Modern science cannot be given sole responsibility for the diminution of intelligence and the rise of atheism and agnosticism. Nor can modern science be blamed for the death of metaphysics and the privatization and cultural eclipse of religion. ... This would not only deflate any supposed exclusivistic epistemic superiority, but enable science to be science and not a barely disguised, a priori metaphysical ideology such as when Steven Weinberg says in the First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of a Universe that human life is a "farcical outcome of a chain of accidents" ... in "an ...

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The readings of Darnton, Dobbs and Jacob illuminate how social, political and religious elements were crucial to the development and spread of modern science. ... For example, Jacobs notes that the Stoic religion emphasized an "eternal cosmic cycle of birth, expansion, conflagration, contraction, and regeneration.""3 This cycle of the cosmos was later applied to the behavior of the universe and life. ... Jacob recalls how the "Aristotelian idea of a finite universe came into conflict with the Christian doctrine of divine omnipotence. ... In this instance the scientific theory of a finite u...

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This will be achieved by discussing eastern religions and western religions, then finally comparing and contrasting the main ideologies of these religions of this modern era. ... But the modern day Buddhism does have characteristics of being a very psychological religion. ... Confucianism is a far east religion of China which has its own views and beliefs. ... They believe in "Tien", which would be analogous with heaven in which an order is present which includes the universe and the whole cosmos. ... At the end of one's life, after living the commandme...

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In modern times we have become increasingly obsessed with the artifacts and material objects that surround us then the people that surround us. ... Human existence is not singular but multidimensional; the universe does not revolve around the self and we are only an infinitesimal part of something greater than each of us. ... So in this our modern time we have focused more on having than being and this growing focus on having, which has created a sort of neurosis called "the terror of the reversible". ... In this modern world there has become a growing struggle between love and fastidiousness,...

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The Aten was defined as a universal, omnipresent spirit that not only had created the universe, but also ruled it. ... These new religious views also appeared to help influence a major break in the traditional art of the time. ... This is evident to modern-day historians through documents known as the Armana Letters; documents written on clay tablets in the cuneiform script of Mesopotamia (1). ... Indeed, he has been hailed by modern historians as the father of monotheism; a man whose beliefs would come to draw parallels with, and even influence entire religious movements during later times. ...

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