So what I thought I would do today is discuss in a formal manner the question of Islam,

is Islam a religion of peace? And if you look at the title of my X-spaces, I basically say,

let's build the nomological network.

Now, some of you may know what that is, others don't.

So please forgive me if you already know what that is,

but I'm going to spend a few minutes explaining what that is.

So as I explain in chapter 7 of the parasitic mind,

a nomological network of cumulative evidence is a very powerful epistemological tool that

tries to amass as much evidence from as many distinct lines of evidence in support of the

veracity of your position. So as I've explained in the past, and here you can go to a paper that I wrote in 2017,

titled on the method of evolutionary psychology and its applicability to consumer research,

it's published in one of the most

prestigious journals in the field, Journal of Marketing Research. And in it, I show three different

examples of how to build a nomological network. One is to demonstrate the biological bases of sex-specific toy preferences,

meaning that the fact that little boys and little girls prefer certain toys is not due to

social construction, but is actually due to universal biological-based causes.

Then the second nomological network that I present in that paper is the men's evolved preference

for the female hourglass figure.

And then the third example that I discuss in that paper is the biological and evolutionary roots of loss aversion.

Why is it that losses loom larger than gains?

It's relevant to something called prospect.

Refuge, prospect theory, which Connon won the Nobel Prize for with his work with Amos Tversky.

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