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- Title
FALSIFIABILITY AND TRACTION IN THEORIES OF DIVINE ACTION.
- Authors
Jones, Kile
- Abstract
One of the most focused research programs in the science-religion dialogue that has taken place up to the present is the series of volumes published jointly by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences. Originating with the encouragement of Pope John Paul II, this series has produced seven volumes focusing on how divine action can be understood in light of contemporary science. A retrospective volume published in 2008, Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action: Twenty Years of Challenge and Progress, contains articles reviewing the series as a whole. In this article I analyze the series as a whole as well as some of the pivotal problems discussed throughout the series, such as the zero-sum game, scientific “traction,” falsifiability in theories of divine action, and locating special divine action in the physical world.
- Subjects
RELIGION &; science; CATHOLIC Church doctrines; CATHOLIC Church history, 1500-; COUNTERFACTUALS (Logic); CRITICAL realism; IMMANENCE of God; NATURAL theology; EVOLUTION &; Christianity; TRUTHFULNESS &; falsehood
- Publication
Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 2010, Vol 45, Issue 3, p575
- ISSN
0591-2385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01114.x