Marbaniang, Domenic

Excerpt from Modern Theologies of Revelation, Originally “Theology of Revelation” (2007); ISBN 978-1-105-18397-3 (PB, Lulu.com); ISBN 978-1-105-27463-3 (Ebook, Lulu, ITunes, Nook); ASIN B005O80G1G (Amazon.com) A study of the Bible shows that authentic revelation is chiefly verbal. By this is not meant that visions, dreams, theophanies, miracles, and spiritual understanding have not been means of divine communication. What is meant is that revelation comes in an authentic, reliable, and knowable form only through verbal communication. Even in visions, dreams, and supernatural phenomena what ultimately constitutes revelation is verbal testimony. 8.1. General Revelation Vs Revelation as Verbal Testimony Nature cannot be revelatory of God in the same way that a watch is revelatory of a watch maker. Still in the case of the watch, one can have no idea of the specific watch maker, unless first of all he already knows the watchmaker or the watchmaker has inscribed his name on the watch. As fa...

Pre-Reference : Anthropic Principle, Wikipedia The New Oxford American Dictionary defines the Anthropic Principle as "the cosmological principle that theories of the universe are constrained by the necessity to allow human existence. In its ‘weak’ form the principle affirms that a universe in which living observers cannot exist is inherently unobservable. ‘Strong’ forms take this line of reasoning further, seeking to explain features of the universe as being so because they are necessary for human existence." In this note, I would like to just highlight the chief epistemic issues associated with this Principle. Related Topics:  Hegelian Dialectical Idealism (the Phenomenology of the Mind: Evolution of Consciousness); Schopenhauer's philosophy of the Will, Advaitin Philosophy, Madhyamaka (Sunyavada), the Heisenberg Principle and Consciousness, Naturalism, Determinism, Aristotelian Logic, Process Philosophy, Creationism, Cosmological Argument, Teleological Argument, Intelli...

LYRICS Mujhe aapney diya apna pyaar Jab koyi na tha mera yaar Jab chaha kisi ne na mujhe Tu ne chaha tha mujhe Teri roshni aayi mere liye Jab charo or tha andhera Tere pyaar ke kiranon se Dur hatha hei andhera Nahi dar, nahi khaunf Nahi achet, Ashish anek Tera pyaar se mila Mere zindagi ke har ek pal Hei tujh ko hi arpan Mere zindagi ke har ek khwab Tujhi ko hi hei samarpan Teri taakat hi hei mera bal Teri mahima mera pratifal Chahe duniya chorh bhi dey Nahi chorega sath mera Nahi dar, nahi khaunf Nahi achet, Ashish anek Tera pyaar se mila

LYRICS Mujhe aapney diya apna pyaar Jab koyi na tha mera yaar Jab chaha kisi ne na mujhe Tu ne chaha tha mujhe Teri roshni aayi mere liye Jab charo or tha andhera Tere pyaar ke kiranon se Dur hatha hei andhera Nahi dar, nahi khaunf Nahi achet, Ashish anek Tera pyaar se mila Mere zindagi ke har ek pal Hei tujh ko hi arpan Mere zindagi ke har ek khwab Tujhi ko hi hei samarpan Teri taakat hi hei mera bal Teri mahima mera pratifal Chahe duniya chorh bhi dey Nahi chorega sath mera Nahi dar, nahi khaunf Nahi achet, Ashish anek Tera pyaar se mila

Excerpt from The Everlasting Man Sometimes the professor with his bone becomes almost as dangerous as a dog with his bone. And the dog at least does not deduce a theory from it, proving that mankind is going to the dogs-or that it came from them. For instance, I have pointed out the difficulty of keeping a monkey and watching it evolve into a man. Experimental evidence of such an evolution being impossible, the professor is not content to say (as most of us would be ready to say) that such an evolution is likely enough anyhow. He produces his little bone, or little collection of bones, and deduces the most marvelous things from it. He found in Java a piece of a skull, seeming by its contour to be smaller than the human. Somewhere near it he found an upright thigh-bone and in the same scattered fashion some teeth that were not human. If they all form part of one creature, which is doubtful, our conception of the creature would be almost equally doubtful. But the effect on popular scienc...