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  2. Religious cosmology - Wikipedia

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    Religious cosmology is an explanation of the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe from a religious perspective. This may include beliefs on origin in the form of a creation myth , subsequent evolution, current organizational form and nature, and eventual fate or destiny.

  3. History of beliefs about the human body - Wikipedia

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    Other types of change in the world were classified by Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. Applied to the body these 5 forces were the Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lung, and Kidney. These representations of the physical world in the body was understood dynamically and represents a deeper connection to the non animate objects and surroundings of a human.

  4. Worldview - Wikipedia

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    [13] [14] Additionally, religious believers might not wish to see their beliefs relativized into something that is only "true for them". [15] [16] Subjective logic is a belief-reasoning formalism where beliefs explicitly are subjectively held by individuals but where a consensus between different worldviews can be achieved. [17] [clarification ...

  5. History of anatomy - Wikipedia

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    The demonstrations were structured into dissections and lectures. The dissections focused on the skill of autopsy/vivisection while the lectures would center on the philosophical questions of anatomy. This is exemplary of how anatomy was viewed not only as the study of structures but also the study of the "body as an extension of the soul". [55]

  6. History of the location of the soul - Wikipedia

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    It had both the vitality and the warmth. It was in a position to move voluntarily. It also had thoughts. Therefore, the blood was avital spirit overlaid on the natural spirits or the nutritive. The natural spirit originated from the food and the drink, the origin of the vital spirit was from the atmospheric air .

  7. Catholic theology on the body - Wikipedia

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    Human procreation, like all questions of life, is a part of God's loving design. Married life takes its origin from God, who "is love." Husband and wife cooperate with God in the generation and rearing of new lives. [50] Married love must therefore be more than a question of natural instinct or emotional drive.

  8. Religion - Wikipedia

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    The origin of religious belief is an open question, with possible explanations including awareness of individual death, a sense of community, and dreams. [8] Religions have sacred histories , narratives , and mythologies , preserved in oral traditions, sacred texts , symbols , and holy places , that may attempt to explain the origin of life ...

  9. Evolutionary origin of religion - Wikipedia

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    Collective religious belief draws upon the emotions of love, fear, and gregariousness and is deeply embedded in the limbic system through socio-biological conditioning and social sanction. Individual religious belief utilizes reason based in the neocortex and often varies from collective religion.