Religious healing specialists such as shamans often use magic. Evolutionary theories that seek to explain why laypersons find these convincing focus on the origins of magical cognition and belief in supernatural. In two studies, we reframe problem by investigating relationships among ethnomedical specialists, who possess extensive disease can appear “supernatural,” religious specialists. study ...

A Common Faith is arguably one of John Dewey’s least eff ective books. In it, he tries to persuade readers that the best of two epistemologically diff erent worlds can be reconciled in a common faith—one that employs the methods of science with a generously religious attitude. Possibly most of us today believe this cannot be done; that is, the two worlds will remain unreconciled. But perhaps, w...

Medical gas research often involves the study of molecules under extraphysiologic conditions, that is, conditions that do not exist in nature. This "supernatural" nature of medical gas research sometimes produces results that appear to be almost "magic" to those schooled in traditional physiology"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".-Arthur C. Clarke.