Science vs. Religion: Where is the real conflict?

Science vs. Religion: Where is the real conflict?
seminar of the group Science, Reason and Faith.
Enrique Moros. Pamplona, October 25, 2022.

Enrique Moros, is Full Professor at the Ecclesiastical School of Philosophy of the University of Navarra where he has been teaching since 1994 and has supervised about twenty doctoral thesis . He has also been director of research and director of programs of study at the same School. His current lines of research are: Contemporary analytical Philosophy and demonstrations of the existence of God.

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Where is the real conflict? This is the title of Alvin Plantinga's book on the relationship between science and faith. According to the American philosopher there is an apparent conflict between faith and evolutionism. But this is a mere appearance and not a real conflict. There is also a superficial conflict and a hasty agreement to resolve this conflict, which is called " designspeech ". But the real conflict, what Plantinga calls the real conflict between science and faith, is provoked by a surprise guest: naturalism. This author argues that naturalism is incompatible with scientific rationality and that, therefore, it must be discarded in order to achieve a coherent scientific worldview. Finally, there is a profound agreement between science and faith that Plantinga develops in a similar way to what Mariano Artigas exposed in The Mind of the Universe.