웨슬리 웬트워스 씨가 지난 달에 이메일로 알려줘서 이번에 미국 출장을 가면서 사려고 했더니 아마존에는 책이 없다.
읽어야 할 것 같은데 어디서 구하지...
일단 한번 뒤저봐야 겠다.
알빈 플란팅가는 과학과 종교가 양립할수 있다고 보는 입장에 있다. 우주론이나 진화와 같은 과학이 기독교와 모순된다고 보지 않는다.
다니엘 데넷이나 리차드 도킨스처럼 과학이 종교에 비해 우월하고 종교는 없어져야 하는 악인것처럼 보는 견해와는 달리 플란팅가는 프란시스 콜린스와 같이 오히려 과학이 종교을 지지하는 논점들을 던져 줄수 있다는 입장이다.
그렇다고 지적설계론자들처럼 설계의 과학적 증거가 있다고 들이대는 입장은 또한 아니다.
옥스포드 출판사 웹싸이트에 나온 책에 대한 설명을 달아본다.
This book is a long-awaited major statement by a pre-eminent analytic philosopher, Alvin Plantinga, on one of our biggest debates -- the compatibility of science and religion. The last twenty years has seen a cottage industry of books on this divide, but with little consensus emerging. Plantinga, as a top philosopher but also a proponent of the rationality of religious belief, has a unique contribution to make. His theme in this short book is that the conflict between science and theistic religion is actually superficial, and that at a deeper level they are in concord.
Plantinga examines where this conflict is supposed to exist -- evolution, evolutionary psychology, analysis of scripture, scientific study of religion -- as well as claims by Dan Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Philip Kitcher that evolution and theistic belief cannot co-exist. Plantinga makes a case that their arguments are not only inconclusive but that the supposed conflicts themselves are superficial, due to the methodological naturalism used by science. On the other hand, science can actually offer support to theistic doctrines, and Plantinga uses the notion of biological and cosmological "fine-tuning" in support of this idea. Plantinga argues that we might think about arguments in science and religion in a new way -- as different forms of discourse that try to persuade people to look at questions from a perspective such that they can see that something is true. In this way, there is a deep and massive consonance between theism and the scientific enterprise.