The essay argues that due to scientific evidence pointing towards the fact that the planet is plunging towards its inevitable end, humanity's focus should not be on how to stop or save the planet anymore, but on how to deal with its impending death as well as facing whatever problems the present offers. ... So how does one come to terms with the inevitable? ... " In the epoch of the Anthropocene, the question of individual mortality - "What does my life mean in the face of death?... "How do we make meaningful choices in the shadow of our inevitable end?" (Scranton 4) A...

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We do know that science does raise questions that it cannot itself answer. ... Some theologians believe the Bible provides us with scientific as well as religious understanding. ... How do we approach the people who believe that the Bible is inerrant? I think we can surely state that some passages of the Bible are to be understood in a metaphorical way and it's not precisely an astronomy book (like St. Augustine said: "The Bible tells how to go to heaven, not how heaven goes-) but that doesn't allow scientists, who, for example, promote evolutionary naturalism, say that evolution is ...

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Slowly, with the added insight from the text, my own definition of religion has begun to take shape. ... It is based on beliefs and how people react to them. ... The rites of passage are the most frequent experiences involving state line questions. ... In the Christian religion, questions arise about the beginning of life and how we got to Earth. ... We also show a separation of church and state and how each American is aware and affected by religion. ...

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From this passage of scripture found in Genesis you can see the problem that God is having. ... According to this passage, you can see the Bible clearly states the flood covered the whole earth. ... Many questions arise when one thinks of the story of the flood. ... With the discovery of a new landmass across a vast expanse of water came new questions. How did the animals get there? ...

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The ethical question lies heavily with Emily's choices. ... In an interview Faulker gives details about the ethical questions facing Emily. ... A critic analyzed the narrative from the author's stance to show the decline of the South and how it is an example of passing time. ... The reader must decide how they feel about Emily's choice of good or evil. They must also come to terms with how the passage of time is affecting Emily. ...

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Religion was a way to make sense of the array of questions that arose as to what would happen after everything that was known ceased, in other words, death. ... Greek tradition was similar to Egyptian, with royalty believing they were more than man and using their power to oppress many lower class people as slaves. ... The Koran has similar passages referring to the removal or killing of all those who are not of the religious word. ... The immensity found in the concepts behind religion and the creation/ meaning of the world have proved to be far too grand for humanity, as a whole, to deal wi...

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A question that every philosopher of time faces is whether or not time flows or is stationary. ... Stationary time would mean that the passage of time is an illusion. ... The other idea regarding the passage (or human advance through it) of time is that time is linear. ... Hence it is so with time." ... Some humans bear time with indifference, and others with difficulty. ...

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Although it may attempt to explain how the earth got here. ... The questions science has been raising deals with morality and ethics. ... Science deals with many ethical and moral questions concerning the new procedures and uses of modern technology. ... This feeling may be based on how one is brought up. ... Scientist must face these questions when they are dealing with animal testing and environmental issues. ...

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The answer to how it works is that the human brain works both as an analog and a digital computer. ... That is how far scientists have come in understanding human issues in the sense in which physics and biology understand their fields, and how far they are from preventing the catastrophe toward which the world seems to be inexorably moving (Technology Of Behavior, Ch.1). ... The questions which scientists are liable to answer are, was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools? ... This is a fundamental passage. ... This also reveals how fee...

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How can one impose paternalistic laws upon personal choices that affect no one save those who make them? ... How can anyone, though, really say that what these people did was wrong; according to what flimsy, abstract concept can one say that the ingestion of dangerous substances, in accordance with the personal determinations allowed by natural liberty, is immoral? ... The benefits from selling drugs would disappear with the extremely lower cost. ... There is a question we must ask ourselves: do our drug laws exist because we want to protect others, or because we want to protect the widespread...

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How can one impose paternalistic laws upon personal choices that affect no one save those who make them? ... How can anyone, though, really say that what these people did was wrong; according to what flimsy, abstract concept can one say that the ingestion of dangerous substances, in accordance with the personal determinations allowed by natural liberty, is immoral? ... The benefits from selling drugs would disappear with the extremely lower cost. ... There is a question we must ask ourselves: do our drug laws exist because we want to protect others, or because we want to protect the widespread...

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They change with the nature of the economy and technology, as well as with fashion. ... President Clinton took independent action pending the passage of legislation to ban any efforts to clone humans with federally funded research, and also asked privately funded scientists to abide by a voluntary moratorium for at least 90 days (Kenen). ... One of the large questions is whether clones would be treated as fully human or as a means to someone else's end. ... Also involved in that case is how the child will be treated. ... This raises a host of questions. ...

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The aim in this paper is to focus on the concept of "the eternal" and how it relates to the human being. ... How can a human be both eternal and temporal if they are contradictions to each other? Kierkegaard answers this question by introducing the concept of "the moment" of decision. ... (BE 33) No matter how much I would love to soar in the air like a bird, the very fact that I have a human body that did not come equipped with wings limits me. ... One example of how we could give practical meaning to imagination is to imagine oneself flying like a bird. ...

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Cloning for a better humanity is then normally associated with positive eugenics. ... With the rise of industrialism and later high technology, brainpower became more valuable. ... Even more, one must consider how the spare clone will be treated. ... These questions should be answered before worldwide part cloning is begun (Kluger et al. 1997). ... There is little agreement as to how much of the success of great thinkers is attributable to genetics and how much to environment, the era when they live, and factors included in their individual raising. ...

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While the Western World was transforming into a "civilized- society, there were still ancient tribes that continued on with their social roles and customs. A widely debated norm that has questioned our morals is cannibalism or anthropophagy. ... Many accounts of horrific human cannibalism have been reported all around the world throughout time; there are even some passages in the bible that tell cases of anthropophagy. ... The widespread investigation of where and how anthropophagy began may lie in the French caves of some Neanderthals who inhabited them 120,000 years ago. ... However, the n...

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