The Origin of the Universe: Big Bang to God Theory

The universe is full of mystical things. Since ages, the belief that God became the Universe is a theological doctrine that has been developed. Evolutionary biologists and Modern scientists still believes in Big Bang theory. Many thinkers, theologians, philosophers, and scientists are unable to confirm the exact process of the origin of the universe. Hence, this paper focuses on analyzing the history of theologians, mythologists, philosophers, cosmologists and scientists research evidences, insights, theories, and rationales to find out about the origin of the universe. The study uses metaanalysis of universe origin scriptures, research, insights, and bibliographies which was put forth by theologians, philosophers, cosmologists, and scientists. The study found that as per Bhagavad-Gita, God is the source of all spiritual, intellectual, and material world. In 1996, Pastor Bob Burridge of the Genevan Institute for Reformed Studies reveals that as per Christian theology, God becoming the universe is not accordant with it. In the 1940s, Charles Hartshorne identified pandeism as a possible model of God’s nature as God is capable of changing. In 2001, Scott Adams surmised that an omnipotent God annihilated himself in the Big Bang. This is considered as per mythologist’s world created from dead deity physical substances. All Catholic scientists reported that God’s light and love revealed his creation. Physicist Bernard Haisch in his book entitled “The God Theory” concluded that the deity became the universe. Alan Dawe's (2011) book titled “The God Franchise” concludes that human knowledge is a briefly separated piece of God’s skill. Raphael Lataster (2013), Australian religious studies Scholar, projected that "Pandeism is the future God-concept of all". There is a long list of Catholic scientists who in their quest for learning maintained God at the origin of all existence. Theology and mythology proofs are not conforming with both science and philosophy. The Evolving God concept is also a wrong idea of metaphysics. If it is so, man would have been found under developed state. Jafree Ozwald explains that based on human request, the universe is not able to fulfill it but God does. The universe is not God. God is God. The study concludes that God created the universe from nothing and He is yet to manifest Himself. God is a supernatural power and has a divine holy nature that is omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience. The study suggests that the sharing of knowledge, debate, discussions, and consensus based on their evidences and perceptions among theologists, philosophers, mythologists, and scientists on the universe origin is a future task.

Pregiudizi, stereotipi e luoghi comuni: l’inatteso riflesso dell’Albania di Hergé e Scott Adams

Sembrerebbe che tanto il fumetto e il suo codice quanto lo stereotipo insistano sul medesimo spazio; facendo riferimento ad esso e cercando di ricostruirne dimensioni e limiti, il saggio ricostruisce il modo in cui è possibile comprendere come funziona il meccanismo dell’immaginario che muove i fumetti di due grandi autori e, dunque, la struttura della loro figurazione. I due autori in questione sono Hergé, al secolo Georges Rémi, capostipite della scuola fumettistica franco-belga – considerato il Balzac della nona arte, probabilmente anche per la tipicità dei suoi personaggi, è l’ideatore, nel 1929, del più tipico di essi: Tintin –, e Scott Adams, disegnatore americano, creatore, nel 1989, delle diffusissime strisce di Dilbert. Entrambi gli autori ricorrono a un luogo con le peculiarità dell’Albania e ne fanno il punto di innesco del processo di immaginazione: l’effetto che ne scaturisce può essere inatteso e deflagrante.

Intelligence and Information Gathering Through Deliberative Crowdsourcing

The hollowing of the state has added new challenges for administrators attending to the competing values of the administration. This article examines how the wisdom of the crowds can be used in a deliberative manner to extract new knowledge through crowdsourcing. We will specifically examine cases of intelligence and information gathering through the analysis of a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria and the use of the crowd in mapping unknown or rapidly changing environments. Through case analysis, this article seeks to understand if crowdsourcing can offer a potential opportunity for public managers to reduce transactions costs while engaging the crowd in a form of deliberative governance to understand and potentially solve public problems. Our approach involves applying the seven lessons of deliberative governance (Scott, Adams, & Wechsler, 2004) to our cases in order to produce five administrative concepts for creating mini-publics for deliberative crowdsourcing.

O princípio Dilbert e a educação:

O objeto deste artigo é Dilbert, personagem criado pelo cartunista americano Scott Adams e publicado em tiras de jornal desde 1989. O autor representa, de forma sarcástica e com a contribuição de seu público, o convívio conflituoso de funcionários no trabalho em escritórios. Entendemos que a eficácia da mensagem depende de um elo comum entre o emissor e o receptor, uma porta de entrada para o universo desconhecido que a obra propõe; o humor é uma excelente opção de vínculo, pois, para produzir o efeito desejado, a piada gera envolvimento, desperta a percepção, provoca estados de atenção e de compreensão simultâneos. Desse modo, os quadrinhos de humor são uma mídia usada com frequência na educação, promovendo o interesse dos alunos sobre os assuntos abordados em sala de aula. A pergunta que nos interessa responder é: “de que forma o humor nas tiras de Dilbert pode contribuir para a ampliação da consciência crítica do público sobre as relações no ambiente de trabalho?”. Consideramos que Dilbert atua como uma lente sarcástica sobre um pequeno recorte de um amplo objeto: as relações entre empregados no âmbito das grandes empresas, local onde a rigidez do cotidiano cria e reproduz estruturas de controle e domínio dos sujeitos. O humor e a crítica na obra de Adams têm o potencial de elevar a consciência do leitor, por meio das provocações sobre os temas que aborda.

The Effect of Casinos on Local Labor Markets: A County Level Analysis

The economic outcomes surrounding the dramatic spread of “Las Vegas” style casinos in the United States has become a point of great interest and inquiry both politically and academically. Prior research has tended to focus on regional studies and provided uniform conclusions regardless of differences in the nature of the community. Moreover, much of the previous empirical work fails to account for local level trends during estimation. By using a comprehensive data set on employment and earnings from across the US, and by including county-specific trends, this research hopes to alleviate these earlier concerns, as well as help reconcile differences in the early literature surrounding casino effects on related industrial sectors. Basic findings suggest that counties experience an increase in employment after a casino opens, but there seems to be no measurable effect on average earnings. More detailed analysis reveals that the effect on industries related to casinos is somewhat mixed, but in general mildly positive, as casinos provide a positive employment and earnings spillovers into the surrounding local community. Intertemporal estimation suggests that the casino effect changes over time, but also finds that time effects vary across sectors. Estimates of how overall effects vary across different population sizes find that employment growth is inversely related to county population. Finally, additional estimation finds little impact on employment levels in neighboring counties, although there are some small effects in certain industries.I would like to thank Scott Adams, Scott Drewianka, John Heywood, James Peoples, McKinley Blackburn, Keith Bender, Don Siegel, Gary Anders, Doug Walker, and Mike Wentz for their helpful suggestions. I would also thank David Mustard and Earl Grinols for their help with the data. Dain Johnson provided valuable research assistance.