Where The Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, And Naturalism - Plot & Excerpts
Evolutionary psychologists have come up with a number of theories that are wholly incompatible with Christian beliefs: theories purporting to explain altruism in terms of unusual docility and limited rationality, morality as an illusion fobbed off on us by our genes, and religion itself as involving belief that is false, even if, according to some of these theories, adaptive. According to certain theories from historical Biblical criticism, furthermore, the Bible is just another ancient book; Jesus didn’t rise from the dead; miracles don’t and have not occurred. Of course questions can be raised about whether these disciplines are really science, or good science; but let’s set those questions aside for the moment, assuming, perhaps contrary to fact, that they are.1 There is also the following question: suppose there is just one theory—from evolutionary psychology, for example—that is inconsistent with Christian belief, and suppose just a few scientists accept or believe or propose it: does that by itself constitute a science/religion conflict?
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