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Quality management systems form an integral part of modern corporations. Acknowledging current socio-economic and environmental challenges, quality standards ought to be dynamic and flexible so as to cater for different markets and requirements. This book portrays a collection of international papers addressing current research and practice within the areas of engineering and technology, health and education. Amidst striving for ""zero defects"", ""cost-effectiveness"" and ""tight financial budgets"", quality management systems ought to embrace the creator of them all: humans; as the ancient Greek Sophist Protagoras said, ""Of all money, Man is the measure"" «

Evolution. --- Philosophy --- Creation --- Emergence (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Quality Management --- Social Sciences and Humanities --- Management and Economics --- Business --- Quality Control

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This book is a discourse on creation hypothesis in light of new scientific findings made in the 20th and 21st centuries, incorporating sacred texts of different religions. It also addresses the universal phenomena of information and mathematics within this context. The discourse makes an important contribution to the ongoing conversation about creationism, intelligent design, and the problems of science vs. religion. .

Religion. --- Religion and sociology. --- Religion --- Philosophy. --- Religious Studies. --- Religion and Society. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Philosophy of Technology. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Creation. --- Creationism. --- Religion and science. --- Creation science --- Scientific creationism --- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy --- Bible and evolution --- Creation --- Evolution (Biology) --- Intelligent design (Teleology) --- Biblical cosmogony --- Cosmogony --- Natural theology --- Teleology --- Beginning --- Biblical cosmology --- Creation windows --- Creationism --- Evolution --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science --- Science and religion --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Religion—Philosophy.

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Eric Covington examines the way in which Ephesians coherently holds together cosmological, Christological, ecclesiological, and ethical elements within its vision of the early Christian way of life. He begins by investigating the extent to which the categories of functional teleology featured within ethical reflection in both Greco-Roman and early Jewish traditions. Next, he analyzes the letter's Auslegungsgeschichte, focusing on Thomas Aquinas' medieval commentary, to demonstrate how Ephesians has previously been interpreted through the lens of teleology. Finally, he turns to an historical-exegetical examination of Ephesians to demonstrate the way in which the letter uses the categories and concepts of functional teleology. He concludes that Ephesians identifies the appropriate way of life in light of an individual and ecclesial telos within God's ultimus finis for all of creation. -- ‡c From publisher's description.

Teleology --- 227.1*4 --- 227.1*4 Brief van Paulus aan de Efesiërs --- Brief van Paulus aan de Efesiërs --- Design in natural phenomena, Study of --- Final cause --- Philosophy --- Causation --- Evolution --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Bible. --- Ebesosŏ (Book of the New Testament) --- Epheserbrief (Book of the New Testament) --- Ephesians (Book of the New Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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According to Genesis, humans are made in God's image but animals are not. Hannah M. Strømmen challenges this view by critiquing the boundary between humans and animals in the Bible through the work of philosopher Jacques Derrida. Building on Derrida's The Animal That Therefore I Am, Strømmen brings to light significant moments where the lines between the divine, human, and animal are ambiguous in a rich range of biblical texts, from Noah as the first carnivorous man in Genesis 9 to Revelation's beasts.

Animals in the Bible. --- Theological anthropology --- Creationism --- Creation science --- Scientific creationism --- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy --- Bible and evolution --- Creation --- Evolution (Biology) --- Intelligent design (Teleology) --- Biblical teaching. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Derrida, Jacques. --- Derrida, Jacques --- Derrida, J. --- Derida, Žak --- Derrida, Jackes --- Derrida, Zhak --- Deridah, Z'aḳ --- Deridā, Jāka --- Dirīdā, Jāk --- Деррида, Жак --- דרידה, ז'אק --- Theological anthropology - Biblical teaching. --- Creationism - Biblical teaching.

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This book explores the role of causal constraints in science, shifting our attention from causal relations between individual events--the focus of most philosophical treatments of causation-to a broad family of concepts and principles generating constraints on possible change. Yemima Ben-Menahem looks at determinism, locality, stability, symmetry principles, conservation laws, and the principle of least action-causal constraints that serve to distinguish events and processes that our best scientific theories mandate or allow from those they rule out.Ben-Menahem's approach reveals that causation is just as relevant to explaining why certain events fail to occur as it is to explaining events that do occur. She investigates the conceptual differences between, and interrelations of, members of the causal family, thereby clarifying problems at the heart of the philosophy of science. Ben-Menahem argues that the distinction between determinism and stability is pertinent to the philosophy of history and the foundations of statistical mechanics, and that the interplay of determinism and locality is crucial for understanding quantum mechanics. Providing historical perspective, she traces the causal constraints of contemporary science to traditional intuitions about causation, and demonstrates how the teleological appearance of some constraints is explained away in current scientific theories such as quantum mechanics.Causation in Science represents a bold challenge to both causal eliminativism and causal reductionism-the notions that causation has no place in science and that higher-level causal claims are reducible to the causal claims of fundamental physics.

Causation. --- Science --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy. --- Causalità. --- Bertrand Russell. --- Curie's principle. --- Donald Davidson. --- Erwin Schrödinger. --- God. --- Heisenberg uncertainty relations. --- I. Pitowsky. --- Leonhard Euler. --- Pauli exclusion principle. --- Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis. --- S. Popescu. --- causal constraints. --- causal eliminativism. --- causal family. --- causal reductionism. --- causal relations. --- causality. --- causation. --- causes. --- change. --- conservation laws. --- determinism. --- directionality. --- dynamics. --- emergence. --- entanglement. --- fate. --- gauge freedom. --- gauge theories. --- higher-level causation. --- higher-level eliminativism. --- indeterminism. --- instability. --- lawlessness. --- least action principle. --- locality. --- necessity. --- nonlocality. --- philosophy of mind. --- physical theories. --- physics. --- probability. --- quantum mechanics. --- reasons. --- reduction. --- science. --- stability. --- statistical mechanics. --- sufficient reason principle. --- symmetries. --- teleological thinking. --- teleology. --- variation principles.