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Understanding the Times
Unit 2 Philsophy
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Bible Studies
11th Grade
02/19/2013

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4 discoveries that support that God exists:
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1. 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
2. Impossibility of spontaneous generation of life from non-life
3. Genetic information theory
4 Anthropic Principle
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Secular Humanism - cosmology
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1. External matter spontaneously generated life and the human mind through the evolutionary process.
2. Anthropic principle
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3 important people of Christianity
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1. W.J. Niedhardt
2. C.S. Lewis
3. Sir John Eccies
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Marxism-Leninism ontology
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1. ultimate substance and cause is ever-changing dialectical mater
2. matter exists and is eternal and is the ultimate substance or reality
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Islam - people
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Blaise Pascal - "Any man can do what Muhammad has done; for he performed no miracles...No man can do what Christ has done."
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Christianity - people
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C.S. Lewis - "In science we have been reading the notes of the poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself."
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Secular Humanism
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Carl Sagan - the cosmos is all that is or ever was or all that will be
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Christianity - mind/body
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Dualism - mind is immaterial, body is material
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Islam - mind/body
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Dualism - mind is immaterial, body is material
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Marxism-Leninism - people
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Fredrick Engels - The world is not to be comprehended as a complex of ready-made things, but as a complex of revolutionary processes.
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Christianity - ontology
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God is the supreme source of all being and reality.
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Christianity - cosmology
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Intelligent Design
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Postmodernism - people
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Jacques Derrida - French philosopher known for deconstruction (the reader's interpretation is more important than the text)
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Postmodernism - people
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Jean Francois Lyotard - metanarrative is incredulous
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Cosmic Humanism - people
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Joseph Campbell - What;s the meaning of hte universe? It's just there. That's it. And your own meaning is that you're there.
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Islam - cosmology
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Kalam Cosmological Argument:
1. Did the universe have a beginning or has it always existed?
2. Was the beginning caused or uncaused?
3. Is the agent of cause personal or impersonal?
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Marxism-Leninism - people
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Karl Marx - As long as we actually observe and think, we cannot possibly get away from materialism.
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Marxism-Leninism - mind/body
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Mental functions are functions of highly developed matter, namely, the brain
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Cosmic Humanism - mind/body
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Monism - all is one, but the ultimate reality is spiritual, not material
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Secular Humanism - mind/body
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Monoism - the body and mind are both material substances
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Islam - people
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Muhammad - Even though Muslims believe in miracles, the fact that Muhammad was a prophet who did no miracles does not bother them
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Cosmic Humanism - people
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Neal Donald Walsh - author of fifteen books on spirituality in everyday life
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Postmodernism - people
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Richard Rorty - truth is whatever his community of scholars allow him to get away with
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Cosmic Humanism - people
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Shakti Gawain - "When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for external authority, validation and approval from others, we give our personal power away."
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Christianity - people
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Sir John Eccies - "Having a mind means one is conscious and that consciousness is a mental event not a material one."
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Marxism-Leninism people
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V.I Lenin - Matter is primary nature. Sensation, thought, consciousness are the highest products of matter organized in a certain way
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Christianity - people
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W.J. Niedhardt - "Faith correctly viewed is that illumination by which true rationality begins."
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Secular Humanism
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acknowledging the Big Bang metaphor suggests a creative point, which is outside the purview of SH cosmology
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empiricism
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all knowledge originates from experience
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Cosmic Humanism - ontology
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all things are honored and precious manifestations of God
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Islam
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assume that the "counselor" or "comforter" in John 14:16 is Muhammad and that we have confused the words parakletos and pariclytos
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reason
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comprehend, infer, think in orderly ways
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idealism
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concern for fact and reality; reject impractical and visionary
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Islam
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greatly influenced by Greek philosophers
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Secular Humanism - ontology
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matter is all there is
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Secular Humanism - mind/body
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mind arose from the evoutionary process - computers are the next step in the chain
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Christianity
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most rational of all worldviews
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Islam - ontology
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necessary existence in intellect is the basis for Necessary Existent.
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Marxism-Leninism - mind/body
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our mind reflects matter in a way that makes our perception accurate
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Postmodernism - ontology
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reality is constructed by language; no matter how a writer constructs a sentence. It can never tell us about the real world, but only about the world as it is understood by the reader.
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rationalism
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reason as the basis for truth
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Christianity
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requires more faith than any other philosphy
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Christianity
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scientific method - limited, but a valuable ally
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ontology
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study of the existence of being - what we mean when we say something exists
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mind/body
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study of the relationship of the mind to the physical body
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cosmology
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study of the structure, origin, and design of the universe
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Marxism-Leninism cosmology
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the universe is the only thing that exists. It always has and always will.
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Secular Humanism - mind/body
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there is no life after death
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