Module/Week 3: Mankind and Sin Textbook Readings: Towns: Chs. 8 & 10 Chapter 8 1. What point does the author illustrate with an elephant and 4 blind men? …Comparing it to the way people describe and see life and the world 2. Do Moslem leaders claim that Christianity and Islam are alike in that Allah was “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ?” No 3. What are the 4 questions that Darwinians have not been able to answer? - Where is the missing link - How can man evolve
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called on to write on religions which are other than their own. The aim of such essay writing assignments would be to increase awareness and empathy of other religions as much as to develop writing skills. In writing an essay on a religion‚ immaterial of whether it is your own or not‚ one must extend utmost sensitivity and tactfulness. Bear in mind that all religions basically teach humans to be better persons although their values and beliefs can differ markedly. Some religions such as Christianity
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Naturalism is‚ ironically‚ a controversial philosophy. Our modern civilization depends totally for its existence and future survival on the methods and fruits of science‚ naturalism is the philosophy that science created and that science now follows with such success‚ yet the great majority of humans (at least 90% of the U.S. population) believe in the antithesis of naturalism--supernaturalism. Our culture persistently indulges and celebrates supernaturalism‚ and most people‚ including some scientists
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substances Material v Immaterial Substance * Aristotle is reductionist‚ what Aristotle is tring to do is looking forward to us and say wel look I really my self odont know what the universe works. But whatever the universe works it will always be reduced to matter and form. * There is a lot of forms * Some substance can change while retaining tier identity (MATERIAL) * They contain matter and form (all sensible substances) * Some substances cannot change (IMMATERIAL) * They
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Nature The Akan philosophers Wiredu and Gyekye agree the okra (soul) is the innermost self of the person‚ but disagree whether the nature of the okra is a material or immaterial substance. Wiredu insist the okra is different from the Western philosophy’s perceived soul‚ because to the West the term soul refers to "a purely immaterial entity that somehow inhabits the body. The okra‚ by contrast‚ is quasi-physical." (1) The okra for Gyekye has the same concept of a soul as in other metaphysical systems
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in the future. Miller claims that survival includes a merger with being. According to Miller’s definition of survival‚ Gretchen will not be her body‚ but her soul‚ self‚ and mind in the future. Therefore‚ Gretchen’s conscious‚ the nonphysical and immaterial parts of her‚ will continue to exist beyond the death of her body. Weirob‚ in response‚ contends that‚ “To be conscious” is a verb that requires a subject‚ a body‚ and if there is no body‚ because it dies‚ then one will not be conscious. From their
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exist. This method of thinking stems directly from a belief‚ not that science is god‚ but more that mankind is a self-sufficient‚ self-reliant being along with the philosophy of materialism and evolution which denies the possibility of soul or the immaterial. This resulted in the hijacking of science to prove what materialists already believed‚ that everything is relative and truth exists only if it can be proven by science. This is‚ as a materialist already knows‚ an issue that can only relate to the
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that “same body is correlated with same soul” and claims that “the two are intimately related but not identical” (Perry‚ 371). One is material‚ it has shape and size‚ it could be seen‚ touched and perceived – that is the body; and the other one is immaterial‚ it has no shape‚ size or color‚ it cannot be perceived – that is the soul. He thinks that survival after death is possible. According to him‚ after the body dies‚ the soul that belongs to the death body‚ its consciousness‚ continues to live. It
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1. Why does Molex have to hire external auditors? The major reason for firms to hire external auditors is to help the control of conflict of interest between firm managers‚ investors and shareholders. External auditors help you determine whether companies are in compliance with all applicable Internal Revenue Service rules. Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act‚ a public company must hire an external audit team to review their accounting procedures and their financial statements. While internal auditor checks
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Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that looks to define reality. It seeks to determine what is real from what may seem real‚ to separate reality from appearance. To give an example‚ a person may appear to be in picture perfect health but actually is suffering from terminal brain cancer. Appearances might not always show the true nature of an object. There are differing views that examine the concept of reality. One view is monism. Monism is the theory that the basis of reality is from a single
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