Special Creation Research Articles

ГОТОВНІСТЬ ОСОБОВОГО СКЛАДУ ДО ПРОЦЕСУ ВПРОВАДЖЕННЯ ДЕРЖАВНОЇ ГЕНДЕРНОЇ ПОЛІТИКИ: СУТНІСТЬ, ЗМІСТ, КРИТЕРІЇ, ПОКАЗНИКИ ТА РІВНІ СФОРМОВАНОСТІ

The article demonstrates its relevance and reveals the results of theoretical and empirical research on the implementation of this work. The investigation made it possible to specify the essence and meaning of the concept of “readiness of the military service of the National Guard of Ukraine before the implementation of the state gender policy” as an integral internal special creation, includes: the true essence, significance and ways of implementing the state gender policy among the military middle class, awareness of the specificity and special role of justice as a result of the implementation of this policy in the process of life of the child, a focus has been formed on the adoption of similar values and the regulation of healthy behavior based on them, which is active in the antidote diet and any manifestations of discrimination based on gender signs. It has been established that the readiness of a special warehouse before the implementation of state gender policy involves a rich component of dynamic structures, the structure of which includes: motivational-valuable, cognitive and behavioral components, and the level of readiness is important It is formed in a special warehouse of essential components. It is stated that the main criterion for the readiness of a special warehouse before the implementation of the state gender policy is the formation of the significance of the most important components of this readiness. Under the indicators of readiness for a special warehouse before the implementation of the state gender policy, we can understand the stage of formation of motivational-valuable, cognitive and behavioral components. The criteria for the level of formation of the readiness of a special warehouse before the implementation of the state gender policy are the characteristics of the manifestation of components on the skin level (high, medium and low). Based on the specified array of previous information, a description of the levels (high, medium, low) of the formation of the skin structural component of readiness was made. It is determined that the guidance material is the basis for dividing the methodology for assessing the level of readiness of the military service (special warehouse) before the implementation of the state gender policy.

Analysis of Clothes of Persons With Disability with Palsy Cerebral for Adolescents Based on Topography

This study aims to determine needs about form of clothing for disabled people with cerebral palsy for young women. The research was conducted at Development Foundation for Children with Disabilities, Jakarta. 5 respondents with disabilities were grouped into 2 group based on topography or the number of disabilities in their bodies. The research method used is qualitative with a case study research approach. The result of this study indicates the need for dress form according to the conditions of type of disability based on the topography, namely diplegia and triplegia. Respondents still need help from others in dressing; experiencing difficulties in dressing; comfort and like the position of the front opening; can use types of openings such as zippers, buttons, and velcro; having difficulty with eye and hand coordination so it is more comfortable to use buttons that are not too small such as medium size buttons with less buttons. Respondents use pants for their daily clothes; baggy pants size maxi, midi and angkel size. The type of materials used are materials that fall, not too stiff and cool, colors suitable for adolescents can be dark but not black so they are not easily dirty, comfortable and prefer looser clothes; comfortable wearing more closed clothes; comfortable using thin cotton. On average, respondents having no problem in choosing colors on clothes, but rather on models and openings that need special creation based on topographic types.

Penebusan Hanya Oleh Darah Anak Domba Allah (Yesus Kristus) 1 Perus 1:18-19

God created the first humans, namely Adam and Eve, both were created in the image and likeness of God and there was no sin in them, but Adam and Eve ultimately fell into sin because of human greed and violating what God commanded. They ate the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil which God had forbidden them to eat. Because when they eat it they die and death is what makes humans sin and lose the glory of God from themselves. In the book of Romans 3:23, it says "Sin separates humans from God and humans cannot come to God because of the conflict that occurs between humans and God. So sin leads humans to eternal death and destruction. But because God's love is so great for His special creation, namely humans, who are in the image and likeness of Him, that He took the initiative to free humans from the destruction caused by human sin itself.

God, Gould, and the Panda’s Thumb

The panda’s thumb argument, championed by the late Stephen Jay Gould, stands as one of the most famous polemics for common ancestry. In this essay, I analyze Gould’s argument in several steps. First, I attempt to reconstruct the argument in both deductive and likelihood formulations. I contend that both versions of the argument rest on a theological claim—namely, that God would not (likely) create or allow a suboptimal panda’s thumb. I then argue that a wide range of people are not rationally obligated to accept this theological claim. Next, I give special attention to the likelihood formulation’s emphasis on a contrastive argument for evolution over special creation. I contend that a great number of people are not rationally obligated to accept this formulation either. I next consider and reply to an objection that Gould never intended the panda argument as an apologetic for evolution (and an attack on special creation) but rather as a critique of adaptationism. Finally, I argue that the panda argument conflicts with Gould’s broader views about the human mind and the relationship between theology and science. I also note along the way that the shortcomings of the panda argument apply to a number of other arguments for evolutionary theory. To be sure, I do not criticize evolution itself or the comprehensive grounds for it. Instead, my primary aims are to analyze the panda argument and suggest that caution is in order about similar arguments as well.

The Distortions and Realities of the Senate’s Constitutional Purpose: Setting the Record Straight on “Senate Exceptionalism”

Abstract Drawing on part of the argument from my recent book, The Senate: From White Supremacy to Government Gridlock (University of Virginia Press, 2021), I critique what I call “Senate exceptionalism:” the notion that the Senate is the framers’ particularly special or remarkable creation. I do so by contrasting the historical and constitutional distortions that support this institutional conceit with the realities of the founding and American political development. After reviewing the parallels between the ideas and tenets of American and Senate exceptionalism, I introduce four arguments from the book that undermine the basis of the Senate’s exceptionalism and in particular draw critical attention to the constitutional mythology surrounding and supporting the filibuster in the form of Senate Rule XXII and its three-fifths supermajority threshold for ending debate on many matters before the Senate.

Christian Faith View On Mid-Brain Activation System And Its Impact On The Spirituality Of Children Aged 6 To 12 Years Old In Surabaya

God created humans as the most special creation compared to His other creations. Human intelligence is caused by one organ which, although small in size, has a very vital role, namely the brain. Advances in knowledge and technology have encouraged scientists to try solving the mysteries of the brain. Many studies have focused on the right brain and left brain, or to balance the right brain and left brain. But in recent years, there has been a training/self-development institute who stated that they had found a way to balance the right and left brain, namely by activating the midbrain. This midbrain activation method is aimed at children aged 5-15 years because it is considered that children at this age are more easily activated in a very short time through a computer.The method used in writing this work is a Literature Study that contains various information on matters related to the topic of discussion. In addition to using literature, writing will be complemented by field research, using a Check List to interview respondents. The research approach used are qualitative and quantitative approach. A The qualitative approach obtains data regarding respondent's experiences. This writing has the aim of finding ( knowing ) whether the Midbrain Activation system is in accordance with God's Word or against God's Word; to open the horizons of parents, congregations and even readers of this paper, especially those with children, so that they can be more careful in choosing training for their children.

From Empedocles to Symbiogenetics: Lynn Margulis's revolutionary influence on evolutionary biology

As a primary expositor of the work of Lynn Margulis collaborating with her over thirty years on over thirty books and forty articles, scientific and popular, I attempt here to summarize her unique and lasting influence on evolutionary biology. Describing life on Earth as the multi-billion-year evolution of microbial communities, from prokaryotes maintaining Earth's atmosphere away from thermodynamic equilibrium to all eukaryotes as polygenomic beings, Margulis's interdisciplinary work has deeply influenced multiple fields including systematics, theories of the evolution of metabolism, paleobiology, and biogeochemistry. Overturning the neo-Darwinist narrative that speciation almost always occurs by the gradual accumulation of random mutations, Margulis's work revives a discarded philosophical speculation of the pre-Socratic Empedocles, who suggested that Earth's early beings both merged and differentially reproduced (were naturally selected); a speculation that was rejected by Aristotle probably because it smacked of mythological chimeras that had no place in observational biology, and later by Charles Darwin, who mentioned Aristotle's rejection of Empedocles to show that he knew of but did not accept natural selection, thus helping lay his own claim to its own proper scientific presentation in a Victorian culture whose thinking of origins was dominated not by Greek mythology but Christian special creation. Margulis's curiosity-driven science, collaborative work ethic, status as a woman, embrace of novelty, philosophical stance, current status of her theories, and the proposal for a new science of symbiogenetics are among the topics examined.

THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FINANCIAL LEVERS

The article considers the theoretical aspects of evaluating the effectiveness of financial levers. The subject of the research is the approaches to the formation of financial levers groups and determining their impact on the economic entities activities in special (free) economic zones. The purpose of the article is to highlight the approaches to assessing the effectiveness of financial levers action. The research methodology is general scientific and special methods. The article determines the main approaches to the selection of indicators for assessing of business entities activities, taking into account the specifics of their functioning in special (free) economic zones. It is noted that today an analysis of the effectiveness of financial levers is not carried out on a regular basis, various indicators are used, and there is no systematic approach. Financial levers are an integral part of the financial mechanism and they operate in conjunction with its other elements. Therefore, the evaluation of the effectiveness of financial leverage using should be carried out taking into account the purpose of their use and the period of obtaining the expected results. Generalization of approaches to the analysis of the effectiveness of financial levers made it possible to propose to evaluate their action on the following grounds: in accordance with the sphere of manifestation of efficiency – economic, social, budgetary and environmental; in accordance with the period of obtaining the expected results – efficiency in the short, medium and long term; in accordance with the level of manifestation – efficiency at the national, regional, sectoral levels, the level of enterprises and individual specially selected territories. In accordance with the proposed system of indicators, calculations were carried out, which showed an ambiguous result of the influence of financial levers on the business entities activities. The conducted research and existing positive foreign experience made it possible propose to develop a concept for the special zones creation with a balanced system of financial levers.

Certain issues of providing units of the Security Service of Ukraine with special technical means and special equipment: historical and analytical aspect of event planning and organization

The article covers the issues of planning and organization of activity in the field of special technical means and special equipment development and manufacturing in the Security Service of Ukraine. The history of special equipment creation in the Security Service of Ukraine is investigated. Ways to solve the problem of special technical means and special equipment development and manufacturing in the Security Service of Ukraine are reviewed. The stages of the Ukrainian scientific and research Institute of special equipment and forensic expertise of the Security Service of Ukraine creation are covered. The participation of the Security Service of Ukraine in the implementation of state (target) programs in the context of short-term and long-term planning is described. The article contains analysis of departmental normative acts in the field of scientific and scientific-technical activities organizing and implementation in the Security Service system. Proposals about the creation of a unified system of providing the SSU units and bodies with special technical means and special equipment, including financing and rational available resources distribution are made.

Old-Earth or Evolutionary Creation? Discussing Origins with Reasons to Believe and BioLogos

Old-Earth or Evolutionary Creation? Discussing Origins with Reasons to Believe and BioLogos

A Historical Survey of Evolution in the Concept and Status of “Man” Greek to Modern Times

Study of human nature has been one of the most important questions to which man has come across. Right from the period when man started thinking rationally, because of his curious and enquiring nature, he meditated about Universe, existence and nature of Man and his ultimate reality. The religious tradition claims that when Man first came to earth, he knew the answer to these questions in the light of divine guidance. It declared “Man” as the crown of all the creations and all the other things are created to serve him. The civilizations that didn’t have the luxury of divine guidance developed mythological explanations. It were the Greeks who for the first time developed an intellectual discourse to answer the basic question about the reality of Man and the Universe. The medieval period was dominated by religious traditions. All these traditions, though different from one another, seem to agree to the point that Man is a special creation and the center of the Universe with some amount of divinity attributed to him. But after Renaissance, this view changed radically and the status of “Man” shrunk to an animal only who was thought-to-be guided by his own instincts and who was through and through a profane creation. This research aims at studying the concept of “Man” in different civilizations and explores the evolution of this concept from Greek to Modern times through analytical research method.

Шляхи, форми та методи впровадження медіаосвіти в навчально-виховний процес

In April 2016, the Presidium of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine approved a new version of the Concept for the introduction of media education in Ukraine. The purpose of the Concept is to create a system of media education, which should become the foundation of humanitarian security, development and consolidation of civil society, combating external information aggression, comprehensively prepare children and youth for safe and effective interaction with the modern media system, form media literacy and media to their age, individual and other features. The article, based on the analysis of domestic and foreign scientific sources, systematizes theoretical and practical developments of domestic and foreign scientists on the most effective ways, forms and methods of media education. It is established that there are three common ways of introducing media education in the educational process: integrated (through traditional subjects); optional (creation of a network of circles, sections, clubs); special (creation of special courses and special courses). One of the forms of integration of media education is the introduction of media courses. Popular are the creation of television or cinematic mini-scripts, class lectures, role-playing games on the material of various media. It was found that the organization of media centers, media clubs, film clubs and photo laboratories can be considered innovative forms of media literacy. The classifications of media education methods by L. Zaznobina, M. Matviychuk, L. Masterman, S. Penzin, O. Fedorov are considered. It is established that one of the most effective methods of media education researchers consider interactive: trainings, moderations, program training, case method (analysis of practical situations), business and role-playing games, discussions, creative problem solving method, project method. The choice of such methods is due to the possibility of their integration into individual disciplines. They provide an opportunity to intensify the process of understanding, learning and creative application of knowledge and help increase the motivation and involvement of participants in the process of joint problem solving, creative search.

SAFE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AS AN OBJECT OF PEDAGOGICAL DESIGN

Purpose of the study: The main task of this research is to analyze the scientific points of view on a safe educational environment.
 Methodology: When writing this scientific work, an analysis was conducted of various sources (scientific monographs and publications) on the topic of creating a safe educational environment. Such methods as analysis and synthesis were used, a systematic approach to data analysis was also applied.
 Main Findings: The pedagogical reflection of safety is focused on the problem of providing safe conditions for the reproduction of a viable generation, which actualizes the need for the special design of a safe educational environment for students and the preparation of bachelors of education in this direction. The need to design an educational environment to ensure the safety of students stems from their lack of ability to ensure personal safety and the targeted educational priorities in reproducing a viable generation.
 Novelty/Originality of this study: The design of a safe educational environment in its turn is regarded as a special creation of opportunities for human self-development, which involves the introduction of innovations in the organization of the educational process to minimize risks to physical, mental and social well-being, as well as to ensure the quality of education.

A Theological Fittingness Argument for the Evolution of Homo Sapiens

ABSTRACTWhy did God choose to create using an evolutionary process rather than via special creation? I propose that it was fitting for God to have created the original human beings via evolution rather than via special creation because the former better reveals his glory than the latter. It is a theological fittingness argument that can provide answers to some of the common objections to theistic evolution.

Scientific and Religious Perspectives on Evolution in the Curriculum: an Approach Based on Pedagogy of Difference

There is a long history of some students finding that the science instruction they receive in schools fails to address their deeply held concerns about the theory of evolution. Such concerns are principally religious, though there are also students with deeply held religious views who are perfectly comfortable with the theory of evolution. New instructional strategies are emerging, aimed at reducing the tensions that may exist between evolution and religion by making space for students to examine their own views and recognize the spectrum of views that exists between atheistic evolution and special creation, as well as the bounded nature of science and different ways of knowing. In this article, we discuss the teaching of evolution in societies where acceptance of the theory of evolution is far from universal, and argue that an approach based on pedagogy of difference has considerable potential to enhance students’ development of epistemic insight through recognition of the multiple perspectives that exist concerning the relationship between religion and science. In doing so, we explicate precisely what pedagogy of difference entails and introduce an approach that should enhance evolution education, and even aid students’ situating of science as a resource for making decisions about issues with scientific and societal aspects where the acknowledgement of multiple perspectives is valuable.

“You knit me together in my mother’s womb”: a theology of creation and divine action in light of intersex

ABSTRACTSome Christian theologians and intersex Christians maintain that intersex is part of God’s good and intended creation, in contrast to those who view intersex as a pathological result of fallen nature. The former claim that intersex bodies “are how God made them” and that “God does not make mistakes;” however, these statements risk implying a belief in special creation or divine intervention, two theological positions which have been challenged by evolutionary theory and contemporary natural sciences. This paper provides a more nuanced theology of creation and divine action as a foundation for a positive theology of intersex. Drawing from the work of Thomas Aquinas on primary and secondary causality, the author argues that God, as primary cause, creates the intersex person through the free interplay of secondary causes, in the same way and to the same extent that God acts in the creation of every other person.

GAME TECHNOLOGIES: THE ESSENCE, POSSIBILITIES OF WORKING WITH THE SERVICEMEN THE COMBATANTS

The article analyzes the general approaches to the problem of the use of gaming technologies in working with the servicemen the combatants. There are presented in the research various scientific approaches to the essence of the concept of “game”. It is a special pedagogical creation; a manifestation of individual and collective game activity; an expression of a person’s attitude to an event, processes, phenomena; a mean of obtaining social experience. It is characterized gaming technologies as a group of methods and techniques for organizing a rehabilitation process in the form of various games. The advantages of gaming technology during the rehabilitation of a serviceman are the ability to obtain knowledge and form appropriate skills; to make a decision; to evaluate own actions and actions of partners; to develop a strategy and tactics of their own actions. It is established that in conducting any kind of games with the combatants it is necessary to observe the technology. The technology involves three stages. The first stage focuses on the preparation for the conduct of a training session in a gaming form. It contains the content, game script, gameplay stages, clear step-by-step instruction for combatants. At the second stage, the game is being conducted directly. It is aimed at revealing the internal (psychological), external (physical) and social activity of the servicemen. The third stage is intended to summarize the results of the game, formulate the conclusions, and identify the positive aspects of the game’s effectiveness to their personal growth by the soldiers. The attention is focused on the principles of the game. They are binding and interrelated – simulating the simulation of specific conditions; problem content of the business game; joint activity of participants in conditions of role interaction; dialogic communication and interaction of the game partners; two-plan game activity

Was the Watchmaker Blind? Or Was She One-Eyed?

The question whether evolution is blind is usually presented as a choice between no goals at all (‘the blind watchmaker’) and long-term goals which would be external to the organism, for example in the form of special creation or intelligent design. The arguments either way do not address the question whether there are short-term goals within rather than external to organisms. Organisms and their interacting populations have evolved mechanisms by which they can harness blind stochasticity and so generate rapid functional responses to environmental challenges. They can achieve this by re-organising their genomes and/or their regulatory networks. Epigenetic as well as DNA changes are involved. Evolution may have no foresight, but it is at least partially directed by organisms themselves and by the populations of which they form part. Similar arguments support partial direction in the evolution of behavior.

Sacrum i przestrzeń. Hierotopia wyspy Kefalonia (wstępne rezultaty badania pilotażowego)

The Byzantine and post-Byzantine cultural heritage of Greek islands and peninsulas is still a blank slate for most Europeans. Only a few scholars from outside Greece focus their scientific studies on artefacts and anything which could be considered as so-called intangible cultural heritage of the humanity. The objective of the study was to investigate the hierotopy of the religious heritage of Cephalonia. I was interested in whether the island has hierotopic spaces, saturated with special power and the resulting special creation in the islanders’ minds. I searched for the beliefs about the origins of these places, extraordinary events, or the related sacred figures and organizations of spaces in the places used by Cephalonians for religious worship. The article uses qualitative methods of scientific research applied from the emic perspectives (free interviews, explicit and implicit participatory observation, photographic documentation and analysis of visual material). The research also focused on the secondary (historic and ethnographic) sources as well as on resources available on the Internet. The study has shown that an important role in Cephalonians’ religious imagination is played by the insular nature of the region and the elements: the sea surrounding the land and the earthquakes which cyclically strike the island. These specific natural conditions have given birth to local legends and hierotopic creations of places of religious worship. They have formed the pantheon of the holy figures, whose presence is emphasized by the specific hierotopy of the places of religious worship built on the island.

Measurement of an image jitter of an extended incoherent radiation source

A scheme of an image jitter measuring device, which uses an extended incoherent source as a radiation source, is presented. The efficiency of the measuring device is analysed analytically and numerically in order to justify the operation of the adaptive optical system that does not require special creation or formation of a reference source. The features of the formed image of incoherent radiation are considered, in particular from the point of view of its possible application for measuring the phase fluctuations of optical waves propagating in a turbulent atmosphere (the adaptive system monitors the image of a self-luminous object illuminated by extraneous sources). The possibility of utilising a Shack – Hartmann wavefront sensor in adaptive systems using the image of an arbitrary object (or its fragment) as a reference source is shown.