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English
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Faith and the Scientific Method
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Converging Paths to Truth : The Summerhays Lectures on Science and Religion
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Provo, UT
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Religious Studies Center, BYU
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One area of persistent tension between science and religion is the relationship between faith and the scientific method. Among practicing scientists, there is a wide variety of opinions on the nature of that relationship. A review of the basic philosophies of the two most opposing schools of thought on the issue is helpful in understanding the controversy. For the sake of convenience I will refer to one extreme as scientific atheism, and the other as scientific theism.