The literature about informal investors, persons who individually invest in new and expanding entrepreneurial endeavors, has grown considerably over the past decade. Most of the results, however, are based on methodologies which do not include a randomly selected sample of respondents. Proper sampling procedures are necessary for the literature to grow beyond the case-dependent, descriptive wor...

holy quran introduces angels as managers of entire world in amonotheistic manner. based on holy quran they have differentactions and are catalyst of god. in holy bible, some of theideas related to role of angels are similar to holy quran; but inmany cases, it shows different or even contradictorydescription. so it can not demonstrate a right quide to real roleof angels. in this study, researche...

I am a psychologist and not a theologian, so I do not know what the word "soul" means. What matters to me is a creature's capacity to feel, to suffer and to be conscious; its sentiency, not its soul, is the bedrock of my concern. Let us proclaim this creed of sentientism: that anything, human or nonhuman, terrestrial or extraterrestrial, natural or man-made, that can suffer should be included w...

1 The Dilemma of the Theistic Platonist Theists generally hold that God is the creator of all there is distinct from himself. Traditionally, the scope of God's creative activity has extended across two disjoint realms: the physical, whose chief exemplars are ordinary middle-size objects, and the mental or spiritual, encompassing such things as angels and souls. Now, many theists are also platon...