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Define A statement of the exact meaning of a word, especially in a dictionary. OR The degree of distinctness in outline of an object, image, or sound. OR To state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.) OR To explain or identify the nature or essential qualities of; describe OR The act of defining , or of making something definite, distinct, or clear Experience Practical contact with and observation of facts or events. OR An event or occurrence which leaves an impression on someone. OR The process of doing and seeing things and of having things happen to you. OR Skill or knowledge that you get by doing something. Difference Define is only to express about the any object, things while the experience is a practical which done on any person or happen with any person. Religion The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. OR

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DefineA statement of the exact meaning of a word, especially in a dictionary. OR

The degree of distinctness in outline of an object, image, or sound. OR

To state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.) OR

To explain or identify the nature or essential qualities of; describe OR

The act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear

ExperiencePractical contact with and observation of facts or events. OR

An event or occurrence which leaves an impression on someone. OR

The process of doing and seeing things and of having things happen to you. OR

Skill or knowledge that you get by doing something.

DifferenceDefine is only to express about the any object, things while the experience is a practical which done on any person or happen with any person.

ReligionThe belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. OR

A particular system of faith and worship. OR

A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of theuniverse, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritualobservances, and often containing a moral code governing the conductof human affairs. OR

A specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreedupon by a number of persons or sects: OR

A specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreedupon by a number of persons or sects: OR

A religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence.[note 1] Many religions have narratives, symbols, and sacred histories that aim to explain the meaning of life and/or to explain the origin of life or the Universe. From their beliefs

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about the cosmos and human nature, people may derive morality, ethics, religious laws or a preferred lifestyle.

Purpose

Peace, civilization, ethics, code of conduct for life, satisfaction.

ScienceThe word science comes from the Latin "scientia," meaning knowledge.

The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. OR

A systematically organized body of knowledge on a particular subject. OR

Knowledge attained through study or practice," or "knowledge covering general truths of the operation of general laws, esp. as obtained and tested through scientific method [and] concerned with the physical world." OR

Knowledge about or study of the natural world based on facts learned through experiments and observation. OR

A branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truthssystematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: OR

Systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation. OR

Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about theuniverse. In an older and closely related meaning, "science" also refers to this body of knowledge itself, of the type that can be rationally explained and reliably applied. Ever since classical antiquity, science as a type of knowledge has been closely linked to philosophy. In the West during the early modern period the words "science" and "philosophy of nature" were sometimes used interchangeably,[3]:p.3 and until the 19th century natural philosophy (which is today called "natural science") was considered a branch of philosophy.

Purpose

What is the purpose of science? Perhaps the most general description is that the purpose of science is to produce useful models of reality.

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Most scientific investigations use some form of the scientific method. Find out more about the scientific method.

Science as defined above is sometimes called pure science to differentiate it from applied science, which is the application of research to human needs. Fields of science are commonly classified along two major lines:

Natural sciences, the study of the natural world, and

Social sciences, the systematic study of human behavior and society.

Difference between both

Mostly religions had been linked with divine while a few also declared by men. Religion does not believe in experiments while its demands ‘blind faith’ while in science there is total opposition of faith and the things could not be verified till the observation, steps and experiments.

Q. 3The focus of this article is the Law of Cause & Effect. Based on the Socratic law of causality, this Law is so profound and powerful that it has been referred to as the “Iron Law of Human Destiny”

Law of Cause & Effect:

The Law of Cause & Effect states that absolutely everything happens for a reason. All actions have consequences and produce specific results, as do all inactions. The choices we make are causes, whether they are conscious or unconscious, and will produce corresponding outcomes or effects. The Law works the same for everyone at all times.

Distilled down to the simplest possible terms, this Law states that for every outcome or effect in one’s life, there is a specific cause; poor diet and exercise habits result in poor health, constant and uncontrolled spending results in debt and money worries, not putting effort into your key relationships results in poor relationships and all of the associated issues.    

The quantum physics article on this web site will assist you in gaining a full understanding of this law. Remember that this law is not the same as the law of attraction, this is about what you put out (cause) will have a

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result (effect). The trick is to know which one you are using at any one point in time, and when you do to use it properly. 

The law can also be applied in the physical sense through examination of Sir Isaac Newton’s third Law of Motion, which states that “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” If, for example, you were to hold your hand over a candle’s flame (the cause) the effect would be that your hand would burn and it would hurt! While this is an extreme example, it serves to illustrate the point very well.

Consider another situation which is specific to business. Imagine that your business is so successful you cannot keep up with the demand – a nice problem to have! Eventually, the levels of customer service deteriorate as your staff attempts to cope with the problem. You receive complaints and employee morale begins to suffer.   

At this point, you have a choice to make – try to muddle through with the existing situation or hire more people. This is a difficult decision as there are many unknowns when hiring – will you get the right person, will he / she be part of the solution or part of the problem, what will happen to your cash flow etc.

Whichever decision you make becomes the cause – either you hire or don’t. The effect is the result of the decision. If you hired someone, there should be some relief for your existing staff, and customers should become happier with your service (providing of course, you hired the right person and then invested to train them properly). If the decision was to not hire, the effect would likely be dissatisfied, and eventually, lost customers and potentially lost employees as well – unless you can find another solution (cause) to implement (process re-engineering etc.). This is a recipe for disaster which could easily see the business fail altogether – the ultimate effect.The same holds true with your personal relationships. If you treat the important people in your life with respect, love, compassion, dignity and honesty (cause), you will experience loving, solid relationships – which lead to happiness, fulfillment and peace of mind (effect).

Making It Work for You:

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The truly wonderful thing about this law is that by definition then, we should be able to manifest that which we truly want (the effect) simply by exerting the same causes that others before us have exerted and been successful. Let me explain:If you have a desire to be a successful and highly paid businessperson in your chosen field, then you should be able to look back and study what made others, before you, successful. What books did they read, courses did they study, beliefs did they hold, actions did they take?

If you were to emulate the things they did to be successful, you would achieve the same results over a period of time. If, over time, this does not occur, it is likely because there is something different in what you were doing – some vital piece of information that is missing.

What You Can Do:

There are three action exercises, which you can put in place immediately, to help you get more of what you want:

1. Determine the Cause & Effect relationships in the areas in which you want improvement or success. Identify the specific things you will need to do in order to get the results that you desire. In this aspect having a through proper understanding of yourself and how you work as a person and a good knowledge of your belief systems will go a long way in assisting you to properly understand and use cause and effect. 

2. Take action! Make the decision to focus on, and do, the things that other successful people have done in those areas. Half the battle is taking action. It is your ability to actually begin that will set you apart from the majority of the population. In some way fake it until you make it. It will follow through. That is the law, the iron law  of human destiny that is!!!!

3. Persevere. If you take action and do the things that others have done, you will eventually get the desired results. Rome was not built in a day and it has taken you a lifetime to get into the position in which you now find yourself. Success takes time, so if it doesn’t seem to be working immediately, don’t give up! Stay focused, analyse your causes to ensure you are doing the right things; tweak your approach if necessary – you will get the desired results!

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There is no mystery to achieving success - it is available to all of us. One need only be aware of, understand and live in accordance with Universal Law! Please read the following articles on this web site in conjunction with this to see what you can do about your life and how to change it. See article on “Quantum Physics” and “Energetic’s of the subconscious mind”.

It is easy to tell which causes will bring good results, and which will bring negative ones. Every good cause will produce positive results. If you put all your heart into your work, you will be paid abundantly for that. If you try to find shortcuts or produce poor results because of your attitude, then you will be poorly paid.

Some people misunderstand the law of cause and effect and cannot realise why they are not successful although they work hard. This is because working hard does not produce any value. It only drains your energy and makes you struggle. That, in turn, produces poor results.

Working hard is the worst way to work. You should enjoy your work and put your heart into it, produce value with love. This is exactly opposite to the hard work and struggle. The more enjoyment, energy and heart you will put into your work, the more successful you will become.

That is why pursuing passion is the best way to live. You will effortlessly create value if you are doing what you love.

Also, if you want to be very successful, you should try to cause positive effects that many people will benefit from. The more people you can benefit from what you create, the more successful you will become.

You will notice that whenever you create something “to the highest good for all”, the less obstacles you will experience. It will be as though you are completely in the flow and everyone is there to help you.

The law of cause and effect is especially clearly seen in money matters. Whenever you spend your money with the scarcity in mind, you will receive money slower or no money at all. Whenever you spend money with faith that more is coming in, the quicker you will receive even more than you spent.

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If you donate money with the hope that your donation will improve someone’s life, you will be returned much more than you have donated.

If someone is treating you unfairly, but you always respond fairly, you will only be rewarded. Maybe not instantly, but later on something will happen in your life that will compensate you for your fairness.

Whereas the person that wronged you will be wronged at some point too. The law of cause and effect makes no exceptions.

Whenever you are about to take some action, try to quickly assess if that action will bring positive or negative effect to your life.

Therefore if you are about to undertake some project, but you feel lazy, you can ask yourself if, working in such state of mind, will produce positive results. This will save you from poor performance.

The more positive actions you take, the more successful your will become. It is better to take less actions, but to make every single action perfect.

If you take many mediocre actions it will result in poor results and no success. The law of cause and effect never fails.

Existence of God

The Cosmological Argument 

This argument or proof proceeds from a consideration of the existence and order of the universe.  This popular  argument for the existence of God is most commonly  known as the cosmological argument. Aristotle, much like a natural scientist, believed that we could learn about our world and the very essence of things within our world through observation. As a marine biologist might observe and catalog certain marine life in an attempt to gain insight into that specific thing's existence, so too did Aristotle observe the physical world around him in order to gain insight into his world. The very term cosmological is a reflection of Aristotle's relying upon sense data and observation. The word logos suggests a study of something while the noun cosmos means order or the way things are. Thus, a cosmological argument for the existence of God will study the order of things or examine why things are the way they are in order to demonstrate the existence of God.

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For Aristotle, the existence of the universe needs an explanation, as it could not have come from nothing.  There needs to be a cause for the universe.  Nothing comes from nothing so since there is something there must have been some other something that is its cause.  Aristotle rules out an infinite progression of causes, so that led to the conclusion that there must be a First Cause.  Likewise with Motion, there must have been a First Mover.

This argument was given support by modern science with the idea of the universe originating in a BIG BANG, a single event from a single point.

Thomas Aquinas offered five somewhat similar arguments using ideas of the first mover, first cause, the sustainer,  the cause of excellence, the source of harmony

 Here is a sample of the pattern:

there exists a series of events

the series of events exists as caused and not as uncaused(necessary)

there must exist the necessary being that is the cause of all contingent being

there must exist the necessary being that is the cause of the whole series of beings

 First Way: The Argument From Motion

Aquinas had Five Proofs for the Existence of God. Let us consider his First argument, the so-called Argument from Motion. Aquinas begins with an observation:

 Of the things we observe, all things have been placed in motion. No thing has placed itself in motion.

 Working from the assumption that if a thing is in motion then it has been caused to be in motion by another thing, Aquinas also notes that an infinite chain of things-in-motion and things-causing-things-to-be-in-motion can not be correct. If an infinite chain or regression existed among things-in-motion and things-causing-things-to-be-in-motion then we could not account for the motion we observe. If we move backwards from the things

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we observe in motion to their cause, and then to that cause of motion within those things that caused motion, and so on, then we could continuing moving backwards ad infinitum. It would be like trying to count all of the points in a line segment, moving from point B to point A. We would never get to point A. Yet point A must exist as we know there is a line segment. Similarly, if the cause-and-effect chain did not have a starting point then we could not account for the motion we observe around us. Since there is motion, the cause and effect chain (accounting for motion) must have had a starting point. We now have a second point:

 The cause and effect relationship among things-being-moved and things-moving must have a starting point. At one point in time, the relationship was set in motion. Thus, there must be a First Cause which set all other things in motion. 

What else can we know about the First Cause? The first cause must have been uncaused. If it were caused by another thing, then we have not resolved the problem of the infinite regression. So, in order to account for the motion that we observe, it is necessary to posit a beginning to the cause and effect relationship underlying the observed motion. It is also necessary to claim that the First Cause has not been caused by some other thing. It is not set in motion by another entity.

 The First Cause is also the Unmoved Mover. The Unmoved Mover is that being whom set all other entities in motion and is the cause of all other beings. For Aquinas, the Unmoved Mover is that which we call God.

For Aquinas the term motion meant not just motion as with billiard balls moving from point A to point B or a thing literally moving from one place to another. Another sense of the term motion is one that appreciates the Aristotelian sense of moving from a state of potentiality towards a state of actuality. When understood in this way, motion reflects the becoming inherent in the world around us. God as First Cause becomes that entity which designed and set in motion all things in their quest to become. In the least, it is a more poetic understanding of motion.

St. Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) was a theologian, Aristotelian scholar, and philosopher. Called the Doctor Angelicus (the Angelic Doctor,) Aquinas is considered one the greatest Christian philosophers to have ever lived. 

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Much of St. Thomas's thought is an attempt to understand Christian orthodoxy in terms of Aristotelian philosophy. His five proofs for the existence of God take "as givens" some of Aristotle's assertions concerning being and the principles of being (the study of being and its principles is known as metaphysics within philosophy). Before analyzing further the first of Aquinas' Five Ways, let us examine some of the Aristotelian underpinnings at work within St. Thomas' philosophy.

 Aristotle and Aquinas also believed in the importance of the senses and sense data within the knowing process. Aquinas once wrote nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses. Those who place priority upon sense data within the knowing process are known as empiricists. Empirical data is that which can be sensed and typically tested. Unlike Anselm, who was a rationalist, Aquinas will not rely on non-empirical evidence (such as the definition of the term "God" or "perfection") to demonstrate God's existence. St. Thomas will observe the physical world around him and, moving from effect to cause, will try try to explain why things are the way they are. He will assert God as the ultimate Cause of all that is. For Aquinas, the assertion of God as prima causa (first cause) is not so much a blind religious belief but a philosophical and theoretical necessity. God as first cause is at the very heart of St. Thomas' Five Ways and his philosophy in general.

 One last notion that is central to St. Thomas' Five Ways is the concept of potentiality and actuality. Aristotle observed that things/substances strive from an incomplete state to a complete state. Things will grow and tend to become as they exist. The more complete a thing is, the better an instance of that thing it is. We have idioms and expressions within our language that reflect this idea. For example, we might say that so-and-so has a lot of potential. We might say that someone is at the peak of their game or that someone is the best at what they do. We might say It just does not get any better than this if we are are having a very enjoyable time. Aristotle alludes to this commonly held intuition when he speaks of organisms moving from a state of potentiality to actuality. When Aquinas speaks of motion within the First Way (the cosmological argument) he is referencing the Aristotelian concepts of potentiality and actuality.

Argument from Contingency

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English theologian and philosopher Samuel Clarke set forth a second variation of the Cosmological Argument, which is considered to be a superior version.  It is called the “Argument from Contingency”.  

Clarke’s “Argument from Contingency”: 

1.     Every being that exists is either contingent or necessary.

2.     Not every being can be contingent.

3.     Therefore, there exists a necessary being on which the contingent beings depend.

4.     A necessary being, on which all contingent things depend, is what we mean by “God”.

5.     Therefore, God exists. 

However, there are several weaknesses in the Cosmological Argument, which make it unable to “prove” the existence of God by itself.  One is that if it is not possible for a person to conceive of an infinite process of causation, without a beginning, how is it possible for the same individual to conceive of a being that is infinite and without beginning?  The idea that causation is not an infinite process is being introduced as a given, without any reasons to show why it could not exist. 

Clarke (1675-1729) has offered a version of the Cosmological Argument, which many philosophers consider superior.  The “Argument from Contingency” examines how every being must be either necessary or contingent.  Since not every being can be contingent, it follow that there must be a necessary being upon which all things depend.  This being is God.  Even though this method of reasoning may be superior to the traditional Cosmological Argument, it is still not without its weaknesses.  One of its weaknesses has been called the “Fallacy of Composition”.  The form of the mistake is this:  Every member of a collection of dependent beings is accounted for by some explanation.  Therefore, the collection of dependent beings is accounted for by one explanation.  This argument will fail in trying to reason that there is only one first cause or one necessary cause, i.e. one God .

There are those who maintain that there is no sufficient reason to believe that there exists a self existent being. 

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Cause and Effects benefactions/ beneficial for lifeWhen there is always a good cause (intention, move) then there will always be good effect. For example if a person will work hard for the cause (motive, intention) of to be the officer then he will surely be the officer so that is the effect of hard working.

Be good and do good.If a person will show generosity, mercy and nice ethics then surely he will get the same so his behaviour has become the cause while the return is effect.

Cause and Effects benefactions/beneficial search out existence of GodHumans are weak in nature so whenever there are the problems in their lives then they try to take the support, help or assistance of anyone even in general life when people face problems then they consult with his close friends or relatives. Relatives in return support them. So when the humans face problems they try to take the support of someone at that time they realize the support of anyone which really support them and solve their problems and when the problems resolve they feel happiness this attract humans towards the existence of God.

In ancient times people used to worship fire, sun, moon, powerful animals and whatnot because they needed the help of someone that is most powerful than other things in that search they find the real helper.

Suspense is an instinct of quality of humans beings so when they realize the presence of sun, moon, fire, water, mountains, humans, animals, insects and other thousands of living beings then they realize that who made them? How a new life come and how and why death comes? Who orders for rain? At that time the presence of any powerful existence felt then the humans find that powerful existence and that is named as God, Bhagwan and many other names.

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