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2 hours ago · A clockwork universe without free will is a horrible thought, nevertheless entertained by the atheistic materialistic worldview. As the classic materialistic worldview leaves no room for free will, or independent thought, everybody would just be a puppet on the strings of the natural laws of cause and effect.
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2 hours ago · Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (/ ˈ s ɒr ə n ˈ k ɪər k ə ɡ ɑːr d / SORR-ən KEER-kə-gard, US also /-ɡ ɔːr /-gor, Danish: [ˈsɶːɐn ˈɔˀˌpyˀ ˈkʰiɐ̯kəˌkɒˀ] ⓘ; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.
1 day ago · Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to form a black hole. The boundary of no escape is called the event horizon. A black hole has a great effect on the fate and circumstances of an object crossing it, but it has no locally detectable features according to general relativity.
2 hours ago · One of the most prominent and impactful examples of the harmony between science and religion is the life and work of Georges Lemaître (1894–1966), a Roman Catholic priest who is also credited as the father of the Big Bang theory. Lemaître proposed the idea of an expanding universe, which he derived from Einstein’s theory of relativity.
1 day ago · The theory of self-perception (Bem) and the theory of cognitive dissonance (Festinger) make identical predictions, but only the theory of cognitive dissonance predicts the presence of unpleasant arousal, of psychological distress, which were verified in laboratory experiments.
1 day ago · Another theory that had some support at that time was the inheritance of acquired characteristics: the belief that individuals inherit traits strengthened by their parents. This theory (commonly associated with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck) is now known to be wrong—the experiences of individuals do not affect the genes they pass to their children.
2 hours ago · African art includes prehistoric and ancient art, the Islamic art of West Africa, the Christian art of East Africa, and the traditional artifacts of these and other regions. Many African sculptures were historically made of wood and other natural materials that have not survived from earlier than a few centuries ago, although rare older pottery ...
