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| cosmogony | An account of the emergence of the creation of the world |
| etiological | the description of a cause or meaning of a thing |
| creatio ex nihilo | creation by decree or out of nothing |
| Jainism | A religion that began in ancient Indian as a protest against Hindu ritualism |
| Anthropic principle | Fine tuning of the universe required to understand our natural world. |
| Creation science | bases their scientific beliefs on the first two chapters of Genesis. |
| Intelligent Design | The belief that the scietific evidence suggests that an intelligent being created the universe. |
| Stocism | School of Hellenistic thought found in Athens |
| St Augustine | The church father that first wrote about the \concept of "original sin." |
| Sidhartha Guatama | the founder of Buddhism |
| karma | The spiritual law of cause and effect |
| an-atman | The Buddhist doctrine of non-self |
| dukkha | Buddhist doctrine of suffering |
| Nirvana | Enlightenment in Buddhism |
| Eight fold path | Path that leads to enlightenment in Buddhism |
| Confucius | believed that the solution to the incessant life was to return to the Golden Age. |
| dharma | law |
| samsara | the wheel of rebirth |
| deontological ethics | ethics viewed as an elucidation of a morality that is necessary, obligatory, and unconditional, irrespective of conditions or consequences |
| teleological ethics | An ethical system that focuses on the consequences and actions for the grater good for the greater number |
| virtue ethics | Ethical system espoused by Aristotle that focuses on moral virtue. It is about becoming the virtuous person. |
| dao | The cosmic natural law espoused by both Daoism and Confucianism |
| Natural law | A theory of law that holds that human moral action is grounded in the essential structure of reality itself. |
| St Thomas Aquinas | The greatest of all Roman Catholic teachers. he believed that the moral law was God's plan for human beings. |
| Martin Luther | The first Protestant reformer |
| moksha | Liberation in Hinduism |
| halakhah | The tradition of legal decisions and prescriptive rules of the rabbis concerning every aspect of Jewish observance. |
| Rosh Hashanah | The New Years Day festival in Judaism |
| Passover | The Jewish festival that commemorates the Exodus of Israel from the bondage of Egypt |
| bar mitzvah | A rite of passage for Jewish males signifying their entrance into adulthood |
