Category Archives: Science and Christianity

In a recent article in the journal Theology and Science, David Glass and Mark McCartney explore the claim that science can explain away God. The article entitled ‘Explaining and Explaining Away in Science and Religion’ (available for download here or from the publisher’s website here) explores the concept of explaining away using probability theory, identifies key questions to determine whether explaining away occurs in a given case, and then applies this approach to three case studies: evolution and design; fine-tuning; evolutionary accounts of religious belief.