{"product_id":"where-the-conflict-really-lies-science-religion-and-naturalism-9780199812097","title":"Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science  Religion  and Naturalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666171125813,"sku":"ByrdShop_0199812098","price":70.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780199812097.jpg?v=1782421545","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/where-the-conflict-really-lies-science-religion-and-naturalism-9780199812097","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}