This month, as the surest route to public embarassment, I decided to write about scientific heroes. Today’s world is full of talk of mentoring. Graduate students are told to find supervisors who will intellectually nourish them, emotionally support them, and teach them networking and grantspersonship. As I tap away, I can almost hear Uncle Syd muttering that the world is going to the dogs. In h...

The use of space teaches people who use it. This is especially true for the Christian church in employing sanctuaries and buildings for worship. James White argues that a reconsideration of our use of space is necessary to accommodate the adage “to move people spiritually we need to move them physically.” He does so by delineating six liturgical spaces and three-to-four liturgical centers that ...

Studies of ancient Egyptian religion have examined texts for evidence of cattle worship, but the picture given by the texts is incomplete. Mortuary patterns, ceremonial buildings, grave goods, ceramics and other remains also contain evidence of cattle worship and underline its importance to early Egypt. The recently discovered cattle tumuli at Nabta Playa in the Western Desert are identified he...

Ancient angels as key to modern society The making of Angels in Late Antiquity: Theology and Aesthetics (ALATA)” combines texts (in Greek, Coptic, Syriac) images (chiefly ancient mosaics) research the origins Christian angels’ figures.

Life if it is based on humans (sense creatures) does not apply to animals and plants a process where collect good deeds before they return Allah swt. or can also be said that this life field the harvest called reward. So, quality of person's faith depends number results / obtained while in world. swt has created various types living creatures earth with clear purpose, namely worship Him, as say...

Two studies assessed the relationship between celebrity worship and (i) addiction (n 1359) and (ii) criminality (n 2158). Overall Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS) scores correlated positively with Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised (EPQ-R) Addiction and Criminality sub-scale scores. In further support of the absorption addiction model of celebrity worship (McCutcheon, Lange, & Houran, 2002...

Ming-Chang Huang, Yu-tin Huang, Jinn-Wen Wu, and Tien-Shen Chung Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems and Department of Physics, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, 32023 Taiwan C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 11790-3840 USA Department of Applied Mathematics, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, 32023 Taiwan (Dated: June 2...

In politics as in history, masters accomplish great things, but often, lowly beings such as servants perform those tasks. At times, they subvert them. In science, servant-beings are frequently described as demons and angels. Who are these effective agents? This essay traces parts of the large historical network of persons and places in which ‘little helpers’ service their master’s will. It look...

Part One addresses the question whether the fact that some persons love something, worship it, or deeply care about it, can endow moral status on that thing. I argue that the answer is ‘‘no.’’ While some cases lend great plausibility to the view that love or worship can endow moral status, there are other cases in which love or worship clearly fails to endow moral status. Furthermore, there is ...