your answer Pro/Con Justify your answer Atheist Con According to the BBC website, many atheists are "hostile" to any special treatment given to organized religion; they may find prayer in school to be offensive, as atheists tend to believe that a God is not a necessary belief. Pro Evolution Atheists would be pro-evolution, as evolution tends to use scientific evidence to justify its assumptions. According to the BBC website, "Atheists say that far from God being a good explanation for the world, it's God that now requires explaining." They would most likely be uncomfortable with creationism, as it is based in Christian values. Pro Atheists tend to stress the equality of male and female, and therefore would likely support the study of women's rights in the middle...
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...Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh-211004, India vibhava.sri@gmail.com www.mnnit.ac.in Abstract Contemporary Marketing Management identifies Relationship Marketing (RM) as a paradigm shift from traditional marketing practices to a strategic function. It is not only concerned with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) but also plays a significant role in value creation process at all levels across the value delivery network. Effort is made hereby to further validate this statement through secondary literature sources and various references taken out from current industry practices. The focus of the study is to understand the concept of relationship marketing, its evolution and its role in current business scenario. This study is proposed to understand the basic research problem i.e. “How value is created in a value delivery network (Supply Chain) through relationship marketing”? The study concludes by proposing a hypothetical model of relationship marketing across a value delivery network. Effort is being made hereby to identify various types of relationships that exist across value delivery network, their functions, and finally to identify the key performance variables that add value through relationship marketing in a value delivery network. The proposed model further provides a scope for research by identifying various research questions and hypothesis to test its applicability in various industries in the current business scenario. Key...
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...musical score (List 363). Whether it is a professional group or just friends gathered around with a few guitars, forms of folk music are still a large part of our culture. However, people today seem to lack knowledge of what folk music is and the importance if it. When did people start to think like this? It is through the evolution of folk music that the answer to this question can be answered. The idea of folk music has existed for at least 200 years, and throughout this time, it has faced the same stereotype; folk songs, they thought, could only be found only among an agrarian, illiterate peasantry; literacy, urbanization, and modernization were thought to work against folk tradition (Titon 167). This makes it seem as if folk music is an artifact, only to be imitated without chance of actual creation. However the idea of “process” in folk music has been becoming more acceptable as performance and context are being used more regularity to define what folk music is, broadening its definition to fit today’s modern society. With respect to our folk group, we perform together; we also share our folk music with family and friends on particular occasions. Many aspects can link this informal experience, for us it is mainly linked...
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...the answer to all these questions with the stories of gods and other supernatural forces that were beyond the understanding of humans. Where science seems able to explain everything with prove and evidence right before your eyes. Science deals with the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. ‘’Creationism", another view on man's origin, means belief in creation in a more general sense. A Creationist may believe that the earth is billions of years old, and that simple forms of life evolved gradually to form more complex forms including humans. In addition to that belief, however, is the belief that a supernatural Creator initiated the life process and continues to control it. The most reasonable view on the origin of mankind is known as naturalistic evolution. It means a gradual process by which one kind of living creature changes into something different; evolution that is not directed by any purposeful intelligence. Another part of the idea is that more complex forms have arisen from simpler forms. Tracing back to the simplest living thing, a bacterium, and scientists may find the origin of mankind by finding something even simpler, something out of which bacteria they came. Recent work has revealed the existence of a group of bacteria that are as different from other bacteria as the latter are from plants and animals. The abundance of evidence...
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...#1 subscription-based massively multi-player online role-playing game, World of Warcraft®” (Activisionblizzard.com/About-Us), Activision Blizzard has become one of the more well-known publishers in the world. Activision Blizzard Inc. maintains operations on four continents while providing coverage for online games throughout the entire connected world. The original company, Activision, encompassed by the holding company known as Activision Blizzard was founded in October 1979 in, Northern California, as the “first independent developer and distributor of entertainment software.” (Timeline) Activision was founded by disgruntled programmers that were not being recognized or appropriately compensated by Atari for their hand in the game creation that was accounting for millions of dollars of annual revenue for the company. David Crane, Alan Miller, Larry Kaplan and Bob Whitehead were known as the “Gang of Four,” (Fleming, 2012) when they decided to leave Atari and start a new company that produced games for the Atari console instead of becoming independent contractors for Atari. The “Gang of Four,” worked out of David Crane’s apartment, programming a development system for Activision. There first games hit the shelves in 1980 with titles including Dragster, Boxing, Fishing Derby and Checkers....
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... In essence, one must not go against the natural processes if one would like to ensure a continuous and steady supply of resources. One natural process that needs serious attention is nutrient cycling. In nature, nutrients pass from the environment to the organisms and back to the environment. Any disruption in the cycle can bring about imbalance. For example, burning of farm wastes instead of allowing them to decompose naturally disrupts the cycle. In burning, most of the organic compounds are lost. The combustion products bring greater havoc as in the case of carbon dioxide build-up, which results in the warming-up of the earth, or the so-called "greenhouse" effect. Nature has also its built-in mechanisms to maintain balance of homeostasis - the availability of nutrients, conduciveness of the environment for growth and reproduction, and the feeding relationships that exist between and among organisms which serve as population controls. For example, the rat population is controlled by the presence and number of its predators, e.g., snakes. The use of chemical pesticides and fertilizer disrupts check and balance in the ecosystem. Pesticides can either kill vital organisms directly or induce genetic changes that result in resistant pests or organisms. Chemical fertilizers increase the acidity of the soil through time making a...
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...MSc in Sustainable Development Dissertation Thesis "Participatory destination management and creative tourism: From co-production of tourism products to co-creation of experiences. Α reality and stakeholders' check for Thessaloniki, Greece." Christos Patikas Supervisor: Dr. Marianna Sigala Thessaloniki, 2014 Table of contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………….3 1. Chapter 1: Introduction…………………………………………………………………...4 2. Chapter 2: Literature review 2.1.: The destination………………………………………………………………...7 2.2.: Participatory destination management 2.2.1.: Destination’s stakeholder’s analysis and management …………10 2.2.1a.: Stakeholders: definition, types, interests and role in destinations 2.2.1b.: Stakeholder’s management approaches………………..11 2.2.2.: The role of DMO in destination management…………………...12 2.3.: Destination Governance……………………………………………………..15 2.4.: Community based tourism…………………………………………………..20 2.5.: Creative tourism 2.5.1.: From cultural tourism to creative tourism……………………….22 2.5.2.: Creative tourism importance and implementation……………….24 2.5.3.: Creative tourism and participatory destination management…....26 2.5.4.: DMO’s role in supporting and fostering creative tourism………28 2.6.: From co-production of tourism products to co-creation of experiences….30 3. Chapter 3: Research Methodology 3.1.: Research aims…………………………………………………………………32 3.2.: Methods of data collection……………………………………………………32 3.3.: Design of research instruments………………………………………………33 3...
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...debated topic among scientists. Two branches of the theory are the strong anthropic principle (SAP) and the weak anthropic principle (WAP). The SAP states, “The Universe must have those properties which allow life to develop within it at some stage in its history” (www.physics.sfsu.edu). This branch of the anthropic principle has commonly been used in the argument for intelligent design (ID), which puts forth the proposition that a designer is responsible for the balance of the laws of mathematics and physics that ultimately hold our universe together. The WAP says, “The observed values of all physical and cosmological quantities are not equally probable but they take on the values restricted by the requirement that there exist sites where carbon-based life can evolve and by the requirement that the Universe be old enough for it to have already done so” (www.physics.sfsu.edu). This is simply saying that if people were not here to observe and if the universe did not work as it does, then we could not ask why we are here and why the universe works like it does. Although the SAP and WAP are somewhat different, ultimately they both appear to agree that human life is special given all of the circumstances it takes for us to be able to survive. The anthropic principle has created much controversy among scientists, and especially among students in the Heresy: Philosophy, Religion, & Science class. The main source of this discord is the notion put forth primarily by the science community...
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