![]() ![]() Plantinga said there is great concord between Christian belief and science on the issue of God’s divine action in the world. ![]() “Another source of the continuing debate is the mistaken claim on the part of such writers as Dawkins that the scientific theory implies that the living world and human beings in particular have not been designed and created by God.” “Dawkins utterly fails to show that the facts of evolution reveal a universe without design,” Plantinga said. From there, scientists in the mold of Dawkins reject the possibility of Christianity and its supernatural worldview, Plantinga said. Plantinga is the author of numerous books, including God, Freedom and Evil, The Nature of Necessity and Warranted Christian Belief.Įvolutionary biologists such as Richard Dawkins, an atheist and author of the recent book The God Delusion, use faulty arguments to show that the biological theory of evolution is incompatible with theism, Plantinga said. ![]() ![]() He was the featured speaker for the annual Norton Lectures Oct. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Science and religion should not be incompatible, but the two are often at odds because science falsely demands a purely naturalistic universe, renowned Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga told students at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary on Oct. ![]()
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