The world's population has grown more in the last 50 years than it had done in the previous 4 million years[1]. This quantum leap in the human population has put severe strains on the finite resources and the fragile environment of our planet. What is more, the present rate of the galloping...

Life, despite all of its intricacies, can make human beings long for the simplest things. There are pleasures in life that seem so simple yet people spend their entire lives searching for these pleasures. Perhaps the greatest pleasure of all is finding out who one really is. The discovery of where ...

In The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, Ray Kurzweil foretells a future where intelligent machines outnumber carbon-based life forms by the year 2099. While some of his claims may seem fantastic, Kruzwiel's credentials are impeccable, and many of his pr...

A clone is an organism, or group of organisms derived from another organism by an asexual (nonsexual) reproductive process. A group of cells stemming from a single cell is also called a clone. Usually the members of a clone are identical in their inherited characteristics. An example of clone is ide...

In class we have just completed Milton Mayeroff book On Caring. Mayeroff discusses many of life's philosophies, and the meaning and importance of caring as well as being cared for. He deals with peoples basic morals towards caring and being cared for in many situations. Caring is "fe...

Freedom of speech, expression and practice give a broadened sense of human capabilities. It has been observed that science evolved from the experimentations that scientist pursued for the better learning and understanding of related phenomenon, the same logic is applicable over the social system. In...

ARISTOTLE'S MEANING OF LIFE From reading Aristotle's philosophies and point of view of life, he gave me the impression that the laws of nature are the boundaries in which humans' lives and the meaning of life evolves around this boundary. Aristotle strongly believed that humans behaved and lived ...

Religion: An Arbitrary Experience The image of God appears in many texts, but more importantly appears inside everyone. Ever person on the planet has a certain outlook on God and although many people have similar views everyone still disagrees because of minuscule details. This combined with ever...

Genetic Engineering Anti-technologists and political extremists misinform, and over exaggerate statements that genetic engineering is not part of the natural order of things. The moral question of genetic engineering can be answered by studying human evolution and the idea of survival of the fi...

Abortion is a serious topic that has been debated over for much time. Some people look to an abortion as a way out of a mistake, while others are in desperate need for the procedure. What exactly is an abortion? An abortion is any spontaneous expulsion of an embryo or fetus before it is suffi...

Paradox Scientists and the rest of the human race is finally beginning to realize that it has a tendency to try to destroy itself. Scientists are discovering that many of it's creations can and have caused the deaths of many individuals. Studies have shown that many mechanisms and improved mater...

The Justification of a Life-Centered Perspective Santa Cruz is a city known for its beach access and huge redwoods. These redwoods have lately come into an environmental debate regarding their co-existence with the lime kiln, and the subsequent new growth dominance of the redwoods over the kil...

In order to properly critique the quote "Reason is the slave of the passions", by renowned philosopher David Hume, we must first examine the definitions of what we perceive as reason, slaves, and passions, and why we perceive them as such. Each term takes on an automatic, assumed quality by most ...

ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY On the time scale of the history of the Earth an individual human lifetime is a mere blink of an eye. We're born, we live, and we die. What is the point of living? If we're all going to be dead in the end anyway, what difference does it make what we do with our lives? Does the f...

Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is a great story of politics and animals. This story was written with the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalin's rule in mind. There are ideas of justice; equality and freedom played through out the book. Through this book, the reader can feel the ...

Bioethics and Genetic Engineering By the year 2025, the world's population will be approximately 7.4 billion people and 2 million clones. What seems like something from a bad science fiction movie could, indeed, be a reality based on how quickly technology is growing in the area of...

We have seen comic material in the movies and on television. The entertainment industry usually shows it in a humorous situation such as Danny Devito and Arnold Schwannager as genetically engineered twins while Michael Keaton was duplicated to make his life easier. Cloning is only achieved after int...

We have seen comic material in the movies and on television. The entertainment industry usually shows it in a humorous situation such as Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzennager as genetically engineered twins while Michael Keaton was duplicated to make his life easier. Cloning is only achieved a...

Should Human Cloning be Legalized? The ability to reproduce human beings without sexual reproduction is no longer only an idea to be explored in sci-fi movies and books. After over forty years of research and development, human cloning is quickly becoming a reality. Cloning captured the public...

The Effects of Population Growths on the Environment With world population skyrocketing, where is man-kind headed? The current world population is over six billion with the United States population alone numbering over 264 million. Studies on population growths project that by the year 2050 A.D....

The Age of Spiritual Machines presents a history of computers, looking at how past trends in computing have led to today's personal machines. Author Ray Kurzweil then goes beyond history to look towards the future. Most audiences are familiar with the notion that computers will one day thi...

William Faulkner (1897-1962) is known in the world of literature as the "historian of the negative" and narrator of the dark. In other words, Faulkner was obsessed with the dark side of human mind and in his in-depth psychological exploration of such areas; he would produce stories that were oft...

Life is universal. However, each individual being, living or non-living, determines life or living separately. Amongst humankind there are three basic states of being/living, individualism, aloneness, and loneliness. Under these states human beings struggle through life questioning its meaning and ...

INTRODUCTION Human population in the past 48 years has more than doubled its seize, from 2.5 billion in 1950 to 5.9 billion in 1998 . A few month ago the Secrtary of the United Nation declared a baby as the No. 6 billion citezen of the earth. As you may have noticed, human population has reached a...

INTRODUCTION Human population in the past 48 years has more than doubled its seize, from 2.5 billion in 1950 to 5.9 billion in 1998 . A few month ago the Secrtary of the United Nation declared a baby as the No. 6 billion citezen of the earth. As you may have noticed, human population has reached a...