Once the Nazi scientists convinced each other that the results of their racial "investigations" were correct, then both the ability and the need to apply moral, subjective criteria lessened. After all, when one is dealing with sub-humans the ground rules change; no need for compassion, for concern, for human suffering, when the sufferers are not human. Everyone who attempts to understand the bu...

Shepherding ministry is never easy. Paul told Timothy to “suffice with me as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. False doctrine teachers are in the church and Christians face lawless, rebellious, ungodly, sinners, unholy, unclean, murderers, kidnappers, liars, just name few characteristics. was counseled not be rude older men maintain chastity his relationships younger women. The method used qualit...

In moments of consciousness as quantum jumps between quantum histories picture the basic challenge is to explain how psychological time arises: why the contents of at least sensory experiences are concentrated around definite value of geometric time and what is the origin of the arrow of psychological time. It has become gradually clear that TGD cannot reproduce the common sense conception of t...

A perícope de Mateus 18.1-14 tem sido interpretada diferentes formas por muitos teólogos e estudantes da Bíblia. Dentre estes, entendem que Jesus, ao falar acerca dos pequeninos no texto em questão, está se referindo exclusivamente às crianças. No entanto, este entendimento pode apresentar algumas dificuldades problemas teológicos, como exemplo o existência anjos guardiões das crianças, visto J...

In this brief reply to Walls’ challenging critique, I try to do two things: first, clarify the most fundamental point on which I think Walls and I disagree, and second, argue that, as surprising as it may first appear, Walls’ free will theodicy of hell requires that God interfere with human freedom in inappropriate ways. For a number of years now I have considered Jerry Walls to be one of my be...

At first glance, there is nothing unusual about the article by Bell and colleagues [1]. The Introduction notes that ‘there is limited evidence of the effectiveness of maintenance treatment without observed dosing’. One simply assumes that the authors were interested in seeing how unobserved administration of buprenorphine compares with the traditional way of doing things—whether patients will d...

Common sense has that killing someone amounts to causing the death of someone . This makes killing a physical, biological, or, at best, metaphysical issue, and, as a consequence, the ethics of killing can be dealt with independently of the non-ethical issue of who the killer is . However, in this paper, we show that this is not the case . A physical/biological definition of death plus a metaphy...

“Let me get this right, the pilot wants to talk with me in the cockpit?” I asked the flight attendant, as the final passengers boarded the Liberia-bound jet during a refueling stop in west Africa. It was late March 2014, and a small Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak had been reported a few weeks earlier in Guinea. The half-read pile of malaria journal articles on my lap provided the flight cre...

T h i s year marks the 150th anniversary l! of the death of an English physician 6 4 who achieved lasting fame in two entirely unrelated fields. He was the first professional anaesthetist in England, making important contributions to the newborn specialty, and he was also one of the founding fathers of modern epidemiology and public health. John Snow (Figure I) was born in York in 1813; his fat...

STEVEN SHAPIN and SIMON SCHAFFER, Leviathan and the air-pump. Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Simon Schaffer, Princeton University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xiv, 440, illus., £43.00. In his History ofthe Royal Society ofLondon, published in 1667 as an explanation and defence ofmen who spent their time weighing...