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Where The Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, And NaturalismStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionThis book is a long-awaited major statement by a pre-eminent analytic philosopher, Alvin Plantinga, on one of our biggest debates -- the compatibility of science and religion. The last twenty years has seen a cottage industry of books on this divide, but with little consensus emerging. Plantinga, as a top philosopher but also a proponent of the rationality of religious belief, has a unique contribution to make. His theme in this short book is that the conflict between science and theistic religion is actually superficial, and that at a deeper level they are in concord. Plantinga examines where this conflict is supposed to exist -- evolution, evolutionary psychology, analysis of scripture, scientific study of religion -- as well as claims by Dan Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Philip Kitcher that evolution and theistic belief cannot co-exist. Plantinga makes a case that their arguments are not only inconclusive but that the supposed conflicts themselves are superficial, due to the methodological naturalism used by science. Table of contentsCHAPTER 1 EVOLUTION AND CHRISTIAN BELIEF (1) ; CHAPTER 2 EVOLUTION AND CHRISTIAN BELIEF (2) ; CHAPTER 3 DIVINE ACTION IN THE WORLD ; CHAPTER 4 THE NEW PICTURE ; CHAP. 5 EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY AND SCRIPTURE SCHOLARSHIP ; CHAPTER 6 DEFEATERS? ; CHAPTER 7 FINE-TUNING ; CHAPTER 8 DESIGN DISCOURSE ; CHAPTER 9 DEEP CONCORD ; CHAPTER 10 DEEP CONFLICT |