In the book, "The Lie"," Ken Ham gives an example of this, "Hitler believed in struggle as a Darwinian principle of human life that forced every people to try to dominate all others; without struggle they would rot and perish Even in his own defeat in April 1945, Hitler expressed his faith in the survival of the stronger and declared the Slavic peoples to have proven themselves the stronger. " Sir Arthur Keith, the well-known evolutionist, explains how Hitler was only being consistent in what he did to the Jews; he was applying the principles of Darwinian evolution. ... And the evening and t...

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The poem shows the uniqueness of life and the power that is possess, "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees". ... Personally I think this is an entirely unfair statement, that doesn't give Thomas's work any justice at all. ...

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I am of course prejudiced in favour of Gaia and have filled my life for the past twenty-five years with the thought that Earth may be alive: not as the ancients saw her "a sentient Goddess with a purpose and foresight "but alive like a tree. A tree that quietly exists, never moving except to sway in the wind, yet endlessly conversing with the sunlight and the soil. ... But all done so imperceptibly, that to me the old oak tree on the green is the same as it was when I was a child." ... These witches give praises to the mother earth and try to keep it balanced. ...

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It is our mind that makes us different, makes us human, or our spirit or whatever name one gives to that power of comprehension we have. ... We for instance see a tree rolling down a hill or we see that same trunk floating on water and a monkey sees the same. ... We see a wheel in the rolling tree and a boat in the floating trunk. Apes do not see a wheel in a rolling tree; otherwise they already had invented the wheel long time ago or would invent tools today and escape from the zoo. ...

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Semitic religions include Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, where Judaism is said to be "the trunk of a tree," while Christianity and Islam are "two huge branches" (Lovat, et al., 2000). ... As with Judaism, life is seen as a gift from God and therefore life is expected to be lived constantly giving thanks and praise to Allah. ... DEATH In the moments before death, the dying Muslim attempts to utter the Shahada, while companions provide reassurance by reciting versus from the Qur"an, for example, "it is God who gives life, and who takes it away, and it is to him we shall all return" (Nicholas...

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The term euthanasia is not new to the twentieth century. Even in ancient societies, terminally ill people requested to have their lives ended; though the meaning of euthanasia for them differed from its meaning today. The English word euthanasia is taken from the Greek eu thanatos "good or easy death." However today it is given a different meaning, because of the social and moral issues it touches. In the present day the term euthanasia is associated with the act of mercifully (although some might argue this point) ending the life of a hopelessly suffering patient with his or her consent. ...

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