We provide evidence that religious skeptics, as compared to believers, are both more reflective and effective in logical reasoning tasks. While recent studies have reported a negative association between an analytic cognitive style and religiosity, they focused exclusively on accuracy, making it difficult to specify potential underlying cognitive mechanisms. The present study extends the previo...

the main purpose of this research is to explain the elements and characteristics of religious education curriculum based on the task-oriented approach. to achieve this purpose, frankena`s model for analyzing a normative philosophy; deductive method was used. based on the results, the task-oriented the ultimate goal of religious education and then ten target interface for religious education wer...

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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...

The science of the word and theology considered as expertise in area of concern of Islam religion in which it discusses about religious principle, approach and worldview based on rational and narrative reasoning and answer to doubts that pose in this area; in Christianity and in general through all monotheism religions, it could be possible to use this method for religious reasoning, it could b...

Individual differences in reflectiveness have been found to predict belief in God. We hypothesize that this association may be due to a broader inclination for intuitive thinkers to endorse teleological explanations. In support of our hypothesis, we find that scientifically unfounded teleological explanations are more likely to be endorsed by intuitive compared to analytical thinkers, and that ...

A Hierarchical Model-Based Reasoning Approach for Fault Diagnosis in MultiPlatform Space Systems Amitabh Barua, Ph.D. Concordia University, 2010 Health monitoring and fault diagnosis in traditional single spacecraft missions are mostly accomplished by human operators on ground through around-the-clock monitoring and trend analysis on huge amount of telemetry data. Future multiplatform space mis...