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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nature and Attributes of God
		God cannot be classified or defined, as contingent beings are classified and defined; for there is no aspect of being in which He is perfectly similar to the finite, and consequently no genus in which He can be included.
		Divine immensity means on the one hand that God is necessarily present everywhere in space as the immanent cause and sustainer of creatures, and on the other hand that He transcends the limitations of actual and possible space, and cannot be circumscribed or measured or divided by any spatial relations.
		God first destines a man to glory antecedently to any foreseen merits, and consequently upon this decrees to give the efficacious grace by which it is obtained.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06612a.htm (5880 words)

	EDGE: SPECULATIONS ON THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE By Kevin Kelly
		Indeed all possible Xs of almost any sort can be summoned and examined as a way to study X. None of this combinatorial exploration was even thinkable before robotics and computers; now both of these technologies permit this brute force style of science.
		But as science plunges into the outer limits of scale – at the largest and smallest ends – and confronts the weirdness of the fundamental principles of matter/energy/information such as that inherent in quantum effects, it may not be able to ignore the role of observer.
		Existence seems to be a paradox of self-causality, and any science exploring the origins of existence will eventually have to embrace the subjective, without become irrational.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/kelly06/kelly06_index.html (2714 words)

	Western Concepts of God [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		God created the universe according to eternal patterns in his mind and it is an expression of his thought, however incomplete an expression the cosmos may be.
		Arguments in favor include: it makes God more transcendent, it simplifies foreknowledge, it proposes the same divine relationship to time as to space--God is outside it; furthermore it allows for the creation of time along with matter.
		God is immutable in a weaker and less problematic sense if it is required only that he does not change in his character and purpose.
	www.iep.utm.edu /g/god-west.htm (8846 words)

	Melanie Phillips’s Articles
		Ranged against him was just about everyone else, all of whom thought that every form of relationship should be afforded equal status.
		There is all the difference in the world between intentional acts to murder civilians and strategic acts of self-defence against such attacks, the regrettable consequence of which is that civilians may be killed.
		By definition, there wonât be any grandparents to help out; and their grown-up offspring, who may be preoccupied by their own children, are likely to be resentful if called upon to help shoulder a burden that their parents have consciously inflicted upon themselves.
	www.melaniephillips.com /articles (9900 words)

	Anne's Anti-Quackery & Science Blog
		Advocates of ID claim without any evidence that a designer has created life, but evolution is the only explanation, which is consistent with the evidence.
		A federal judge, saying "intelligent design" is "an interesting theological argument, but … not science," ruled Tuesday that a school board violated the Constitution by compelling biology teachers to present the concept as an alternative to evolution.
		He does not mention any names of the scientists who have given up and any reasonable person would consider his claim to be nonsense.
	amr2you.blogspot.com (4224 words)

	Messiah Truth: A Jewish Response to Missionary Groups
		One of the most significant differences between Judaism and Christianity (or Messianic Judaism) is that the latter rejects the laws that God gave to Moses to teach to the children of Israel.
		Christianity is based on the unique belief that Jesus was God's Son, born of a virgin, sacrificed for the Salvation of man. In reality, as sacrificed virgin-born Savior Son of God, Jesus was not unique.
		The celebration of Christmas on December 25 was originally the pagan birthday of Mithras, the sun god, whose day of the week is still known as "Sunday." The halo of light which is usually shown surrounding the face of Jesus and Christian saints, is another concept taken from the sun god.
	www.messiahtruth.com /response.html (3947 words)

	Amazing Science
		A nice argument but there is a counter argument which says that there were Jaina nuns before the time of Buddha and Panini's reference could equally well be to them.
		After describing the above metallic ores or dhatus of specific metals, the Arthasastra writes: In that case vaikrntaka metal must be iron itself which used to be produced by the South Indians starting from the magnetite ore. It is not certain whether vaikrntaka metal was nickel or magnetite based iron.
		In any case, the study of Ganit i.e mathematics was given considerable importance in the Vedic period.
	www.hinduism.co.za /amazing.htm (14227 words)

	The Anthropic Preprint Archive
		This argument has something in common with controversial forms of reasoning in other areas, including: game theoretic problems with imperfect recall, the methodology of cosmology, the epistemology of indexical belief, and the debate over so-called fine-tuning arguments for the design hypothesis.
		The first part of this paper is devoted to broadening the scope of the argument: even if computers cannot sustain consciousness (as many dualists and materialists believe), there may still be a strong likelihood that we are living simulated lives.
		I argue that the root cause of the flaw in the argument for 1/3 is an erroneous assimilation with a repeated experiment.
	www.anthropic-principle.com /preprints.html (4229 words)

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