Program description:

Conventional wisdom holds that faith in the God of the Bible has been a relentless opponent of the scientific approach to knowledge. Supposedly, the scientific revolution succeeded only by overcoming theological objections (e.g., the Galileo heresy case). In fact, precisely the opposite is true: the great scientific discoveries of early science were possible only because of a widespread conviction that a reasonable God had created both us and the world and had intended us to grow in our understanding. The great American philosopher of metaphysics and epistemology Alvin Plantinga has argued (in Where the Conflict Really Lies) that our empirical knowledge is possible only on a theistic foundation. In this seminar, we will examine both potential conflicts between faith and science and modes of interdependency and mutual support between them.

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