One does not have to read for very long to find some modern intellectual involved in the analysis of some part of Nature come to the "Aha!" ... Modern religious piety salivates at the prospect of converting scientists and will take them any way it can. ... Transferred to philosophical theology, it is impos-sible to derive legitimately from a natural theology any relevancy in conclusions arrived at over and above what can be independently and directly supported by empirical study of the universe. ... "We can never be allowed to mount up from the universe, the effect, to Jupiter, the cause, and ...

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In this paper I show that while the existence of God remains ambiguous throughout the novel, The Road contains both a clear moral code and a view about what makes life meaningful. ... I then make the case that the views of morality and meaning found in The Road imply that morality does not depend upon God for its existence or justification. ... Thus, the man's declaration is that either his son is the word of God, or, for all practical purposes, the universe is a godless one. ... This old man has survived not through divine assistance but rather through random chance; he and all the other...

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And indeed, does a modern understanding require the existence of hell at all?... Let us discuss these various views. ... "9 A second view is that the wicked are annihilated at death. ... This view is held by the Jehovah's Witness.10 A third view that differs slightly is that all are raised for Judgement. ... McGrath sums it up by saying "In a universe of love there can be no heaven which tolerates a chamber of horrors"17 J.I. ...

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I feel that this is best viewed in Hammurabi's laws. ... Islam teaches that there is one God, the creator and sustainer of the universe. ... In Christianity one of the Ten Commandments states that "I am the Lord you God.....you shall have no other gods before me", also identical to Islam God is considered the creator of the universe, and he is also just. ...

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What is the American family? This question was answered by John de Crevecoeur, in "what is the American?" (1782), when he said: "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have four wives ...

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