Where the Conflict Really Lies
Science, Religion, and Naturalism
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2011
304 pages
978-0-19-981210-3 (ISBN)
Description
In this long-awaited book, pre-eminent analytical philosopher Alvin Plantinga argues that the conflict between science and theistic religion is actually superficial, and that at a deeper level they are in concord.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I: ALLEGED CONFLICT
- 1 Evolution and Christian Belief (1)
- I: Preliminaries
- II: Dawkins
- 2 Evolution and Christian Belief (2)
- I: Dennett 's Argument
- II: Draper's Argument
- III: Why Do People Doubt Evolution?
- IV: Kitcher's "Enlightenment Case"
- 3 Divine Action in the World: The Old Picture
- I: The Problem
- II: The Old Picture
- 4 The New Picture
- I: Quantum Mechanics
- II: What is the Problem with "Intervention"?
- III: What is Intervention?
- IV: Intervention and Divine Action at the Quantum Level
- V: A Couple of Other Alleged Conflicts
- PART II: SUPERFICIAL CONFLICT
- 5 Evolutionary Psychology and Scripture Scholarship
- I: Evolutionary Psychology
- II: Evolutionary Psychology and Religion
- III: Historical Biblical Criticism
- 6 Defeaters?
- I: Defeaters and Their Nature
- II: Evidence Base
- III: Methodological Naturalism
- IV: Is Simonian Science a Defeater for Christian Belief?
- V: Faith and Reason
- VI: Can Religious Beliefs be Defeated?
- VII: The Reduction Test
- PART III: CONCORD
- 7 Fine-Tuning
- I: Fine-Tuning
- II: Objections
- 8 Design Discourse
- I: Michael Behe and Biological Arguments
- II: Perceiving Design?
- III: Design Argument vs. Design Discourse
- IV: The Difference it Makes
- 9 Deep Concord: Christian Theism and the Deep Roots of Science
- I: Science and the Divine Image
- II: Reliability and Regularity
- III: Law
- IV: Mathematics
- V: Induction and Learning from Experience
- VI: Simplicity and Other Theoretical Virtues
- VII: Contingency and Science as Empirical
- PART IV: DEEP CONFLICT
- 10 The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism
- I: Superficial Concord
- II: Deep Conflict
- III: The Argument
- IV: The First Premise: Darwin's Doubt
- V: The Argument for Premise (1)
- VI: The Remaining Premises
- VII: Two Concluding Comments
- Index
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