These include various forms of Satanism, such as LaVeyan Satanism as well as Theistic Satanism.

Theistic schools of Hinduism such as Vedanta thus disagree with the Buddhist and Jain views and other Hindu views that karma is merely a law of cause and effect but rather is also dependent on the will of a personal supreme God.

Theistic evolutionists argue that it is inappropriate to use Genesis as a scientific text, since it was written in a pre-scientific age and originally intended for religious instruction ; as such, seemingly chronological aspects of the creation accounts should be thought of in terms of a literary framework.

Theistic evolution holds that the theist's acceptance of evolutionary biology is not fundamentally different from the acceptance of other sciences, such as astronomy or meteorology.

Theistic schools of Hinduism such as Vedanta disagree with the Buddhist views, Jain views and other Hindu views that karma is merely a law of cause and effect but instead additionally hold that karma is mediated by the will of a personal supreme God.

Theistic evolution or evolutionary creation is a concept that asserts that classical religious teachings about God are compatible with the modern scientific understanding about biological evolution.

Theistic evolution is not a scientific theory, but a particular view about how the science of evolution relates to religious belief and interpretation.

Theistic evolution supporters can be seen as one of the groups who reject the conflict thesis regarding the relationship between religion and sciencethat is, they hold that religious teachings about creation and scientific theories of evolution need not contradict.

* Theistic evolution, the general opinion that classical religious teachings about God and creation are compatible with some or all of the modern scientific understanding about biological evolution

Theistic or nontheistic religious naturalism is a basic theological perspective of liberal religion and religious humanism, according to some sources.

* Gavin Basil McGrath, " James Orr's Endorsement of Theistic Evolution ", Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 51. 2 ( June 1999 ): 114-121.

Satanism is a name for a diverse group of religions which regard demons in general and Satan in particular as positive entities, either as real entities to be worshipped ( Theistic Satanism ), or using Satan and other demons as symbols ( LaVeyan Satanism ).

Mozoomdar wrote the first English biography of Ramakrishna, entitled The Hindu Saint in the Theistic Quarterly Review ( 1879 ), which played a vital role in introducing Ramakrishna to Westerners like the German indologist Max Müller.

Unlike Theistic Satanism, LaVeyan Satanism does not involve the literal worship of any being other than the self, but rather uses " Satan " as a symbol of carnality and earthly values, of man's inherent nature, and of a cosmos which Satanists perceive to be permeated and motivated by a force that has been given many names by man over the course of time.

Theistic realism relies on a concept of God which involves that He is real, personal, and acting in the world through mechanistic creationism.

" Islam also has its own school of Evolutionary creationism / Theistic evolutionism, which holds that mainstream scientific analysis of the origin of the universe is supported by the Qur ' an.

In 1904 he founded the Theistic Mission, which met every Sunday.

Theistic evolutionists may believe that creation is not literally a week long process but a process beginning in the time of Genesis and continuing through all of time, including today.

Some of these may be compatible with known scientific facts ( Old Earth Creationism, Theistic Evolution, Progressive Creationism ).

" Theistic " is italicized in both Wang 1987 and Wang 1996.

Satanist groups that appeared after the 1960s are widely diverse, but two major trends are Theistic Satanism and Atheistic Satanism.

Theistic Satanists venerate Satan as a supernatural deity.

" Science in Theistic Contexts: Cognitive Dimensions ," Osiris, 2nd ser., vol.

Theistic explanations for origins implicate one or more supernatural immortal beings as the first cause, although these are often dismissed as God of the gaps-type fallacies or arguments from ignorance.

Sinclair argued that Hawksmoor's churches formed a pattern consistent with the forms of Theistic Satanism.

* McLeod, Mark S. Rationality and Theistic Belief: An Essay on Reformed Epistemology ( Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of Religion ).

Demonolators are not identical to practitioners of Theistic Satanism.

The absolute is the central focus of Hermeticism and therefore it is difficult to assign it a position among the traditional Theistic religions, or along the monotheistic and polytheistic spectrum.

In the Biographia this " Theistic faith " appears in its full development ( see the concluding chapter ), and is especially important as perhaps the nearest approach to Kantian ethics made by original English philosophy.

Theistic realism asserts that science, by relying upon methodological naturalism, demands an a priori adoption of a naturalistic philosophy that wrongly dismisses out of hand any explanation that contains a supernatural cause.

In the Philippines, when the dance craze became a huge hit, one of the country's Christian sects, Iglesia ni Cristo, banned their followers from listening to the song as they said that it is a form of Theistic Satanism.

Theistic evolutionists generally reject the argument from design, but do still maintain belief in the existence of God.

Euronymous believed that LaVeyan Satanism was no real Satanism, and only bands who were Theistic Satanists could be called " black metal " and this belief was adopted by other important members of the Norwegian scene, like Faust of Emperor.

For example, this may include bloggers who have attracted large readerships producing a book based on their websites, books based on Internet memes, instant " celebrities " such as Joe the Plumber, retiring sports figures and in general anyone whom a publisher feels could produce a marketable book.

Major themes include: self-reference in memes, language, art and logic ; discussions of philosophical issues important in cognitive science / AI ; analogies and what makes something similar to something else ( specifically what makes, for example, an uppercase letter ' A ' recognisable as such ); and lengthy discussions of the work of Robert Axelrod on the prisoner's dilemma and the idea of superrationality.

The prepended and superscripted letter v indicates these are not basic memes but value systems which include them.

A meme pool is the sum total of all memes ( transmittable units of cultural ideas, practices, symbols ) present in a given human population.

In spiral dynamics, the term < sup > v </ sup > Meme refers to a core value system, acting as an organizing principle, which expresses itself through memes ( self-propagating ideas, habits, or cultural practices ).

New dialects of slang, such as leet or Lolspeak, develop as ingroup internet memes rather than time savers.

Imitation often involves the copying of an observed behaviour of another individual, but memes may transmit from one individual to another through a copy recorded in an inanimate source, such as a book or a musical score.

Social contagions such as fads, hysteria, copycat crime, and copycat suicide exemplify memes seen as the contagious imitation of ideas.

Observers distinguish the contagious imitation of memes from instinctively contagious phenomena such as yawning and laughing, which they consider innate ( rather than socially learned ) behaviors.

" Blackmore meets such criticism by stating that memes compare with genes in this respect: that while a gene has no particular size, nor can we ascribe every phenotypic feature directly to a particular gene, it has value because it encapsulates that key unit of inherited expression subject to evolutionary pressures.

Clusters of memes, or memeplexes ( also known as meme complexes or as memecomplexes ), such as cultural or political doctrines and systems, may also play a part in the acceptance of new memes.

In his chapter titled " Truth " published in the Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, Dieter Lohmar questions the memeticists ' reduction of the highly complex body of ideas ( such as religion, politics, war, justice, and science itself ) to a putatively one-dimensional series of memes.

He sees memes as an abstraction and such a reduction as failing to produce greater understanding of those ideas.

The highly interconnected, multi-layering of ideas resists memetic simplification to an atomic or molecular form ; as does the fact that each of our lives remains fully enmeshed and involved in such " memes ".

The leveling-off of all such interesting " memes " down to some neutralized molecular " substance " such as " meme-substance " introduces a bias toward " scientism " and abandons the very essence of what makes ideas interesting, richly available, and worth studying.

Proponents of this view ( such as Susan Blackmore and Daniel Dennett ) argue that considering cultural developments from a meme's-eye view — as if memes themselves respond to pressure to maximise their own replication and survival — can lead to useful insights and yield valuable predictions into how culture develops over time.

Aaron Lynch attributed the robustness of religious memes in human culture to the fact that such memes incorporate multiple modes of meme transmission.

Alister McGrath, a Christian theologian, has also commented critically on Dawkins ' analysis, suggesting that " memes have no place in serious scientific reflection ", that there is strong evidence that such ideas are not spread by random processes, but by deliberate intentional actions, that " evolution " of ideas is more Lamarckian than Darwinian, and that there is no evidence ( and certainly none in the article ) that epidemiological models usefully explain the spread of religious ideas.

( Dawkins also attempts to apply evolutionary theory to non-biological entities, such as cultural memes, imagined to be subject to selective forces analogous to those affecting biological entities.

Early instances of such memes included the infamous make money fast spam.

While the gameplay was universally acclaimed, critics were divided on the philosophical nature and execution of the game's storyline, which explores themes such as memes, social engineering, political conspiracies, censorship, and artificial intelligence.

It is strongly suggested that those wishing to list pages as being linked to memes should link to that particular page or use another category than memetics ( such as the subcategories below ).

This " filtering " is largely unconscious and may be influenced — more-or-less in many ways, in societies and in individuals — by biology, cultural constructs including education and language ( such as memes ), life experiences, preferences and mental state, belief systems ( e. g. World view, the Stock Market ), momentary needs, pathology, etc.

One can often encounter this phenomenon with such media as popular music, memes, commercials, and advertising jingles, which by their very nature are continually repeated over a period of weeks or months.