PHL-206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Stephen Jay Gould, John Polkinghorne, Richard Dawkins
4 Oct 2016
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Believes that religion and science are completely separate parts of human inquiry. Says that there is no real con ict between religion and science: however they share a border that has many complex issues and interactions. The catholic church values science as no threat to religion. The net of : science: empirical realm, religion: questions of moral meaning / value. Generally accepts noma if catholics accept the divine infusion of the soul. Argues that religion and science con ict and science wins. Believes that religions makes many factual claims that science discredits and therefore science is correct. Argues that evolution isn"t compatible with theistic belief: theism implies god guided evolution. Argues that theism con icts with evolution when philosophical naturalism is involved because it claims that evolution is unguided. Argues that naturalism is incompatible with evolution because they cant be. Is a mathematical physicist and an anglican priest.
