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Philosophy Questions and Religion

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

God's Existence Arguments

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

Proof, Empirical Evidence, and Scientific Theory

a further truth, it is only common sense that the empirical evidence gathered up to that time is the evidence that is taken to be ...

Life History and Contributions of Paracelsus

which a metal has grown is such a concealment. Each one of the visible metals is a concealment of the other six metals" (The Coelu...

The Central Elements of Chaos Theory

and then interpreted. When the different factors or inputs are altered, the height and distance the item travels will change but n...

Scientific Management and Taylor's Theories

has impacted on mass production and the criticisms of it the starting point needs to be with the work of the founder; Frederick Ta...

Progress of Fat and Genetic Predisposition to Obesity

health. There are morbidly obese people who appear to enjoy being the way they are and actively seek to maintain their stat...

Existence Issues Surrounding Frankenstein's Monster

the science of anatomy: but this was not sufficient; I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body" (Shel...

Connection Between Mood and Exercise

(2001). All would wear heart monitors and were instructed to maintain a target heart rate by pedaling at a particular speed (2001)...

Organizations, Motivation, and Taylorism

et al, 1996). The next step from this sub-division of labour was scientific management, founded by Frederick Winslow Tayl...

Perspectives on Time

Barbour, time is merely an illusion (Anonymous, 2000). In his ruminations on time, Augustine contemplates the subjectivity of tim...

'No Miracles' Argument and Scientific Realism

not in the business of representing aspects of the world, there is no way to argue for a plurality of moral truths, simply from th...

Plant Modification Through Genetics

creation of specific plant types through cross-breading was a standard in agricultural research for decades. The introduction o...

Enlightenment and Environmental Creation by the Scientific Revolution

and inextricably a branch of religion. Beginning with the radical Copernicus, who taught that the earth revolved around the sun, E...

Psychology as Science According to Wilhelm Wundt

capabilities and personality. Wundt and Change It has been argued that the contribution of Willhelm Wundt to the establishment ...

Agnosticism and Thomas Huxley

had not evolved gradually as Darwin asserted, but had been created by God at a specific time in pre-history and the species which ...

Stephen Jay Gould's Bully for Brontosaurus

books, and view the publishing arm of their diversified empire as but one more item for the ultimate balance"(Gould 157). Apparent...

Life and Theories of Sir Isaac Newton

Newtons discoveries interrelated, in fact, with many others of this time period. The first radical departure of science from the ...

Scientific Theories of Thomas Kuhn

break through by inventing a new paradigm are] almost always...either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they chan...

Scientific Philosophies, Realism, and Antirealism

Therefore, realities for these individuals would logically be at a variance. Francis Bacon, considered the father of modern scie...

Western Religion - Trends

faith, new scientific discoveries and theories appear to be offering support for many traditional religious views, particularly in...

Definition of Normalcy

tall should weigh somewhere between 125-140 lbs, but the cultural message is clear: thin is in. Therefore, many who are a normal w...

U.S. and Domestic Violence

only the persons, place, or things the violence is inflicted upon, but also victimizes the witnesses to such occurrences. With ...

Performance of Employees and Motivation

attempting to induce others to accept certain goals and/or standards (Accel-Team.com, 2004). There are important caveats managers...

Scientific American Article 'The Littlest Human'

through remains. This is something that is often associated with islands and the isolation islands offer. This finding was related...

Human Physiology and Prostanoid Receptors

to be not as hydrophobic as they were once thought and that they do not incorporate into or permeate cell membranes (Narumiya, Sug...

Science and the Piltdown Man Hoax

skull ("Piltdown"). The discovery was touted as the missing link and thought to go back to the prehistory of humanity ("Piltdown")...

Autobiographical Recollections and Their Accuracy

In four pages this paper examines scientific findings in an assessment of the accuracy of autobiographical recollections and a con...

Personal Point of View on Stem Cell Transplantation Issues

The controversy surrounding stem cell transplantation is rooted in the fact that stem cells must be harvested from human beings. ...

Sociology's Father Auguste Comte

"a system that was built on an intellectual and moral basis and allowed for science...