Due to the gradual revelation of the qur‟ānic verses in line with the events of the prophethood of Prophet Muḥammad (s) era, the reports of the battles of early days of Islam are reflected in some verses, and in some others Jihād and fighting against disbelievers has been emphasized. This has been used as a pretext by some to unintentionally or purposively introduce the Qur‟ān as a book that in...

The present investigation tested the hypothesis that, as an aspect of schizotypal thinking, the formation of paranormal beliefs was related to spreading activation characteristics within semantic networks. From a larger student population (n = 117) prescreened for paranormal belief, 12 strong believers and 12 strong disbelievers (all women) were invited for a lateralized semantic priming task w...

In Experiment 1, participants took part in a fake seance. An actor suggested that a table was levitating when, in fact, it remained stationary. After the seance, approximately one third of participants incorrectly reported that the table had moved. Results also showed a significant relationship between the reported movement of the table and belief in the paranormal, with a greater percentage of...

one of the issues disagreed among the islamic jurists is the possibility of the actualization of justice among the people of the scripture. the renowned majority of the jurists believe in the non-actualization of justice among the disbelievers in general. this article, at first, points out the evidences of the renowned majority of the jurists on the non-actualization of justice among the people...

DEEP BLUE’s victoryoverKasparov has confirmedtheideas of thegenuineartificialintelligence researchers, but – and that is more important – it has also opened the eyes of the disbelievers. The latter group is now given to understand that (i) scientific progress in mimicking human chess performances can go as far as outperforming the World Champion, and that (ii) progress in one domain may be tran...

Abstract This paper argues that the possibility of revealing counterfactuals creaturely freedom to agents in possible worlds forming part God’s natural knowledge poses a new problem for Molinism. best comes light when considering phenomenon stubbornness, i.e., conscious refusal fulfilling providential plan revealed and intended us by another agent. The reason why this has gone unnoticed is usua...