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The Five Points of Calvinism assert that God saves every person upon whom he has mercy, and that his efforts are not frustrated by the unrighteousness or inability of humans. They have been summarized under the acrostic TULIP: total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the saints.
Hitchens's razor is an epistemological razor that serves as a general rule for rejecting certain knowledge claims. It states "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence". [1][2][3] The razor was created by and later named after author and journalist Christopher Hitchens. It implies that the burden of proof ...
This list includes well-known general theories in science and pre-scientific natural philosophy and natural history that have since been superseded by other scientific theories. Many discarded explanations were once supported by a scientific consensus , but replaced after more empirical information became available that identified flaws and ...
e. Subjects of criticism of the Book of Mormon include its origins, authenticity, and historicity, which have been subject to considerable criticism from scholars and skeptics since it was first published in 1830. The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets ...
Historicity of the Bible. The historicity of the Bible is the question of the Bible 's relationship to history —covering not just the Bible's acceptability as history but also the ability to understand the literary forms of biblical narrative. [ 1 ] Questions on biblical historicity are typically separated into evaluations of whether the Old ...
Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. Obsolete biology theories (6 C, 29 P) Obsolete theories in chemistry (4 C, 10 P) Disproved conjectures (28 P) Disproven exoplanets (31 P) Flat Earth (1 C, 19 P) Obsolete geology theories (1 C, 11 P) Hollow Earth (2 C, 5 P)
Think of, say, intelligent design, Holocaust denial, ancient astronaut hypothesis, homoeopathy, the anti-vaccine movement, astrology, or climate change scepticism. Because there are different forms of pseudoscience, one cannot rule out the possibility that different criteria are needed to distinguish them from science.
By promoting a perception that evolution is the subject of wide controversy and debate within the scientific community, whereas in fact evolution is overwhelmingly supported by scientists, [21] [22] the list is used to lend support to other Discovery Institute campaigns promoting intelligent design, [23] [24] including "Teach the Controversy", "Critical Analysis of Evolution", "Free Speech on ...