supernatural agent
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supernatural
adjective
uk/ˌsuː.pəˈnætʃ.ər.əl/us/ˌsuː.pɚˈnætʃ.ɚ.əl/
caused by forces that cannot be explained ...
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agent
noun[C]
uk/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/us/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/
a person who acts for or ...
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(Definition ofsupernaturalandagentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For example, the unintentional breaking of a mirror may have an effect on thesupernaturalagentresponsible for causing natural agents bad luck. 13.
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Finally,supernaturalagentconcepts tend to be emotionally powerful because they trigger evolutionary survival templates.
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Why is it necessary, and how it is possible, to validate belief insupernaturalagentconcepts that are logically and factually inscrutable?
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Supernaturalagentconcepts may only be endorsed if there is empirical evidence of their behaviors in the natural environment.
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Why are somesupernaturalagentconcepts inherently better candidates for cultural selection than others?
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Clarke believes that in order for an event to qualify as a miracle asupernaturalagentmust intend it.
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I suggest that one may, without any prior belief in the existence of such supernatural agents, reasonably come to believe that one has witnessed miracles.
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Probably the main criterion used by anthropologists and others for calling some practice or belief religious is the role that supernatural agents play in it.
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Why does this so frequently take the form of supernatural agents?
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Thinking about supernatural agents certainly activates such off-line capacities.
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They should be defined as signs of particular volitions of the deity or of other supernatural agents.
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This question presupposes that we have a notion of religion that is (1) well enough defined, and (2) characterized independently of that of supernatural agents.
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In sum, supernatural agents are readily conjured up because natural selection has trip-wired cognitive schema for agency detection in the face of uncertainty.
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Supernatural agents (or their natural proxies) perform miracles, and performances are intentional activities.
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On this interpretation, the event is an intended outcome of a supernatural agent's intervention in the natural world, again a miracle on my view.
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Religion exploits only ordinary cognitive processes to passionately display costly devotion to counterintuitive worlds governed by supernatural agents.
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They have religious significance because they are instrumental to the plans of supernatural agents, as interpreted by natural agents.
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Dennett's working definition of religions is: social systems whose participants avow belief in asupernaturalagentor agents whose approval is to be sought.
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In the control conditions, the correlations between religious identification and belief in culturally alien supernatural agents were no different from zero.
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In contrast, intelligent design is fundamentally unscientific; it can not be tested as scientific theory because its central conclusion is based on belief in the intervention of asupernaturalagent.
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