an ordinary flour-mill behind which the snake lay hidden from view. No effort was made by the parents to kill the animal, which was allowed to run put in their presence and enter into the rubbish heaps about the house; such deadly snakes being held sacred, and worshipped by the ignorant and superstitious Hindus, and not unfrequently cherished with milk and bread put in the holes in which they a...

1. The BHA is the principal organisation representing the interests of the large and growing population of ethically concerned but non-religious people living in the UK. It exists to support and represent people who seek to live good and responsible lives without religious or superstitious beliefs. It is committed to human rights and democracy, and has a long history of active engagement in wor...

This study seeks to disentangle claims of institutional and organizational learning theories and to shed light on the impact of Knightian (environmental) uncertainty in discovery opportunities. This article suggests, and fi nds empirical support for, the concept that emerging professional service industries retain high levels of causal ambiguity. High uncertainty interferes with institutional t...

This paper presents a justification for Christian theodicy. It starts by critiquing William H. Gass’s depiction of Christianity as superstitious, ignorant, and evil. shows that his view is based on caricature (that is, God quasi-gnostic Demiurge) the understanding evil totally ignores misses contributions (what I call) Classical View theodicy within intellectual tradition from Origen to Karl Ba...

Abstract In recent years, the issue of determinants human gender identity has been lively discussed. such discussions, there are numerous supporters belief that a person’s does not depend directly on given individual’s biological endowment with sex , but is result various socio-cultural circumstances in which person lives. This view began to gain popularity scientific community late 1960s and e...