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    WhyGod? Why?” This all too common phrase can be heard in every language around the world. Throughout time people have always wondered how a supposedly kind‚ loving‚ and just God could allow such suffering and evil to happen to his children. How could he create some of his children poor‚ while others rich? Why are some beautiful‚ while others ugly? Some healthy‚ and others sick? Some find love‚ and others die alone? So many times‚ has God’s children looked to the skies and cried out‚ “Why

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    because things do not exist without a cause. For example‚ people and animals do not exist without reproduction. People must have a first cause to be created and exist. “The cosmological argument for God’s existence goes like this: The world could not exist on its own so there must have been a first cause that brought it into being. This first cause is God. Or put another way‚ the universe could not just exist on its own—someone or something must have made it. This cause of the universe is God” (Theological

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    Why I believe people should have a good education I believe people should have a good education because without a good education you can’t have a good job‚ or a job you have ever wanted. You need the basic skills to ever have a job. Like if you can’t read‚ you won’t get any job. If you can’t do math you won’t really have any job. The person who I will later talk about later found out that math is really important. Over the radio I heard that there was this 55 year old that couldn’t read

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    As we move into the twenty- first century an increasing number of people are relying on new forms of technology. A possible consequence of this is that traditional media such as books and newspapers are not just less popular but are considered by some to be outdated. Personally‚ I disagree with this point of view. The principal reason why some people take this view is fairly clear in the case of newspapers. It is generally much easier and quicker to discover what is happening in the world from the

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    Why do people behave the way that they do? I believe that a great deal of behavior is learned. When growing up we pay close attention to the things we are taught by our parents which helps to shape the way that we behave. There is also the environment to consider‚ which may encourage people to behave a certain way. If you grew up in a neighborhood that is dangerous you would be more careful of your surroundings. We also learn from our peers‚ if there a need for acceptance then we would behave the

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    Why good people do bad things? “Doing bad is easy but doing well is not”. Yes‚ that saying is the most concrete explanation why good people do bad things. Good people do bad things with good intentions. We‚ humans‚ are all sinful by nature. No one of us can behave perfectly and sinless. But we have the capacity to avoid temptations and to distinguish what’s right from wrong. Good intentions cause most of the world’s great evils. There are many things that happened in the past that can construe

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    Why do people behave the way they do? No one can really tell you why they can only make strong guesses. These guesses are the definition of the person whom you are speaking or making a guess about. Thinking deeply into the one of the most dangerous minds we find Charles Manson. Charles Manson was a little boy who lived in a world of torture. For a little boy torture doesn’t only mean being hit or beaten‚ torture means not having his mother. This made Manson begin to think about pain. To him being

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    Can One Be Moral and Not Believe In God? Aleshia Wisch PHI208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning Prof. Michael Kellam October 2‚ 2013 Can One Be Moral and Not Believe In God? Is it possible for an individual to live morally without believing in God? For someone who believes in God this may be a difficult question to answer. Whereas‚ someone who does not believe in God might immediately say that having morals has nothing to do with religion. So‚ to answer this question‚ we will look

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    Why do people laugh? Someone makes a strange sound or behaves in a peculiar manner so everyone around expels air out of their lungs at a rapid rate. Why? In an article for NBC News‚ Robert Provine‚ professor of neurobiology & psychology at the University of Maryland‚ states from an evolutionary perspective‚ “We believe laughter evolved from the panting behavior of our ancient primate ancestors (1999).” He further explains that people and apes laugh under the same circumstances‚ such as while playing

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    The reason why people buy into conspiracy theories is a result of people having a sense of powerlessness and uncertainty‚ they can be caused by rational thinking‚ and people spend too much time on the internet and find exaggerated information that can possibly be false. Large numbers of disastrous events have been caused by conspiracy theories. For example‚ the Red Scare was caused by people thinking that Communists were out to get them. Conspiracy theories are everywhere and can cause usually rational

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