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The capability of polyribonucleotide chains to form unique, compactly folded structures is considered the basis for diverse non‐genetic functions of RNA, including the function of recognition of various ligands and the catalytic function. Together with well‐known genetic functions of RNA – coding and complementary replication – this has led to the ...
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Suffering is often experienced by those who obey God, while happiness is experienced by those who do not know God. This study aims to re-examine theodicy about disasters and calamities and tries to provide alternative thoughts regarding the relationship ...
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Undoing the Past. Necessitas per accidens e logica temporale nel De divina omnipotentia
Peter Damian’s letter 119 De divina omnipotentia is characterized by two main issues: the dilemma about the God’s capacity to restore virginity to a woman and the question about the possibility of undoing the past.
Roberto Limonta
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The Challenge of Theodicy and the Divine Access to the Universe [PDF]
Any new attempt to cope with the problem of theodicy is forced to reinterpret and remodify the classic set of divine attributes. Classical monotheism, at least in the Christian or Islamic tradition, emphasizes the concept of God as a personal, almighty ...
Schärtl, Thomas
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The traditional doctrine of divine omniscience ascribes to God the fully exercised power to know all truths. but why is God’s excellence with respect to knowing not treated on a par with his excellence with respect to doing, where the latter requires ...
Hunt, David P.
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In this article, the author offers a critical contextual analysis that seeks to answer Giroux’s (2015) call for scholars to map and critically examine the “cultural circuits, points of connection, internalized values, discourses and pedagogies ...
Kyle W. Kusz
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The Contradiction Approach to solving Problems about Omnipotence
Some philosophers have claimed that the concept of omnipotence is implicitly inapplicable to anything. The well-known “stone problem” is an argument to that effect: whether or not a being can create a stone too heavy for him to lift, there is something ...
Michael Wreen
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Descartes, God, eternal truths, Creation Doctrine, modality, indifference, omnipotence, essence, arithmetic, Aquinas, Adrian W. Moore. [PDF]
This paper offers a brief response to Patterson’s paper, ”Descartes on Modality and the Eternal Truths”, which itself is at least in part a response to Moore’s paper, ‘What Descartes ought to have thought about morality”.
Jonathan Head
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Theism in Historical Perspective [PDF]
I will discuss some familiar problems in the philosophy of religion which arise for theistic belief. I will argue that it may be most worthwhile to focus on a particular sort of theistic belief, capital-T ’Theism’, central to which is a particular ...
Chappell, Timothy
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