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    often times, innocent people are effected. Again, in response to McCloskey’s claims, it can be said that this is simply not true. Evans and Manis make an agreeable statement when they stated, “What is true, perhaps, is that a good being always eliminates evil as far as it can without the loss of a greater good or the allowance of a worse evil.” (Evans & Manis, 2009, p. 160). An omnipotent being does have a limitation, and that is that even it cannot do what not possible logically; theist have…

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    that do not know how they came into existence is an indication that some being must have been there in order to cause their existence or else, these creatures would not be in existence since the trail could not be infinite(Evans and Manis 73). According to Evans and Manis final paragraph on page 77, McCloskey could be right that the cosmological argument, “does not entitle us to postulate an all-powerful, all-perfect, uncaused cause,” (McCloskey 51). If a person believes that someone created…

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    McCloskey. In the first argument, the “mere existence of the world constitutes no reason for believing in such a being” (McCloskey, 1968). In addition, many individuals question, where did “all things” come from and why. Authors Evans & Manis (2009) believe that things that are contingent, requires an answer from the existence (p. 69). However, there is no real reason why individuals exist nor is there an answer for why everything else in the world to exist. Evans & Manus (2009) argue that…

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    Since the fall of mankind from the Garden of Eden people have questioned the existence of God, and today that is still relevant and a highly debated topic. There are two types of people in this world; people who believe in God’s existence and people who do not believe there is an almighty God. The people who do not believe in god justify their beliefs by asking if God does exist why is there evil still in the world? Many of these questions will never be answered until we are faced to face with…

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    He says that in order for this to be true there had to be some genuine examples for the design and purpose, but there are no examples so there is no intelligent designer. One of the ways that I believe that one of the examples from Evans and Manis’ reading is the what Aquinas believes is the “beneficial order.” This shows us that there are a lot of living things in the world that are made of many human features, such as animals. They all have lungs, stomachs, brains, eyes, ears, mouths, etc…

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    cosmological argument, the teleological argument also known as the argument from design, and the problem of evil. He also tries to show that atheism is a more reasonable and comfortable belief than that of Christianity. In our reading from the Evans and Manis book, Philosophy of Religion:…

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    against the cosmological argument maintaining the existence of the cosmos , the creation itself,implies the existence of a creator . Central to this argument is the following preposition of cosmological argument and intelligent design from Evans and Manis : “If anything now exists, something must be eternal.” Otherwise, something no eternal must have emerged from nothing. If something exist right now, it must have come from something else, ome from nothing , or always existed or always…

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    times that God eliminates evil, but I feel that it is true that God eliminate evil. The evil that God permits is justified because allowing that evil make possible the achievement of a greater God or the prevention of a worse evil. (Evans and Manis, pp. 160) From what I’ve already learned about free will, is that most theist incorporate their views of the free will theodicy by making a souls making theodicy. We as humans make bad choices when it comes to their freedom. This ends in…

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    It 340 Network Management

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    IT 340 – Network Management Assignment No. 1 Rami Mansour Aljuhani 130183364 Question No. 1 Compare the telephone network and the Internet. What are the similarities? What are the differences? The telephone network and the Internet are both networks, they both send signals from end to end. The telephone network is circuit switched and the Internet is a mixture of several technologies. Both uses equipment’s to send and receive. Telephone uses telephone switches on the Central Office, while the…

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    Woden God Odin

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    teeth and for the trees he used the hair and the giants skull made the sky which was held by North,South,East and West then the sun and moon was made which Sol and Mani which were named after the sun and moon drove golden chariots to carry the sun and moon around. the story goes one night while riding around in their chariots Sol and Mani stopped to talk to two children they saw carrying some pales of water named Hiuki and Bil who was made by their mean and cruel father to carry water all night…

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