Chapter 2 “The Primal Question: What Are We?” In book “What If: Religious Themes in Science Fiction”; the second chapter‚ “The Primal Question: What Are We?” Mike Alsford talks about science fiction as anthropology and how he has grouped the understanding of human beings into four categories: Subjects; Agents; Contingent; and Relational/Social. Alsford uses a lot of science fiction TV; Movies; and novels references to explain his conclusion as to “What Are We.” Science fiction as anthropology
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people choose to believe what they see‚ and believing links with knowing as it is a component of knowing. We also choose to see what we believe and therefore both statements are complimentary. Human beings tend to believe with evidence rather than believing in something blindly. Belief is usually based on evidence and the evidence is usually linked with our senses. If we see something‚ we believe in it because we are able to back our assumption with evidence because we have witnessed it. Human
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CHAPTER 1 Man’s Origin--Where Did I come from? Whenever we are seeking to find out the ORIGIN of something‚ we are asking the question‚ "Where did it begin?" "How did it all begin?" "How did it originate?" "Where did it come from?" In this chapter we are concerned about the origin of man. How did man begin? How did the human race get started? Who are my ancestors? One of the most important questions facing every man‚ woman‚ boy and girl is the question WHERE DID HUMANS COME FROM? How did
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fragile existence‚ we should hate and destroy one another. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way. 5) We have discovered that every child who learns‚ and every man who finds work‚ and every sick body that is made whole – like a candle added to an altar – brightens the hope of all the faithful. 6) It is the excitement of becoming – always becoming‚ trying‚ probing‚ resting‚ and trying again but always gaining. 7) If we fail now‚ then we will have forgotten
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What (and How) We Should Eat It is no surprise that with the increased popularity in fast food chains‚ America’s obesity rate has dramatically increased. In a survey done by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)‚ obesity is the number two cause of preventable death‚ with approximately sixty-two percent of American adults overweight‚ up from thirty- two percent in 1994 (Profiling Food Consumption in America). In Susan Brink and Elizabeth Querna’s article “Eat This Now”‚ they discuss
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In “ What Should We Worry About‚” Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner talk about how humans beings are more afraid of the known instead of being scared of the important risks that are unknown. I understand Levitt and Dubner’s point but I disagree. I do not consider the known risks to be scary. I do fear the unknown‚ things like breast cancer‚ heart disease‚ and any form of viruses that can lead to severe sickness or death. These are things that could cause my loved ones and me great pain and
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in a like manner.I’m not going to say that "the media" is totally blameless‚but it is undeniable that they only show what we want to see.Overall "the media" enacts as an amplifier of trends that are already current in society.Thus‚they are seldom (if ever) the ground cause of any problem. They may help in assisting to the severity of the problem‚ but they are not the cause. So what can be the cause of the continuing breakdown of our moral values?The cause of the degradation of society’s morality is
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everyday lives‚ we generally decide what we put on the table but we aren’t exactly sure where our food comes from‚ besides the store. Jamey Lionette and William Saletan have analyzed and questioned the origins of where our food comes from and what our food is. In the article “Please don’t feed the people”‚ William Saletan confronts the shifts in the human race in the increase of obesity as well as constructing an idea of how we became “unhealthy”. Jamey Lionette created “We Are What We Eat”‚ to examine
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Assignment 1 Final draft Yi Chen Should we lie? What is the conversation? In the class we did talk a lot about that. Some said very simply‚ “it’s talking”; some other used dictionary and said “it’s the exchange of information.” They are all right but my definition for the term “conversation” is that it’s basically the one of the connections between human beings‚ which is considered as the most important one and serves as the cornerstone of the human society. Dances and
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Genetic Engineering: Should we or Shouldn’t we? Genetic engineering is a process in which scientists transfer genes from one species to another totally unrelated species. Usually this is done in order to get one organism to produce proteins‚ which it would not naturally produce. The genes taken from one species‚ which code for a particular protein‚ are put into cells of another species‚ using a vector. This can result in the cells producing the desired protein. It is used for producing proteins
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