A new look at the science-and-religion dialogue

Zygon

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 555-564

  Lawson, E Thomas ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive science of religion; Cognitive science of science; Common sense reasoning; Creationism; Evolutionary psychology; Folk biology; Folk physics; Folk psychology; Folk science; Off line reasoning; On line reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845414864     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2005.00687.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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