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Cloning of Human Beings Should Not Be Allowed for Religious, Scientific, and Moral Reasons

womb, is upon the world. These are issues of science fiction, but as time goes on they become science fact, a situation that has t...

1940s' Scientific and Technological Developments

The discovery in the 1940s that ticks are attracted to a cloth which had been impregnated with the scent of a dog (Miller, 1996), ...

Science, Insanity, and The Island of Dr. Moreau, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Frankenstein

it. If it was possible to create a human being, why not? he never stopped to think about what the consequences were and whether he...

Overview of OPC3

large role in the stabilization of collagen and elastin, which are two basic proteins in the connective tissues that surround most...

Scientific Perspectives of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The information, however, should prove sufficient for further investigation on the part of the student. Tales and Sketches: Scie...

Debates Concerning Embryonic Research

developed fetuses, but are only the stem cells that differentiate into the various structures that eventually do become organized ...

Overview of Leukemia

children (Steen and Mirro 14). This suggests different causes of adult and childhood cancer, something that could in fact be a s...

Perspectives on Time

Barbour, time is merely an illusion (Anonymous, 2000). In his ruminations on time, Augustine contemplates the subjectivity of tim...

Adolescent Suicide and Depression

In six pages scientific research regarding depression and how it is manifested differently among genders and the factors that infl...

'No Miracles' Argument and Scientific Realism

not in the business of representing aspects of the world, there is no way to argue for a plurality of moral truths, simply from th...

Plant Modification Through Genetics

creation of specific plant types through cross-breading was a standard in agricultural research for decades. The introduction o...

Science Achievement and Gender Differences Proposal

National Science Foundation reported that half of the people working in social sciences were women but only 8 percent of engineers...

The Blair Witch Project Film, the Newtonian Revolution, and Phaedo by Plato

In six pages this report examines individual understanding of the world as considered in Plato's Phaedo, in the scientific inquiry...

Psychology as Science According to Wilhelm Wundt

capabilities and personality. Wundt and Change It has been argued that the contribution of Willhelm Wundt to the establishment ...

Agnosticism and Thomas Huxley

had not evolved gradually as Darwin asserted, but had been created by God at a specific time in pre-history and the species which ...

Workings of Science

probability that is usually scarcely less than complete proof (PG). Sometimes things have been demonstrated by the principles and ...

Science, Philosophy, and God's Existence

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

Dennis Bonnette's Origin Of The Human Species

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...

Impact of Isaac Newton and That Apple Tree

the notion of gravity. Although its uncertain if the story is true (Newton was known for observing the fall of apples from his mot...

Laudan, Boyd, and Putnam on Scientific Realism

In four pages scientific realism is examined in the concepts of Laudan, Putnam, and Boyd. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Scientific Realism Argument

In nine pages scientific realism as supported by Forrest's article is assessed. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Leadership and Motivation

or under represented in the discussion of the model. The concept of scientific management is well known; Taylor used scie...

Scientific Research and Quality Sampling Importance

about probability sampling and random sampling. These are important areas. Obviously, if sampling is skewed to reveal particular t...

Peirce and Hume on Skepticism

director of our own narrative, but we can never say for certain how the story will end. Although we make plans, and try to foresee...

Scientific Method of Inquiry

natural phenomena consists of four steps: 1. Observation and description of a phenomenon of group of phenomena. 2. Formulation of...

Time and Philosophy

When he finally gets the ice cream, he is happy. So was this an example of the past, the present and the future? Not necessarily...

Classical Organization Theory and Scientific Management, and the Principles of Standardization, Efficiency, and Rationality

put management in control, designing, using scientifically measured studies these, the most efficient work methods and then organi...

Early Europe, Scientific Theory Development, and Counterfactual History

as social and political ideologies, group interests, and even competing personal and professional interests has greatly impacted o...

Scientific Progress and its Threat in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

during his student days, on sciences fascination: None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of sci...

Smoking Cessation Speech Example

anything to us anymore. However, when placed in a new perspective, such as in the role of a mass murderer, then the statistics tak...