9780199812097-0199812098-Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism

Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism

ISBN-13: 9780199812097
ISBN-10: 0199812098
Edition: 1
Author: Alvin Plantinga
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 376 pages
FREE US shipping
Rent
35 days
from $8.34 USD
FREE shipping on RENTAL RETURNS
Buy

From $17.34

Rent

From $8.34

Book details

ISBN-13: 9780199812097
ISBN-10: 0199812098
Edition: 1
Author: Alvin Plantinga
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 376 pages

Summary

Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism (ISBN-13: 9780199812097 and ISBN-10: 0199812098), written by authors Alvin Plantinga, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Christian Books & Bibles (Science & Religion, Religious Studies, Religious, Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism (Hardcover, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Christian Books & Bibles books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $7.38.

Description

This 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. On the other hand, science can actually offer support to theistic doctrines, and Plantinga uses the notion of biological and cosmological "fine-tuning" in support of this idea. Plantinga argues that we might think about arguments in science and religion in a new way -- as different forms of discourse that try to persuade people to look at questions from a perspective such that they can see that something is true. In this way, there is a deep and massive consonance between theism and the scientific enterprise.

Rate this book Rate this book

We would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book