The ongoing creation-evolution controversy in North America thrives on the widespread special creationist beliefs of a significant portion of the public. Creation science supports a literal interpretation of the Judeo-Christian Bible, an earth that is no more than 10.000 years old and created ex nihilo in six days by a monotheistic God, with no new kinds arising since the period of creation, an...

Density functional theory (DFT) has been used in many fields of the physical sciences, but none so successfully as in the solid state. From its origins in condensed matter physics, it has expanded into materials science, high-pressure physics and mineralogy, solid-state chemistry and more, powering entire computational subdisciplines. Modern DFT simulation codes can calculate a vast range of st...

Purpose – Knowledge management deals with the production, application, and distribution of knowledge within and between organizations. Such intellectual resources do not appear ex nihilo, but are always constituted through practices and undertakings in an everyday work life setting. This paper seeks to examine how two managerial tools, the balanced scorecard and an e-mail system, are used to re...

Businesses and professions must stay in accord with social ethics, or risk losing their autonomy.A major social ethical issue that has emerged in the past four decades is the treatment of animals in various areas of human use. Society's moral concern has outgrown the traditional ethic of animal cruelty that began in biblical times and is encoded in the laws of all civilized societies. There are...

THERE are no signs that the debate over the chronological data of Genesis 1 is abating. Among those who hold biblical views of the inspiration of the Scriptures certain interpretations of that chronology have, indeed, long been traditional. These may disagree as to the duration of the "days" of Genesis 1 but they have in common the opinion that the order of narration in that chapter coincides w...

Les fictions qui mettent en scène des conspirations sont parfois amenées à développer une réflexion sur les pouvoirs du récit et ce distingue, éthiquement épistémiquement, « théories » associées aux complots qu’elles représentent. Cette peut se fonder exacerbation fictive pouvoir récit, auquel conférées propriétés performatives voire démiurgiques. Notre visée est dès lors de confronter (pseudo)...

Panentheism and classical theism. Comments on the basis of Jacek Wojtysiak’s criticism Józef Życiński’s position The article was inspired by tenth anniversary death Archbishop Życiński containing polemic with his panentheism published Wojtysiak. Wojtysiak claims that essence theism is thesis about existential selfsufficiency God resulting asymmetry causal relationship world, which consists in ...

Düşünce tarihinin olduğu kadar felsefe en çok tartışılan konularının başında Tanrı, evren/âlem ve Tanrı-evren ilişkisi gelmektedir. Bu bağlamda farklı Tanrı tasavvurları yanında, evrenin ortaya çıkışana dair birbirinden değişik açıklamalar yapılmıştır. açıklamalarda dönemin bilim anlayışı inançları da rol oynamıştır. Bazı filozoflar tarafından evren her ne kendi başına var olan bir gerçeklik ol...

Our researches on adaptive systems are inspired by their ability of building by themselves a representation of their surrounding world. Using cooperation as a local criterion of self-organization, we study in a network of neuro-agents the evolution of the system and in the same way, the emergence of a functioning coherent with the environmental feed-back. In this paper we expose the abilities o...

In this paper some basic aspects of the theory of graded consequence are reconsidered, based on many results that appeared since the inception of graded consequences in 1986. Relationships of the notion of graded consequence with the notions of consequence in many-valued and fuzzy logics are discussed. Following this, a detailed study is carried out on the necessary conditions that follow from ...