Word: phenomena
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Throughout history, dreams have remained some of the most talked about, written about and least understood human phenomena. Their bizarre manifestations are sources of comfort and pain, happiness and terror. Dreams temporarily permit us to escape the confines of our bodies, engage in private, surrealistic melodramas and awaken the next morning with no visible effects. But why do we dream? So far, all explanations have basically been conjectures...
What hath all the hoopla and brouhaha wrought? Not much. The convention merely reaffirmed several predictable phenomena...
There all resemblance ends. The music, which is the heart of both phenomena, serves Cowboy mainly as a banal background, not as the dramatic center -the justification really-for the characters' lives. Director James Bridges, whose last film was the smooth, tight thriller The China Syndrome, does not bring to his realization of the C. and W. scene anything like the dynamic energy, the sheer stylistic force with which John Badham drove Fever. Finally, the electric charge that Travolta jolted into that film is missing here. If he keeps on this way, he will turn...
...First Cause or Prime Mover. In How to, Adler rejects that starting point because a universe with a beginning presupposes the Creator that it seeks to prove. Therefore Adler assumes that the universe had no beginning. He also rejects the idea that a higher cause underlies and explains all phenomena in the universe, on the ground that natural processes provide sufficient explanation...
...comparative plausibility of various arguments and evidences using Adler's favored standard of judgment, the jury's proof "beyond a reasonable doubt." This permits atheists to avoid having to disprove God absolutely, which is as hard to do as prove his existence, and lets theists cite human phenomena that strict empiricism used to rule out. In The Existence of God (Oxford; $37.50), Richard Swinburne of England's Keele University concludes: "The experience of so many men in their moments of religious vision corroborates what nature and history show to be quite likely-that there...