... By definition, philosophy is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline. I think philosophy is the understanding and reasoning for the things we do. People question the fundamental truth about themselves and the world they live in. Generally philosophy can be divided into four major areas of study, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and logic. The subject matter and methods of philosophy can relate to the reasons we inherit ideas generation after generation. The subject matter and method of philosophy can be split into different explanations, examples and reasons that in turn make up the understanding people have for philosophy. Philosophy proposes many different questions about beliefs and everyday ethics but it also guides people to solve the questions they have come up with. Some questions may be answered very differently depending on the person, but the goal is not merely the answer or arguments but whether or not the arguments are good and answers are true. Going more into detail about the subject matter of philosophy which is closely connected with the sort of questions that have dominated philosophical investigation. Everything in existence is the subject matter of philosophy, for example some topics may be art, beauty, cause, desire, family, god, nature, one and the many, and reasoning just to name some. The method of philosophy is the study of how to do philosophy. It also can...
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...REVIEW 24 CONCLUSION 26 Introduction The “Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament”, by Walton covers many issues which an individual unless wanting to seek more than what is written in the bible would want to perform endless days of research and ability to see firsthand by reading Walton’s book. These areas covered in Walton’s book cover the time from when the Old Testament had begun to be written back in BC and later re-found along with other textual artifacts earth in the 18 and mid 19th century AD. The discoveries of both biblical, and other un-biblical artifacts is covered within Walton’s book to how and why some individuals who have a different form of religious beliefs. To how in the past the individual living during early Near Eastern thought processes had been in regards to God or in many cases when not Israeli or Christian involved gods which were based off an individual’s personal interpretation. Which then in many cases spawned a different form of religion, in many cases were based off an event which. The many different form of religious beliefs covered in stem from the mythological Near Eastern form of thought process. In addition, to the aspect of how such un-Christian aspects from the past being so different from Christian gave further need...
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...themselves particularly well to this investigation due to the prominent role of inductivism in both these AoK. The five key steps to inductivism; observation, hypothesis, experiment, law, and theory require the use of perception and reason to validate knowledge in these AoK, and hence the aforementioned WoK become distinctly useful in the analysis of this knowledge issue. Moreover, due to the abundance of new research occurring in many areas of the natural and human sciences, these AoKs are appropriate in order to probe the timelessness of knowledge itself. In terms of epistemology, knowledge itself is misconceived to be overly broad, with many people confusing knowledge with information. We often take for granted what the true nature of...
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...SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY Characteristics of Social Science Introduction One of the livelier academic debates of recent years has concerned the "scientific" status of those disciplines gathered under the rubric of the social sciences-typically including sociology, political science, social psychology, economics, anthropology, and sometimes fields such as geography, history, communications, and other composite and specialty fields, basically at issue like whether human behavior can be subjected to scientific study. It is a firm assumption of social scientists now-a-days that social behaviour can be subjected to scientific study as legitimately as can atoms, cells and so forth. Like physical scientists, social scientists seek to discover regularity and order. The social scientist looks for regularity in social behavior. He does this through careful observation and measurement, discovery of relationship, and framing of models and theories. The Search for Social Regularities Measuring Social Phenomena The first building block of science is measurement, or systematic observation. There is no fundamental reason why social scientists cannot measure phenomena relevant to their enquiry. The age and sex of people can be measured. Place of birth and marital status can be measured in a number of different ways, varying in accuracy and economy. Aggregate social behaviour can be measured systematically as well. The political...
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...we seek for the truth in the word of God, which is the Bible, and the ultimate source of truth and knowledge. The opening statement of the book of Genesis 1:1 reads as follow ” In the Beginning God created the heaven and Earth” (King). Here is evidence that prove that the Supreme Being, which is God, is the only and unique basis of the creation of universe. It does not emphasize on the beginning of God, as there is not beginning or end to the existence of God. But, rather it tells us about the beginning of time and the creation of earth, as well as the environment in which we live. The book of Genesis explains in specific details how the sequence of events developed. The word of God is not a fictional source of entertainment like Charles Darwin’s book “ On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection”. Although evolutionary theory is an opposition of the biblical account of creation we believe the Bible provides an accurate account that explains the creation of the earth and life not only because is the word of God but also because there is not any scientific evidence that contradict the bible. The bible demonstrate us how everything was created and thought of by a living being. (Clarifying Christianity) Henry M. Morris article ”The Scientific Case against Evolution” the author argues, “ That the absence of evidence for evolution in term of macroevolution (which...
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...to English, that is known as the King James Bible today. (Lang). These two very different theories on how everything came to be have been controversial topics for hundreds of years. Science highlights the belief in evolution, making us doubt the true and preserved word of God which states that humans were created in the beginning on the sixth day ("King James Bible Quick Facts"). Religion is defined as a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation...
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...English Preacher named Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) once said, “By perseverance, the snail reached the ark.” That is true with the gastropoda species, Latin for stomach foot. Gastropods have persevered throughout time, becoming one of the oldest surviving species with over 600 named species, over 200 hundred from fossil records stretching back to the late Cambrian period, which was centered in the Paleozoic Era, almost 500 million years ago. With all gastropods being unique and mostly fascinating, this paper will focus mainly on snails, briefly touching on what gastropods are and centering on why snails are evolutionary marvels and why a snails shell makes it a curious species. What makes gastropods what they are are their unique body compositions and their classification as an invertebrate. Gastropods are commonly described as a slimy, squishy “bugs” accompanied with or without a shell. This is mostly true minus the bug part because gastropods are members of the Mollusca (mollusk) genus, which are classified as non-vertebrate animals. Other members of the mollusk family are squids, clams, mussels, and octopods. There are over 50,000 known species of gastropods, 35,000 or so of which make up a portion of land-dwelling gastropods like snails and slugs. Snails in particular have evolved into marvelous organisms, creatures which still fascinate modern studies because of their unique structures and adaptability. Gastropods, snails in this instance, have three main body sections...
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...community tells you that everyday people such as yourself are the cause for global warming and that its effect on the earth will be catastrophic if we don’t stop our co2 output. Personally I do believe the earth is warming but not because of anything humans have done but on natural causes that cannot be helped and that won’t have catastrophic consequences. The media keeps telling us a one-sided story, that we are the cause for global warming and the only way to stop it is to support the scientific community by donating money to finding a source of energy that doesn’t produce as much or any co2 as a byproduct. These include solar, wind, water, etc. as sources of energy, but the only thing is that they are unreliable and expensive. The solar panels only gather energy when the sun is out to shine but when it isn’t the power goes. The same is true for wind and water. Also because they are expensive the poorer countries cannot afford them. The government is trying to get everyone to use renewable energy and if this happens the poorer countries would have to make do without any electricity and would be even more economically challenged then they are now. As the media keeps talking about global warming and its effect on the weather which is partially true because they still say that it’s the co2 in the atmosphere that is causing it. This is wrong because studies of the ice cores of Greenland that tell us that there was a period in time when there was more co2 in the atmosphere and...
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...Ever wonder how mankind was introduced to Earth? How it is possible that humans now conquer the Earth? These questions relate to one of the biggest debates in world history. This debate argues if the world was created from evolution or by God, who created Adam and Eve. Evolution says, that life evolved from species, while the creation method says that God created Adam and Eve, mother and father to us all. In our society today, we are split in the thought process of how the world and mankind came about. Was it by the all-powerful God, or does science effectively explain these answers? Truth is, no one knows for sure how anything came to be about. We have scientific evidence to back evolution, and the biblical text to back the creation myths. In the ever-going argument of evolution vs creation, it is by far more plausible to say that man derived from evolution rather...
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...Space exploration has been in the minds of people most likely since the first man or woman looked up at the stars, its always been around for as long as we can remember. It started out small, with singular scientists working out their own theories, going off of ideas of what they thought may be true. In fact the oldest known record we have of the use of “Astronomy” was the greek scientist Eratosthenes (276 B.C.- 195 B.C.), who used the sun to calculate the size of the earth, and got very close with his ancient measurement. This and many other events in history lead to what we call space exploration today. What is space exploration you ask? “Isn’t it just a huge waste of money?” is what some individuals would have you believe. The space program here in the united states is currently expanding as it is, but it still all stems from one fundamental place: NASA. But, It is a sad fact, that in reality, NASA does not get as much money, contrary to what is perceived by the american people, and what it does with that miniscule amount of funding is amazing; therefore, NASA should continue to gain funding for its many programs, such as the unrenown research of the universe benefiting both space, and earth at home, and how NASA helps bring closer the ideals and promotes the coexistence of humans across the world; And so,...
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...Israelites. Additionally, while having broad focus on what to fix may be preferable to some, there are better methods for beginning the conservation work. In the very first book of the Holy Bible we see God demanding of us to be stewards of the environment. In the Bible we see, “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” (ESV Study Bible: English Standard Version, Gen. 2:15) In this passage it is clearly apparent that God assigned the responsibility of stewardship of the planet to man. By taking a more allegorical approach to this particular piece of the Bible, a reader can see that the Garden of Eden is actually the planet Earth itself, pre-sin, and God’s placement of Man and directions to him as the charge put forth on maintaining the planet. Yet another example is found in Leviticus 25:23, “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.” In this verse, it can be gathered that, in effect, mankind is not truly natural in this world and that God is essentially allowing Man to “borrow” the planet Earth, until a time when He chooses to retake it. Even in the New Testament, there are several instances where Jesus Christ points out the important of being a good steward to the land and the rewards that will be inherited in the afterlife as a...
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...age of the universe is about _________. * 14 billion years * A television advertisement claiming that a product is light-years ahead of its time does not make sense because _________. * it uses "light-years" to talk about time, but a light-year is a unit of distance * The term observable universe refers to _________. * that portion of the universe that we can see in principle, given the current age of the universe * On a scale in which the distance from Earth to the Sun is about 15 meters, the distance from Earth to the Moon is _________. * small enough to fit within your hand * On a scale where the Sun is about the size of a grapefruit and the Earth is about 15 meters away, how far away are the nearest stars besides the Sun? * About the distance across the United States * The number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy is approximately _________. * a few hundred billion * An astronomical unit (AU) is _________. * the average distance between Earth and the Sun * This distance is about 150 million...
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...EARTH PERSPECTIVES The biological and geological future of the Earth can be extrapolated based upon the estimated effects of several long-term influences. These include the chemistry at the Earth's surface, the rate of cooling of the planet's interior, the gravitational interactions with other objects in the Solar System, and a steady increase in the Sun's luminosity. An uncertain factor in this extrapolation is the ongoing influence of technology introduced by humans, such as geoengineering, which could cause significant changes to the planet. The current biotic crisis is being caused by technology and the effects may last for up to five million years. In turn, technology may result in the extinction of humanity, leaving the planet to gradually return to a slower evolutionary pace resulting solely from long-term natural processes. Hawking: How Humankind Will Survive the Future Listen, people of Earth: Everything's going to be fine. All we have to do is survive another century or two without self-destructing as a species. Then we'll get off this rock, spread throughout space, and everything will be all right. If this is not your idea of "optimism," then you are not Stephen Hawking. The esteemed physicist garnered headlines, and some eye-rolls, after telling Big Think last week that humanity needs to leave the Earth in the future or face extinction. As The Atlantic noted: He's not knocking climate scientists' attempts to figure things out on Earth-he's just thinking long...
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...In an article on Earthworks website states there are times of fracking that can cause earthquakes one during the injection of fluids near pre-existing faults. The other is one brought up before which is disposal of fracking waste water (Earth Works). The articles that argued fracking wasn’t a cause seem to consider the disposal of the fracking waste water as a complete other process in itself. One could argue that the disposal of the fracking waste water is part of the fracking process. One of the arguments made by the articles that argued that fracking did not cause earthquakes said that any earthquakes caused by fracking where rare and too small to matter. The Earthworks article had something different to say stating that there have been large earthquakes including a 5.7 in Oklahoma may have been caused by fracking and is under study. In an article by Noah Rayman states that fracking to close to faults in Ohio caused a dozen earth tremors which prompted strict permit conditions (Raymen, 2015). According to the many articles that argue that Fracking is a cause of earth quacks there is a pattern and say that if there was no fracking there would be less reasons to pump fracking fluid and waste water near faults thus stopping these...
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...between “subject” and “object”, and it is this very gap that provoked the question of true objectivity. Can we reach true objectivity and in essence, know an object in itself? Although many philosophers found their own ways of bridging the epistemological gap and proposed many intellectual explanations, I found that for myself personally, none of the theories settled quite perfectly for me. There was always a lingering question among the theories as their own separate entities, and so as a believer of a mélange of different ideas and philosophies, I must say that I do not believe that the epistemological gap can be bridged. Plato first began to tackle the epistemological gap by presenting the idea of “Forms”. He insisted that through love here in existence, we are pointed to the perfect forms above, with each step up being a step closer to the higher Forms. He believed that all things in existence participated in the perfections above us. For example, anything beautiful here on earth partakes in the bigger, higher Form of “Beauty” in the heavens. Plato gives the cave parable in his dialectical The Republic to further explain the pathway from denseness to clear. All people on earth view only the shadows reflected off the wall of a cave, while real life is going on outside in the mouth of a cave. Between mankind and the mouth of the cave is a cascading fire that casts the shadows of the real and true Forms outside. Plato mentions a divine creator Demiurge, who shaped the world from...
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