Peter Harrison’s 2011 Gifford Lectures, published under the title The Territories of Science and Religion, surely count as single most helpful intervention in field ‘religion science’ since that conversation got seriously underway. Thanks to Harrison, interlocutors could look away from quest for typologies taxonomies towards a scrutiny terms themselves. ‘Religion’ ‘science’, Harrison argued, da...

Scientific creation battles the worldview of naturalism at the level of scientific fact and theory, but crucial battlegrounds are also found in the foundational concepts that shape the method and direction of science. One of these is summarized by the term “naturalism.” This debate is hindered by equivocal terminology, presuppositional inconsistency, and the use of secular premises by some Chri...

Ever since Darwin people have worried about the sceptical implications of evolution. If our minds are products of evolution like those of other animals, why suppose that the beliefs they produce are true, rather than merely useful? We consider this problem for beliefs in three different domains: religion, morality, and commonsense and scientific claims about matters of empirical fact. We identi...

Is there a journal less likely than Modern Theology to devote special issue the natural sciences? When we were in grad school, would have said, “No and I hope they never descend that. You see, does real theology.” Real theology, thought, should always be queen of sciences. We had picked up fads our generation, one such fad was idea that whenever scientists invited theological table, then theolo...

New approaches are needed to reduce disparities in access kidney transplantation. Telemedicine provides an opportunity address inequities care, with many services transitioning virtual platforms during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.1Bashshur R.L. Shannon G.W. Krupinski E.A. et al.National telemedicine initiatives: essential healthcare reform.Telemed J E Health. 2009; 15: 600-...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) causes substantial global morbidity and increases cardiovascular all-cause mortality. Unlike other chronic diseases with established strategies for screening, there has been no consensus on whether health systems governments should prioritize early identification intervention CKD. Guidelines evaluating managing CKD are available but have not universally adopted in t...

In many asthmatics, chronic airway inflammation is driven by IL-4-, IL-5-, and IL-13-producing Th2 cells or ILC2s. Type 2 cytokines promote hallmark features of the disease such as eosinophilia, mucus hypersecretion, bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR), IgE production, susceptibility to exacerbations. However, only half asthmatics have this “type 2-high” signature, 2-low” asthma more associated...

Raters of corporations play an important role in assessing domains ranging from sustainability to corporate governance to best workplaces. Scholars increasingly rely on these ratings to test theories about corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate governance and the influence of stakeholders. Though these raters frequently develop sophisticated methodologies, we find they often diverge i...

Standard internalist approaches to critical thinking insist that critical thinkers maintain conscious, deliberate access to the reasons for their beliefs and actions. A more useful approach is externalist, focusing on the reliability of different types of processes for generating beliefs and decisions under different circumstances. We describe an externalist approach to critical thinking based ...

Two court cases, McLean v. Arkansas (“Arkansas”) in 1980 and Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District et al. (“Dover”) in 2005, showed how decisive philosophy can be when wielding the demarcation argument, as both creation science and intelligent design were denied victories because they were judged to be unscientific based on demarcation arguments. However, since the Arkansas decision a...