Sir, Pointing out the obvious (i.e., that seeking homeopathic treatment for cancer prior to early conventional diagnosis could be dangerous, and claiming efficacy for homeopathy’s ultra-highly diluted remedies runs counter to Avogadro’s hypothesis) does not exonerate Dr. Sagar’s editorial of grossly misrepresenting the Memory of Water (MoW) hypothesis 1. This compounds an unwarranted slur not o...

Intelligent Design Theory (ID) has been much maligned recently as Neo-Creationist pseudoscience. This paper looks briefly at the common arguments used against ID, including arguments from methodological naturalism (MN), falsifiability, productivity, and religious fundamentalism. Ultimately it goes on to explain why the theory could be beneficial to our society today and suggests a need for a me...

Article history: Received 31 May 2011 Received in revised form 15 July 2011 Accepted 13 August 2011 Available online 3 September 2011 High levels of religiosity have been linked to lower levels of intelligence in a number of recent studies. These results have generated both controversy and theoretical interest. Here in a large sample of US adults we address several issues that restricted the ge...

It can be creepy to notice that something human-looking is not real. But can sensitivity to this phenomenon, known as the uncanny valley, be predicted from superficially unrelated traits? Based on results from at least 489 participants, this study examines the relation between nine theoretically motivated trait indices and uncanny valley sensitivity, operationalized as increased eerie ratings a...

Jones & Love (J&L) suggest that Bayesian approaches to the explanation of human behavior should be constrained by mechanistic theories. We argue that their proposal misconstrues the relation between process models, such as the Bayesian model, and mechanisms. While mechanistic theories can answer specific issues that arise from the study of processes, one cannot expect them to provide constraints

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Fundamentalism or Tradition: Christianity after Secularism, edited by Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demcaopouos. Volume 17 of Orthodox Contemporary Thought. Series Editors Ashley M. Purport. Fordham University Press, 2020. 275pp. Pb, $32.99. ISBN-13: 9780823285785.

There has been a rising Islamic fundamentalism, and intolerance cases in contemporary Indonesia. The fundamentalism problem Indonesia particularly points to the Wahhābi for its puritanical ideology as root of cases. This article aims analyse Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) responses towards group. Being forefront struggle against fundamentalist groups post-New Orde...