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    Origin of Life

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    faster evolution than previously thought (Time‚ 1993‚ p.40). This belief that life evolved ever so quickly‚ induced scientists to attempt to create real life in the lab. The goal was to simulate the earliest organism in existence. Theories for the origin of life has been around since the beginning of civilization. However‚ It was Charles Darwin who first introduced a biologically possible theory that is still intact today. Darwin suggested that life grew in a "warm little pond" of organic chemicals

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    On the Origin of Evil

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    On the Origin of Evil Where does evil come from? This is a question that I find most interesting. In our modern day civilization educated by liberal institutions everybody speaks as if they are certain of what evil is. So what is it? At first glance the thing that sticks out to me when I hear this question is: Asking where evil comes from is like asking where hunger comes from. Where does the desire for procreation‚ for sexual reproduction come from? Is a lion evil? I am sure it could be viewed

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    Origin of Man

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    The Origin of Man is one of the most difficult statements or question that we have face as humans to answer. There are too many variables that goes into understanding the true meaning of the Origin of Man. Some of the variables that would question the Origin of Man would be Religion and Scientific knowledge or researched. Through Religion we are to believe that God “created humankind and all modern living creatures in a single‚ spontaneous week of creation. Through Science and researched we are

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    Origin of the Philippines

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    separated from Asia. The similarity of the natural plants and animals in the mainland of Asia and that of the Philippines may prove that the Philippines were once a part of the mainland of Asia. There are several theories given by scientists as to the origin of the Filipinos. One of these theories explains that the Philippines was once inhabited by the Tabon men who resembled the Java men and who lived about 250‚000 years ago. These people lived in caves and used stones as tools for gathering food. A

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    The Origin of Religion

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    The Origin of Religion Diana Mackey Christianity in a Pluralistic World May 12‚ 2013 There are three major views on the origin of religion; subjective‚ evolutionary‚ and original monotheism. Subjective is defined: existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than the object of thought. Subjective theory explains that religion originates with man. We as humans have psychological needs for an abstract being. We have faith‚ love‚ and hope in this being. Theologians and philosophers

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    deserved. The English believed that the best way to go about this was to colonize the New World. Subsequently‚ many colonies began to develop‚ and of these colonies‚ Massachusetts and Virginia were the most well-known. The early settlements of the Massachusetts and Virginia were both established by similar groups of people at the same time; however‚ their contrasting beginnings as a colony‚ views on religion‚ and means of economic stability created two different politics and economic systems. The settlements

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    The origin of the Philippines The Philippines is a country of Southeast Asia‚ with its 7‚107 islands strewn over the Western Pacific Ocean‚ approximately 13 N of the equator and 122 E of Greenwich. Its collective land area is about 300‚000 sq. km‚ about the size of the state of Arizona. This island archipelago is one of the most megadiverse countries in the world‚ housing over 5% of the entire world’s flora in an area not even 1% of the world’s total. An estimated 10‚000 to 11‚000 species of

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    slavery

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    "Lincoln hoped to slowly end slavery without tearing the nation apart‚ Blight says. "He was a gradualist‚" Blight says. "He was trying to prevent a bloody revolution over it. He couldn’t." He couldn’t because of the pressure exerted by the abolitionists and the slaves themselves‚ other historians say. Blacks did not wait for white people to free them‚ they say. At least 180‚000 blacks fought in the Civil War. And Douglass was one of Lincoln’s harshest critics. He constantly pushed Lincoln to

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    Country of Origin

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    Country of origin define by the country with which a firm’s associated typical it home country. Such as IBM company was associated in the United State and Sony associated in Japan. Consumer favour on the product from develop countries over those less developed countries. The reputation of some country appear creditably of competitor in product which the country is well known. Such as Red wine at France and Video recorder was producer by the South Korea. A positive or negative effect of country of

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    Origin of the Earth

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    THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE 1. Steady State Theory – based on the perfect cosmological principle that the universe looks the same from any location at anytime. This theory holds that the universe is unchanging‚ it has no beginning and no end. 2. Big Bang Theory – presupposes that the vast universe grew out of something where all matter and energy were compressed to infinite density and heated to trillions of degrees (a beginning which was an immensely small particle of high-density

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