Supernatural Belief in ‘Scientific’ Worldviews?: Investigating Science-oriented Finns’ Explanations for Origins, Death and Suffering
A ‘scientific worldview’ is commonly seen as contradictory to belief in supernatural forces, and there is little research on the supernatural beliefs of individuals who identify with science. In this article, we investigate the supernatural explanations of science-oriented individuals in domains of...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Brill
2024
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Journal of cognition and culture
Год: 2024, Том: 24, Выпуск: 1/2, Страницы: 1-34 |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Belief in Science
B Science and religion B Finland B explanatory coexistence B Supernatural B causal explanation |
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| Итог: | A ‘scientific worldview’ is commonly seen as contradictory to belief in supernatural forces, and there is little research on the supernatural beliefs of individuals who identify with science. In this article, we investigate the supernatural explanations of science-oriented individuals in domains of fundamental concern (suffering, death, and origins), and how supernatural causality is reconciled with belief in science. The open-ended responses of 387 Finns were analysed. The results show that science-oriented Finns endorsed both religion-related and more secular supernatural beliefs (such as belief in evolution as a purposeful process). Following the coexistence model, science-oriented Finns applied synthetic and target-dependent reasoning. In addition, many who invoked supernatural explanations integrated supernatural causality with science. Two forms of integrated reasoning were found: 1) supernatural agency as the ultimate cause and scientific theory as the proximate cause, and 2) a similarity-based heuristic, as seen in afterlife beliefs appealing to the law of conservation of energy. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5373 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Journal of cognition and culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685373-12340181 |