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Islamic Cosmology and Sufism, 2005.
A look at the relationship between Islamic cosmology and Sufism.
1,849 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper looks at the central concept of Islamic cosmology and then goes on to explain Sufism and why it should be viewed as a spiritual dimension of Islam. Furthermore, based on the research cited, the paper concludes that the emergence of Sufism is a natural development within the religion and a necessary revelation of Islamic faith.
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"Nasr states categorically that Sufism is a part of the Islamic tradition that extends the spiritual and the ' esoteric' dimensions of the faith. "The truth and reality of the inner teachings of Islam became crystallized mostly in Sufism. Sufism therefore embodies more than any other facet of Islam the various aspects of Islamic spirituality". (Nasr, 1987. p 3) As such, Islamic Sufism also extends and adds to the understanding of the essential cosmological elements that characterize Islam. Sufism is related to these cosmological aspects as an extension and a deepening of the spirituality of Islam."
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Mary Douglas?s "Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology", 2004.
Book report and discussion of the core thesis of Douglas's major work, "Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology".
969 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper critiques and analyzes Mary Douglas's major work, "Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology", and looks at the main thesis of the book, which revolves around the idea that rules of physical body turn into natural symbols for decoding the norms of the society.
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"Douglas believes natural symbols play an important role in determining the nature of various social and religious rituals and practices. How we perceive a norm is connected with how we view bodily functions and vice versa. In this book, the author gives us an explanation of how our perception of human bodily functions is an extension of different social experiences."
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Muhammad: Cosmology and Rites of Passage Models, 2004.
An examination of how the life story of Muhammad fits into the cosmological and rites-of-passage models.
1,466 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 48.95
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This paper analyzes the life story of Muhammad according to the rites-of-passage model of Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner, the relationship between the life story of Muhammad, and some of the key principles of Islamic cosmology and the ways in which Muhammad?s life story might be linked to the cosmological traditions of the religions out of which Islam emerged.
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"The rites-of-passage model, explained by Victor Turner, ?indicate and constitute transitions between states? of ?relatively fixed or stable conditions.? This model contains three phases, pre-liminal, liminal, and post-liminal characterized by certain transitional traits: during the pre-liminal phase the individual or group ?comprises symbolic behavior signifying detachment from an earlier fixed point in the social structure or a set of cultural conditions;? during the liminal phase ?the state of the ritual subject is ambiguous; he passes through a realm that has few or none of the attributes of the past or coming state;? and during the post-liminal ?the passage is consummated.? "
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Myth Making: Siddhartha, Cosmology and September 11, 2002.
A discussion on the absence of meaning in the modern world in after the events of September 11, 2001 through an analysis of three different texts in the crucible of personal experience.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 53.95
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A reflection upon the absence of meaning in the modern world in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001. It will be argued, through an analysis of three different texts in the crucible of personal experience, that the key element in all three is the human capacity to create myth. In this analysis, the central myths of human experience will be seen to revolve around the act of sacrifice, and the most profound sacrifice is one made for love.
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Dante and Cosmology, 2003.
Discusses his explanations of the world and human behavior.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 47.95
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Discusses Dante's use of astronomy and astrology to explain the cosmos, the themes in his epic poem "The Divine Comedy", which includes "Inferno," "Purgatorio," "Paradisio" and the view of Earth as the center of he universe.
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"Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was the author of several important works that Harold Bloom (p. 7) considers to be essential in the Western Canon of literature. A man interested in many different topics, ranging from love and ..."
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Cosmology and The Big Bang Theory, 1995.
Looks at the evolution of theories concerning the origins and nature of the universe.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 7 sources, $ 39.95
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"Cosmology and the Big Bang Theory
Overview
Since the beginning of human history, there have been questions about where the "stuff" that composes our universe comes from. In cosmology, the study of the origin and evolution of the universe, theories are put forward to explain the known facts and assumptions about the stars and everything we know and sense.
There are "steady state" theories that propose that everything in the universe is pretty much the way it always has been. The steady state theory posits that the universe is contained within a "closed" system, and so the assumption could be made that the universe extends for a vast though finite distance in all directions. However, in 1823 a German cosmologist named Wilhelm Olbers asked the question, "Why is the sky dark at night?" Olbers ..."
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Cosmology, 2002.
Examining different theories about the age of the universe and how it all started.
1,687 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper explores some theories about the beginning of the universe and focuses on the Big Bang Theory. It explains that depending on whose research you follow, the universe could be anywhere from 9.5 billion to a few trillion years old. This paper introduces and discusses the Big Bang Theory, explaining how, according to the theory, the universe came in being. It then discusses the Redshift critique of the theory.
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"In 1929, Edwin Hubble decided that because the light coming from most galaxies was redshifted, the universe must be expanding after exploding from an infinitesimal volume of superhot, superdense concentration of matter and energy. The explosion is called the big bang which propelled matter in all directions and at all speeds. According to the big bang theory, the farther away an object is from us, the more redshifted its light. Also, a greater redshift means the object is moving away faster than objects with less redshift. If the universe is not expanding, this cannot be true and the redshift must be due to other causes. An astronomer can tell how old the universe is by the rate of expansion. If the redshift is due to something other than expansion, nothing can be said about the universe's age. The old paradigm of a steady state universe suggests that the universe is a closed system, with matter and energy in a constant flux."
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Descartes' Cosmological Argument, 2002.
This paper discusses the cosmological argument of Rene Descartes.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 89.95
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The essay reveals that the argument primarily suggests the innate existence of ideas. Descartes employs his famous "dream argument" to argue that the idea of one's own existence proves the difference between objective and subjective reality.
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The Kalam Cosmological Argument, 2006.
An analysis of the Kalam cosmological argument of William Lane Craig.
926 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper discusses how William Lane Craig has created a simplified tree-system in which he breaks the universe down into having a beginning that was caused by a personal being. The paper then looks at how Craig provides four arguments as evidence to backup his notion and examines how the first two arguments are philosophical and are intertwined with the concept of infinity. Next, the paper examines how Craig's last two arguments are scientific dealing with the expansion of the universe and thermodynamic evidence that the universe used to be infinitely small.
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"Morrison provides an objective voice to Craig's evidence. Morrison knows that infinity can exist in reality. A hypothetical library with an infinite amount of books is ridiculous in reality, but there are other things, which truly are infinite (p.96). There is the matter of Euclid's Maximum, it says nothing about the number of elements, and Craig makes the false assumption that since it does not work for infinity, then infinity cannot exist (p.97). Morrison argues that things such as space, numbers, of division of sub-regions are infinite. Our space is ever expanding, and be it a closed or open system, it will still be infinite. We know that there exist an infinite sub-numbers between any two numbers (eg. Numbers 1 to 2). If a person where to walk to a destination, at one point he would get to a half-way point, then from that point he would have to get to another half-way point, and another, and so on. "
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Cosmologies, 1996.
Compares world views, mythologies, origins of universe & human life among Chinese yin-yang school, Amer.-Indians & Mayans.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 10 sources, $ 55.95
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"Different cultures produce their own particular way of structuring the world they see around them. They use religion and ritual to explain, to gain control, and to express their own sense of connectedness to their environment. Pre-scientific societies develop their own mythologies to explain the origin of the universe and of human life. A comparison of three such societies shows how varied these ideas can be, with reference to the Maya, the ancient Chinese, and the Indians of the American southwest.
The New Text School in China was dominant throughout most of the Former Han dynasty and was given its name only later in apposition to the Old Text school, which rose to prominence in the time of Christ and gained ascendance through the Later Han dynasty. By "old" text the name means that the work was written..."
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Mankind's Relationship with the Universe, 2005.
An analysis of the relevance of physics and cosmology to modern mankind.
1,540 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper examines the implications, relevance, and significance that the current, best theories in physics and cosmology have for the understanding of our lives and our place in the world. In particular, it seeks to determine what our best theories in physics and cosmology, including relativity theory, quantum theory, and big bang cosmology, imply about the nature of the physical world and about the nature of our selves. An overview of these best theories is followed by an analysis of their implications, relevance, and significance today, followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion.
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"According to Bergmann (2004), the general theory of relativity was developed in response to the need to extend the new space and time concepts of the special theory of relativity from the domain of electric and magnetic phenomena to all of physics and, particularly, to the theory of gravitation. Because space and time relations are the foundation of all physical phenomena, researchers recognized the inherent constraints in applying mutually contradictory concepts of space and time to explain different types of interactions, particularly in view of the fact that the same particles may interact with each other in several different ways-electromagnetically, gravitationally, and through the so-called nuclear forces (Bergmann 2004)."
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God and the Theory of Evolution, 2007.
A look at the defense of the cosmological argument for the existence of God against the theory of evolution
1,444 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper attempts to defend the cosmological argument for the existence of God against the theory of evolution by presenting arguments in favor of the cosmological argument, refuting some of the major objections against it and elaborating the weaknesses of the evolutionary theory.
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The Cosmological Argument
Criticisms of the Cosmological Argument & their Refutation
The Theory of Evolution
Does the Theory of Evolution Negate the Cosmological Argument?
Conclusion
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"Man has sought to unravel the mysteries about the origins of the universe, life, and mankind itself since times immemorial. Philosophers, theologians, and scientists have thought hard and deep through the ages and put forwarded divergent theories about the mystery. These have eventually boiled down to two major and contrary ideas, i.e., the "evolutionary" theory that life was created by pure chance and has over time evolved into ever-more complex forms of life through a process of natural selection, and the theist argument that an outside supreme force (God) was responsible for the start of the universe and life. The "Cosmological Argument" for the existence of God and the "theory of evolution" best represent the two divergent schools of thought on this important argument."
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Philosophies of Egypt, Mesopotamia & Greece, 1993.
Scientific, practical & intellectual knowledge & innovations of ancient pre-Socratic civilizations. Looks at their views of astronomy, astrology, mythology and cosmology.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 8 sources, $ 79.95
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" The ancient Greeks of the early classical age were not remarkable among ancient civilizations for their engineering skills or their practical knowledge of the world around them. For example, Greek temples such as the Parthenon have had an enormous influence upon subsequent Western architecture, both directly (e.g., the public monuments of Washington, D.C.) and indirectly (in shaping Western ideas of architecture). Yet they were quite limited in their exploitation of the potentialities of stone. The arch was almost completely unused by the Greeks, in sharp contrast to the extensive use the Romans made of it.
Yet the early-classical Greeks, and in particular the so-called pre-Socratic philosophers, beginning with Thales, are rightly regarded as the forebears of Western science, and more broadly of the Western view of the world as operating by.."
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Concept of Time in Genesis, 1997.
Analyzes early chapters' uses & meanings of Hebrew word [yom], conservative & liberal views, astronomy, cosmology and Creation story.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 12 sources, $ 79.95
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"The purpose of this paper is to study the use of the Hebrew word yom in the early chapters of Genesis, to see whether it must be interpreted as meaning a 24-hour day or whether it may mean a period of time of unspecified duration. The context here, of course, is that conservative Christians generally believe that they are obligated by faith to interpret the word in the former sense, whereas moderate and liberal Christians have suggested the latter interpretation as a way of reconciling the creation stories in Genesis with a modern scientific understanding of how the universe, the Earth, life, animals, and human beings came into existence.
The word yom was and is still the ordinary Hebrew word for a day (Harrison 48). For example, Yom Kippur, the ?day of atonement,? is the holiest day in the Jewish year; it is..."
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Non-Western Religions, 2001.
Emphasis on prehistoric & tribal religions; myth, ritual, Buddhist animism, shamanism, Hindu cosmology.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 11 sources, $ 55.95
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"This research examines non-Western religions. The research will set forth the general nature of the human religious experience, with particular emphasis on prehistoric and tribal religions and then discuss this experience at the basic levels of myth, ritual, symbolism, animism, shamanism, rites of initiation, with a view toward identifying both how primitive religious consciousness may prefigure later Western religious structures and how the non-Western aspects of those structures might persist irrespective of Western divergences therefrom.
"According to the sociologist Max Weber, the difference between primitive and historic-era religious traditions is the difference between magical and rational explanations of human experience of the universe (Gerth and Mills 51). But even in the modern period, attachments to nonrational explanations for or sense...."
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