Dr Paul Allen

Image via Wikipedia Alvin Plantinga is among the preeminent philosophers of his generation. After a long career, chiefly at Calvin College and the University of Notre Dame (where he is emeritus John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy), Plantinga has formally retired, but he hasn't been idle. In his new book,  Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism  (Oxford University Press), he sheds light on a subject that is often obscured by posturing and superficial polemics. John Wilson, editor of  Books & Culture , spoke with Plantinga about the underlying harmony between scientific and religious accounts of reality. Most of your book is taken up with the proposition that there's superficial conflict but deep concord between theistic religion and science. In certain areas, the right word would be  alleged  conflict. For example, I argue that there's no real conflict between evolutionary theory—that is, the scientific theory of evolution apart fr