Cosmic Creation Research Articles

The Functional Analysis of Gender Equality in the Islamic Law Perspective

<p><em>The causative factors of the gender equality problem include misunderstanding social roles between men and women as a result of an incomplete understanding of Islamic law. This misunderstanding of gender equality results in unequal conceptions placing the positions of men and women in society.This article aims to the primary data sources in this article are the Qur'an text which outlines the gender equality issues in the Islamic law perspective. This article is a qualitative study with a normative juridical approach by describing and analyzing the concept of gender in the Qur'an and fiqh. The results of this study explain that Islam teaches equality between humans, both men and women. At least there are five principles of gender equality in Islam, men and women are both servants of Allah Swt, men and women are both caliphs of Allah, men and women both accept the primordial covenant, men (Adam) and women (Hawa) are both actively involved in the events of the cosmic creation, and men and women have the same potential for achievement. The Qur'an emphasizes the equal status of men and women in terms of fundamental rights as their existence as human and divine beings.</em></p>

Cosmology and Anankê in the Timaeus and Our Knowledge of the Forms

Abstract At Tm. 47e, Timaeus steps back from his discussion of what came about through noûs and turns toward an account of what came about through anankê. Broadie, 2012, Nature and Divinity in Plato’s Timaeus, sketches out two routes for the interpretation of this ‘new beginning.’ The ‘metaphysical’ approach uses perceptibles qua imitations of intelligibles in order to glimpse the intelligibles (just as we look at our reflection in a mirror in order to view ourselves). The ‘cosmological’ reading assumes we use the perceptible part of the cosmos in order to come to know the entire cosmos. Broadie openly favors the cosmological reading for understanding the Timeaus as a whole. However, she confines its utility to the Timaeus and does not recommend it for other dialogues. I use Broadie’s ‘cosmological reading’ to better understand what Plato distinguishes as anankê in his second beginning. This sets the stage for my argument that Broadie’s cosmological reading is a promising means for understanding the metaphysics and epistemology of the Forms. By making some comparisons to Sophist (251c–256a), I show that a refined understanding of anankê in the second beginning of the Timaeus clarifies what Plato thinks is involved in coming to know a Form. I argue that a close look at what was available to the Demiurge for cosmic creation by means of noûs yields three distinct ways in which his construction of the cosmos was limited by anankê. Clarifying these three ways in which anankê operates shows that the Demiurge’s manipulation of the foundational elements yields a perceptible world that brings out some potential relationships among Forms while suppressing others. In particular, the Demiurge’s geometricization of the elements leads him to make compromises concerning how Forms can combine in the Receptacle. These choices produce nomological relationships among the Forms with respect to where they can overlap in the Receptacle. This produces the law-like and reliable, but unnecessary, behavior of the perceptible world. I argue that our understanding of these limitations and their translation into where the Receptacle can partake in more than one Form simultaneously, figures importantly in the estimating the potential for human knowledge of the Forms. I question the use of ‘necessity’ as a translation for ‘anankê’ in the Timaeus.

Divine Love as the Reason for Creation in Islam—An Exploration of Nursi’s Epistles of Light

This paper aims to answer the question “why did God create the world” by examining Bediuzzaman Said Nursi’s magnum opus, the The Epistles of Light (Risale-i Nur), to demonstrate that, from a Nursian perspective, divine love is the raison d’etre for the creation of the world. The first section will investigate the notion of divine love as reflected in the wider Muslim scholarly literature. This will be followed by a discussion on the theology of divine names, with special attention to Nursi’s perspective, illustrating the critical role that this concept plays in Nursian theology particularly as it relates to cosmic creation. The third section will explore the metaphysics of love, the important implications of God’s love in the creation of the world, and its role as the driving force for the dynamism and activities within the structure of the universe. The Qur’anic presentation of love, maḥabba, as well as the significance of the reciprocal nature of love between God and humankind will be explored next. The final section will shed light on the synergy between divine love and the Qur’anic notion of ibtilā, trial and tribulation, to demonstrate its instrumentality in man’s spiritual journey.

Космический союз: новая концепция и технология создания космического человечества

Космический союз: новая концепция и технология создания космического человечества

Paul Tillich, Zhuangzi, and the Creational Role of Nonbeing

The role of nonbeing in the thought of Paul Tillich and the Daoist thinker Zhuangzi is analyzed here. The age-old question "Why is there something and not nothing?" is inverted in order to reveal the hidden role of nonbeing in cosmic creation. What we will discover is that nonbeing does not threaten the existence of being but re-grounds it such that being and nonbeing become harmonized, rendering moot any attempt to think the question of being without nonbeing.

Paul Tillich, Zhuangzi, and the Creational Role of non-Being

This paper analyzes the role of non-being in the thought of Paul Tillich and the Daoist thinker Zhuangzi. It inverts the age-old question “Why is there something and not nothing?” in order to reveal the hidden role of non-being in cosmic creation. What we will discover is that non-being does not threaten the existence of being but re-grounds it such that being and non-being become harmonized, rendering moot any attempt to think the question of being without non-being.

Aesthetic Naturalism and the «Ways of Art»: linking John Dewey and Samuel Alexander

John Dewey’s pragmatist aesthetic theory, sketched in Experience and Nature and completed in Art as Experience, is a key achievement of the American philosophical tradition. It expanded and applied Dewey’s analysis of experience, a rich continuation of insights from Peirce and James, into a comprehensive philosophy of art. It is filled with insights from and allusions to a wide range of sources, particularly from those originating in the work of Albert Barnes, whose writings and art collection informed Dewey’s discussion of aesthetics on many levels. We know from his correspondence that in 1930 he had come into possession of some aesthetic writings of Samuel Alexander, author of Space, Time, and Deity. These writings, Art and the Material and Artistic Creation and Cosmic Creation, show remarkable parallels to the core arguments and concepts of Art as Experience. This paper explores the remarkable links, both historical and conceptual, between their two versions of a naturalist aesthetics.

Constraints on the birth of the universe and origin of cosmic dark flow

We summarize three recent efforts to constrain the first few moments of cosmic creation before and during the epoch of inflation. We consider two means to explain a slight dip in the power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background for multipoles in the range of [Formula: see text] from both the Planck and WMAP data. We show that such a dip could be the result of resonant creation of a massive particle that couples to the inflaton field. For best-fit models, the epoch of resonant particle creation reenters the horizon at wave numbers of [Formula: see text]. The amplitude and location of these features correspond to the creation of a number of degenerate fermion species of mass [Formula: see text] during inflation where [Formula: see text] is the coupling constant between the inflaton field and the created fermion species. Alternatively, one can explain the existence of such a dip as due to a jump in the inflation generating potential. We show that such a jump can also resolve the excessively large dark flow predicted from the M-theory landscape. Finally, we summarize our efforts to quantify constraints on the cosmic dark flow from a new analysis of the Type Ia supernova distance-redshift relation.

Ideas and Researches on Physical Concepts in India

The ideas on physical concepts in India have changed through the centuries initiated first by guru-śisya paramparā (teacher- student relationship), and later extended further based on arieties of quests & experiments. The Vedic & Upanisadic schools (c.6500 BC - 500 BC) first expressed anguish asto how the universe was created by Gods, later on giving importance to nature, natural order and the cosmic creation. The Buddhist, Jain, Sāmkhya & Nyāyavaiśesika schools (c.501 BC - 1000 AD) gave central focus to Nature (prakrti), in place of Gods, as a limitless entity which is self-existent. The Sāmkhya recognized five elements in nature: ksiti (earth), āpa (water), tejas (fire), vāyu (air) and ākāśa (space)both at the atomic (paramāsu) and molecular (anu) level with gunas [sattva, rajas, tamas] as attributes existing in equilibrium. Emphasis on duality concept (purusa and prakrti, śiva and śakti, hara and pārvati, mercury and sulfur) by the Tantrik and Alchemical traditions was held responsible for equilibrium state.The metaphysical explanation of how the sthula-bhūta paramānus like solid, liquid,, gases, heat & light, ether etc are constituted based on tanmātrās (physical energies represented by sound, touch, colour, taste and smell) together with likeness, cause and effect relationship of the combination of the atoms is also explained. The Greek and Islamic thoughts during the period (c.1001-1800) accepted also similar atomic concepts of matter which are no better than those of the Indians. The European knowledge in physical science in the Colonial phase in India (1801-1900) opened up after great initial reluctance, and the knowledge of great stalwarts like, Copernicus (on heliocentric theory), Kepler (elliptical path of planets & planetary laws), Huygens (polarization of light), Newton (motion of body in Cartesian and Polar co-ordinates, periodic motion, law of universal gravitation, sound and its propagation, light), Galileo (telescopic observation of heavenly bodies), Oersted, Faraday & Maxwell (magnetic properties of materials, electricity, charge), Kirchhoff & Planck (radiation), Mendeleyev (periodic table) and others, infiltrated through the local initiatives influencing Indian minds. These helped to establish a Golden phase of science in India (1901-1960) with J C Bose, C V Raman, Meghnad Saha, Satyendranath Bose, S K Mitra, H J Bhabha, S Chandrasekhar and others extending the knowledge in diversified field of physical science. The work was of great order, some of which brought great international fame in global perspectives. The phase (1961–2000) was indeed a period of consolidation in India which led continued emphasis on cosmic ray research, atmospheric studies, search for sub-atomic elementary particles in the formation of building blocks of the universe, classification of forces and of elementary particles imparting importance to Model of Expanding universe with radiation against the Steady state of Big-Bang Model. The observer and observed have however created many a dilemma in present ideas and thoughts in establishing an order between the physical and biological world.

Seats of Power and Cycles of Creation: Continuities and Changes in Iconography and Political Organization at Dzibilchaltún, Uxmal, Chichén Itzá and Mayapán

Este estudio examina continuidades y cambios en la organización política de cuatro centros mayas de Yucatán Dzibilichaltún, Uxmal, Chichén Itzá y Mayapán, y analiza las maneras en que símbolos antiguos de creación cósmica y formas arquitectónicas tradicionales (por ejemplo una pirámide radial con iconografía del árbol cósmico) fueron empleados en Dzibilichaltún; cómo una organización cuartipartita y la iconografía de la creación fueron modificadas en el Cuadrángulo de las Monjas en Uxmal para legitimar los soberanos de un estado del periodo Clásico Terminal, y cómo pirámides radiales, tronos en forma de jaguar y otra iconografía relacionada con la creación fue reorganizada para proveer soporte ideológico para nuevos gobiernos conciliatorios de forma multepal en las ciudades de Chichén Itzá y Mayapán.

Fiction: Cosmic creation

Pedro Ferreira explores Alan Lightman's latest novel — a magical-reality take on the origins of the Universe.

On Modern Cosmology and its Place in Science Education

Cosmology in its current meaning of the science of the universe is a topic that attracts as much popular as scientific interest. This paper argues that modern cosmology and its philosophical aspects should have a prominent place in science education. In the context of science teaching a partly historical approach is recommended, in particular an approach that gives priority to the relationship between observation and theory during the formative years of modern cosmology from about 1910–1970. It is further argued that there are very important aspects of cosmology that are not primarily of a scientific nature, but are mainly conceptual and philosophical (and perhaps religious), and that these, too, might advantageously enter courses in astronomy and physics. While cosmology is a science, it is not just a science. Among the topics dealt with are the big bang, the cosmological principle, cosmic creation, and the multiverse. The paper outlines some cosmological questions of a qualitative and conceptual nature that, in the author’s view, are organic parts of cosmology. Courses and textbooks which deal with cosmology should encourage discussions of such questions, not shun them in the name of science.

Does Awaiting ‘New Heavens and a New Earth’ (2 Pet 3.13) Mean Abandoning the Environment?

This article assesses the environmental implications of the hope of a new heaven/s and new earth as we find it expressed in 2 Peter 3.5-13 and Revelation 21.1-22.5. Both texts present the environmentally problematic scenario in which the present creation is dissolved prior to the establishment of the new created order. It is argued, though, that the hope for a new cosmic creation in these passages is not wholly lacking in environmental appeal. ‘Waiting for’ the new heaven/s and earth does not mean abdicating moral responsibility and is not incompaible with pro-environmental action.

Constructing Identity: The Role of Food in Mexica Migration and Creation Accounts

Constructing Identity: The Role of Food in Mexica Migration and Creation Accounts

Lorentz invariance violation in top-down scenarios of ultrahigh energy cosmic ray creation

The violation of Lorentz invariance (LI) has been invoked in a number of ways to explain issues dealing with ultrahigh energy cosmic ray (UHECR) production and propagation. These treatments, however, have mostly been limited to examples in the proton-neutron system and photon-electron system. In this paper we show how a broader violation of Lorentz invariance would allow for a series of previously forbidden decays to occur, and how that could lead to UHECR primaries being heavy baryonic states or Higgs bosons.

Wolfgang Paalen: artist and theorist of the avant-garde

Preface Introduction Theoretical and Political Origins in Austria and Germany A Paris: 1928-1935 Through a Glass Darkly: 1936-1939 Surrealism in Mexico/Mexico in Surrealism: Prelude to Exile The New World New York School Days DYN 1 (April-May 1942), DYN 2 (July 1942), DYN 3 (Fall 1942): The First Three Issues Totem Lessons: The Northwest Coast and the Amerindian Number of DYN 4-5 (December 1943), and DYN 6 (November 1944) Cosmic Creation The New Man in Barnett Newman Chaotic Magnificence Bibliography Appendices

The Androgynous House: The Symbolism of Chakma Domestic Architecture

This paper examines the cosmic symbolism of a traditional Chakma house. It looks at three significant aspects of its physical character: its orientation, the mirrored pair of entry doors on the principal facade, and the central column. Analysis of their symbolic content indicates that the Chakma house embodies analogies with both human and cosmic creation.

Man, Evolution and Ethics: Teilhard de Chardin, Religion and Evolutionary Reality

considering history of human achievement, recent two- to three-hundred years of human development have specifically enriched sphere of human knowledge. For first time since existence of Homo sapiens, nature, environment, and man himself have all been subjected to a scrutinizing analysis. Modern science has brought about a detached objective study of world around us and has eliminated many mythical and unclear ideas about world and ourselves. Yet materialistic viewpoint merges with an almost spiritualistic thinking. There is a desire to preserve past forms of thought, to preserve old feelings, and a religious longing for a firm background to all our cosmic problems. It is a necessary part of human evolution that we modify old concepts and seek to conceive new frameworks which can help to build a philosophical background that will give our existence a humanized and friendly role. A personified god-father figure is popularly desired. This is because it does not seem reasonable that a cosmic creation as unique as man could have developed as a mere product of chance. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote a much revered series of books in which he attempted to equate evolution with religion. As a Jesuit with an inclination for archaeological research, he touched on several fundamental facts. While his general argument was too vague and philosophical to deserve much analysis (see Monod's judgmentS), his desire to harmonize human values in accord with evolutionary reality was both remarkable and interesting. his book L'Energie Humaine2 (Vol. 6, p. 136), Teilhard de Chardin clearly formulates basic issues arising from our understanding of science. He states that humanity is not seeking another god of infinite power, but rather an understanding of its own This was very significant as it is formulated by a man who still sought to isolate skeleton of god-father-and-son concept from fleeting material world. While Teilhard de Chardin still used such unwords as mystic in his quest for a merger of drive behind evolution with L'amour de Dieu, he eventually arrived at a clear expression of what should be humanity's goal. In us as humans, he writes, the spirit is inherent in evolution and all our perfection, drive, interest, etc., should be found and directed in desire to push forward in our quest for a continued evolution. At a later point in L'Energie Humaine, de Chardin discusses methods by which mankind may effectively maintain genetic hygiene and biological development. He proposed to utilize all scientific methods available not only for control of sickness and counter-evolution (such as sterility and weakness in physical sense), but also to apply methods of selection, hormone action, hygiene, etc. to continue evolution and develop an even more superior human type. Contemporary human society is occupied with everything except its own composition and form, and he asks his readers: Is it without importance how future society is formed, what composition it will have? Are there ethnic groups who do not contribute to our progress or fulfill our needs and who will do nothing more than take up space on this earthly spaceship? Here de Chardin clearly asks fundamental question: What should be attitude of active part of humanity vis-a-vis stagnant populations of low ability and definitely low potential for progressiveness? The earth is, after all, a surface of fixed dimensions and is thus limited in population it can carry! We also read in de Chardin's mind that as a religious man he believes that evolutionary principles should be considered when formulating concept of human rights. If everything humanity has ever gained in struggle for an understanding and organization of nature may be lost due to genetic deterioration, what is purpose of love and tolerance without intelligent discrimination? …

Superfluid 3 He Simulation of Cosmic String Creation in the Early Universe

We discuss the first experimental observations of a deficit in the thermal energy released after the exothermic neutron-3He nuclear reaction in superfluid3He at temperatures approaching 100μK. We propose that this deficit is associated with the creation of a vortex tangle as the liquid3He recrosses the superfluid transition. This process has many similarities with the theory of cosmic string creation during the GUT and electroweak transitions shortly after the Big Bang. Our measurements constitute the first quantitative test of defect creation via the cosmological Kibble mechanism for gauge symmetry breaking phase transitions and agree very well with the predictions of Zurek's scenario.

METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY IN STEPHEN HAWKING'S THEORY OF THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE

Abstract. In 1981 S. W. Hawking and J. Hartle presented a quantum mechanical description of the early stages of possible cosmological evolution. Their proposal was interpreted by many authors as a pattern of cosmic creation from nothing in which no divine Creator is needed. In this approach, physically defined “nothing” was identified both with the empty set of set theory and with metaphysical nothingness. After defining philosophical presuppositions implicitly assumed in Hawking's paper, one discovers that this alleged nothingness has all properties of the philosophically conceived Logos accepted by Hellenic philosophers of the Neoplatonic tradition. Consequently, Hawking's theory of creation remains consistent with Christian theism, and its only theological opponents can be found among defenders of Samuel Clark's God of scientific gaps.