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When asked their religious identification, more people answer 'none' in the Pacific Northwest than in any other region of the United States. But this does not mean that the region's religious institutions are without power or that Northwesterners who do attend no place of worship are without spiritual...

This has to be not big material, and the idea is very young for me, but it seems so philosophically profound in my opinion that I just can’t wait more before its publication. And why should I invent religious fables now? For one thing I have invented a pair of religions under my traditional pseudonym...

The first edition of Engines of Discovery celebrated in words, images and anecdotes the accelerators and their constructors that culminated in the discovery of the Higgs boson. But even before the Higgs was discovered, before the champagne corks popped and while the television producers brushed up...

One of the things that this author has noticed concerning other commentators on the book of Revelation is that typically many brilliant authors who normally would write wonderful information on other parts of the Bible would throw the simple guidelines on how to interpret the Bible out the window...

“Freethought is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of evidence, logic, and reason, rather than authority, tradition, or other dogmas.” These 126 short essays were all published on the ExChristian.net web site between November 2008 and...

Beloved, the time has come to put an end to the Devil tricks and strategies. The Devil has destroyed so many lives and in addition, leads them to hellfire. The purpose of this book is to expose the Devil tricks and strategies so that you don't fall into His temptations any more.  Beloveth, have you...

The book relates the dynamics of the relationships between the healthy and the sick, in this case Anjonius, and follows the progression of his illness until the moment of his death. Sickness especially a sick child,an only child and only grandchild has devastating effects of thew family. They blame...

Sir John Fortescue, widely known for his multi-volume history of the British Army was invited to give the Ford lecture in 1911, he choose for his subject the British political figures who guided Britain through the Napoleonic Period. The French revolutionary wars and the Napoleonic wars spanned more...

AN ORGANIZED PANIC sets sister against brother, born secular humanist against later-in-life evangelical Christian. The sibling squabble underscores a serious struggle, certainly, but this is another tale told in the darkly humorous Friedmann voice--and set in the New Orleans only a native would know....

Western societies generally recognize both a legal and a moral right to privacy. However, at the present time there is no settled opin­ ion in the United States regarding how these rights should relate to medical information. On the one hand, virtually everyone agrees that one' s medical records...

In this book various scholars explore the material in science and science education and its role in scientific practice, such as those practices that are key to the curriculum focuses of science education programs in a number of countries. As a construct, culture can be understood* as...

* Book : Symposium * Biography * Bibliography Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any commentator has ever dreamed of; or, as Goethe said of one of his own writings, more than the author himself knew. For in philosophy...

* Book : Gorgias * Biography * Bibliography Persons of the dialogue: Callicles; Socrates; Chaerephon; Gorgias; Polus Scene: The house of Callicles. Callicles. The wise man, as the proverb says, is late for a fray, but not for a feast. Socrates. And are we late for a feast? Callicles...

In his essay on 'Broad on Induction and Probability' (first published in 1959, reprinted in this volume), Professor G. H. von Wright writes: "If Broad's writings on induction have remained less known than some of his other contributions to philosophy . . . , one reason for this is that Broad...