The conflict thesis is the proposition that there exists a fundamental antagonism between science and religion. Sometimes the conflict thesis is termed the "warfare thesis." Both phrases presumably come from the books History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science, by John William Draper, and A History of the Warfare of Science With Theology in Christendom, by Andrew D. White.

Finding criticisms of the conflict thesis on the web is easy--finding supporting viewpoints time consuming. Hence the motivation to create this webpage. If you have any additions, comments, corrections, etc., please e-mail me at richard.shedenhelm@gmail.com

Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World (Scientific American, 2014).

Michael Aune, "On the Conflict between Science and Religion."

David Barash, "NOMA? No Thanks!" The Chronicle of Higher Education (December 19, 2010).

Andrew Bernstein, "Aristotle versus Religion," The Objective Standard v. 9 no. 1 (Spring 2014).

Andrew Bernstein, "Great Islamic Thinkers versus Islam," The Objective Standard v. 7 no. 4 (Winter 2012-2013).

Andrew Bernstein, "The Tragedy of Theology: How Religion Caused and Extended the Dark Ages--A Critique of Rodney Stark’s The Victory of Reason," The Objective Standard v. 1 no. 4 (Winter 2006-2007).

Stefano Bigliardi, "Harun Yahya’s Islamic Creationism: What It Is and Isn't," Skeptical Inquirer v. 38 no. 1 (January/February 2014).

Russell Blackford, "Are Science and Religion Compatible?"

Russell Blackford, "NOMA No More--The Great Accommodationism Debate."

Russell Blackford, "Stephen Jay Gould on Science and Religion."

Russell Blackford, "A Very Short Introduction to Non-Overlapping Magisteria."

Russell Blackford and Udo Schuklenk, "Are Science and Religion Compatible?" in 50 Great Myths About Atheism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

Richard Carrier, "Christianity Was Not Responsible for Modern Science,” in J. W. Loftus, ed. The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails (Prometheus Books, 2010).

Richard Carrier, "Early Christian Hostility to Science.” [YouTube]

Richard Carrier, "Flynn's Pile of Boners.”

Richard Carrier, "Science and Medieval Christianity.”

Richard Carrier, "Why Science is Better than Religion and Always Has Been.” [YouTube]

Sean Carroll, "Does the Universe Need God?” [Also appeared in J. B. Stump and Alan G. Padgett, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).]

Sean Carroll, "God Is Not a Good Theory.” [YouTube]

Sean Carroll, "Reluctance to Let Go.”

Sean Carroll, "Science and Religion Are Not Compatible.”

Sean Carroll, "What Questions Can Science Answer?”

Sean M. Carroll, "Why (Almost All) Cosmologists are Atheists” [Prepared for God and Physical Cosmology: Russian-Anglo American Conference on Cosmology and Theology, Notre Dame, January/February 2003.]

Sean M. Carroll, Michael Shermer, Dinesh D'Souza, Ian Hutchinson "The Great Debate: 'Has Science Refuted Religion?'” [YouTube]

Edward Cline, "God, Science, and Original Sin ."

Jerry A. Coyne, "Accommodation vs. Appeasement."

Jerry A. Coyne, "Accommodationism from a Physicist."

Jerry A. Coyne, "The Adam-and-Eve War Continues at Bryan College."

Jerry A. Coyne, "Alan Sokal Highlights the Incompatibility of Science and Religion."

Jerry A. Coyne, "The Big Accommodationism Debate: All Relevant Posts."

Jerry A. Coyne, "Blackford 10, NOMA 0."

Jerry A. Coyne, "Catholics Object to Ice Bucket Challenge because ALS Research Uses Human Embryos."

Jerry A. Coyne, "Chris Mooney and Barbara Forrest Love the Faithful More than Me."

Jerry A. Coyne, "A Christian Scientist Tells Us Why Evolution and Religion Are Compatible, but Gets It All Wrong."

Jerry A. Coyne, "Creationist Bill Pending in Ohio Legislature."

Jerry A. Coyne, "Did Christianity (and Other Religions) Promote the Rise of Science?"

Jerry A. Coyne, "Faith Is Not a Virtue: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion." [YouTube]

Jerry A. Coyne, Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible (Viking, 2015).

Jerry A. Coyne, "Gary Gutting Interviews Michael Ruse and Asks Him Why He Coddles Religion."

Jerry A. Coyne, "Intergalactic Jesus," London Review of Books v. 24 no. 9 (May 9, 2002).

Jerry A. Coyne, "Ken Miller Gets Big Catholic Prize."

Jerry A. Coyne, "More Atheist-Bashing at Salon."

Jerry A. Coyne, "More on Mooney and Accommodationism (with a Note on Rosenhouse)."

Jerry A. Coyne, "No Faith in Science: Why the Higgs Boson Is Not Like a Sea of Milk that Sustains the Gods," Slate November 14, 2013.

Jerry A. Coyne, "Religious Medical Nonsense II. African Christians Attribute Ebola to God’s Wrath."

Jerry A. Coyne, "Rosenhouse Explodes Ruse’s Darwinian Explanation of Original Sin and Defense of Theology as Taffy."

Jerry A. Coyne, "Salon Jumps the Shark, Becomes Official Secular Atheist-Bashing Site."

Jerry A. Coyne, "Science and Religion Aren't Friends," USA Today October 11, 2010.

Jerry A. Coyne, "Science, Religion, and Society: The Problem of Evolution in America," Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution v. 66 no. 8 (August 2012).

Jerry A. Coyne, "Seeing and Believing," New Republic February 4, 2009.

Jerry A. Coyne, "Surprise: Pope Francis Believes in Satan and Demons."

Jerry A. Coyne, "Two Debates on Science vs. Faith: Craig vs. Caroll and Craig vs. Krauss."

Jerry A. Coyne, "Why Evolution Is True and Why Many People Still Don't Believe It." [YouTube]

Jerry A. Coyne, "Why Science and Religion Shouldn't Cohabit." [YouTube]

Dan Cray, "God vs. Science, Richard Dawkins and Francis Collins Interviewed by D. Cray."

Richard Dawkins, "The Case Against Faith." [YouTube]

Richard Dawkins, "Dawkins on Religion: Al-Jazeera Special Programme with Richard Dawkins." [YouTube]

Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (Mariner Books, 2008).

Richard Dawkins, "Religion versus Science." [YouTube]

Richard Dawkins, "Snake Oil and Holy Water."

Richard Dawkins, "You Can't Have It Both Ways: Irreconcilable Differences?" The Skeptical Inquirer v. 23 no. 4 (July/August 1999).

Richard Dawkins, "You Can't Have It Both Ways: Irreconcilable Differences?" in Paul Kurtz, ed., Science and Religion: Are They Compatible (Prometheus Books, 2003).

Richard Dawkins and Lawrence M. Krauss, "Should Science Speak to Faith?" [An abridged version appeared in Scientific American July 2007.

Richard Dawkins and Steven Weinberg, "Richard Dawkins and Steven Weinberg in Discussion." [YouTube]

A. C. Dixon and R. A. Torrey, eds., The Fundamentals (Testimony Publishing Company, 1909).

John William Draper, History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (D. Appleton and Company, 1874).

Taner Edis, "Darwin in Mind: ‘Intelligent Design’ Meets Artificial Intelligence," Skeptical Inquirer v. 25 no. 2 (March/April 2001).

Taner Edis, An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam (Prometheus Books, 2007).

Taner Edis, "Modern Science and Conservative Islam: An Uneasy Relationship," Science & Education v. 18 nos. 6-7 (June 2009).

Taner Edis, "Morality and Islam." [YouTube]

Taner Edis, Science and Nonbelief (Prometheus Books, 2007).

Taner Edis, Science and Nonbelief. [Podcast]

Taner Edis, "A World Designed by God: Science and Creationism in Contemporary Islam," in Paul Kurtz, ed., Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?(Prometheus Books, 2003).

Taner Edis and Ehab Abouheif, "Evolution and Islam." [Vimeo]

Taner Edis and Saouma BouJaoude, "Rejecting Materialism: Responses to Modern Science in the Muslim Middle East," in Michael R. Matthews, ed., International Handbook of Research in History, Philosophy and Science Teaching v. 3 (Springer, 2014).

Tom Flynn, "The Science vs. Religion Warfare Thesis." [audio]

Christopher Hitchens, "Does Science Make Belief in God Obsolete." [YouTube]

Christopher Hitchens, "Science vs Religion." [YouTube]

Michael J. Hurd, "Mysticism is Alive in America."

David Kyle Johnson, "Identifying the Conflict between Religion and Science--Part I."

David Kyle Johnson, "Identifying the Conflict between Religion and Science--Part II."

David Kyle Johnson, "Identifying the Conflict between Religion and Science--Part III."

Paul Kurtz, ed., Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? (Prometheus Books, 2003).

Paul Kurtz, "Should Skeptical Inquiry Be Applied to Religion?" Skeptical Inquirer v. 23 no. 4 (July/August 1999).

Paul Kurtz, "Skepticism and Religion (For Good Reason)." [YouTube]

Keith Lockitch, "The Bait and Switch of 'Intelligent Design': Religion Masquerading as Science."

Keith Lockitch, "Creationism in Camouflage: The 'Intelligent Design' Deception." [MP3]

Keith Lockitch, "The Easter Masquerade: Why Religion Must Clash with Science."

Keith Lockitch, "'Intelligent Design' Is about Religion versus Reason."

Keith Lockitch, "'Intelligent Design': Religion Masquerading as Science."

John W. Loftus, ed., The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails (Prometheus Books, 2010).

H. Allen Orr, "Gould on God: Can Religion and Science be Happily Reconciled?" Boston Review October/November 1999.

Jacob Pandian, "The Dangerous Quest for Cooperation between Science and Religion," in Paul Kurtz, ed., Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? (Prometheus Books, 2003).

Steve Paulson, "Does Islam Stand Against Science?" The Chronicle of Higher Education June 19, 2011.

Steve Paulson, "The Religious State of Islamic Science: Turkish-American Physicist Taner Edis Explains Why Science in Muslim Lands Remains Stuck in the Past -- and Why the Golden Age of Mesopotamia Wasn't So Golden After All. "

Michael Peterson and Raymond Vanarragon, eds., Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion (Blackwell, 2005).

Todd Pitock, "Science and Islam in Conflict: In Many Muslim Countries, Science Must Obey the Koran," Discover July 2007.

"Readers Forum on Science and Religion," Skeptical Inquirer v. 23 no. 6 (November/December 1999).

Robert R. Reilly, "The Closing of the Muslim Mind." [YouTube]

Robert R. Reilly, "The Muslim Mind." [YouTube]

Robert R. Reilly, The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Mind (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2010).

Jason Rosenhouse, "Evolution and Original Sin."

Jason Rosenhouse, "Methodological Naturalism."

Jason Rosenhouse, "Mooney on Dover."

Bertrand Russell, Religion and Science (Oxford University Press; 1997 [1935]).

Peter Schwartz, "Reason vs. Faith: In His Recent Encyclical, the Pope Claims to Be a Supporter of Reason, but Is Actually Its Arch-enemy."

Fred Seiler, God Versus Nature: The Conflict Between Religion and Science in History (Epigraph Publishing; 2020).

Fred Seiler, "How Religious Was Isaac Newton?"

Fred Seiler, "The Role of Religion in the Scientific Revolution," The Objective Standard v. 7 no. 3 (Fall 2012).

Fred Seiler, "Science, Religion, and the Rise and Fall of the 'Conflict Thesis'."

Fred Seiler, "Seeking the Truth: A Book by Richard Schlagel."

James Y. Simpson, Landmarks in the Struggle Between Science and Religion (Associated Faculty Press Inc., 1971 [1925]).

George H. Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God (Prometheus Books, 1979 [1973]).

Alan Sokal, "Alan Sokal Speaking in Stockholm." [YouTube]

Alan Sokal, "What is Science and Why Should We Care?" Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture v. 13 nos. 1-2 (Spring 2014).

Alan Sokal, "What is Science and Why Should We Care?--Part I."

Alan Sokal, "What is Science and Why Should We Care?--Part II."

Alan Sokal, "What is Science and Why Should We Care?--Part III."

Victor Stenger, "The Abuse of Physics by Theist and Spiritualists." [YouTube]

Victor Stenger, God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion (Prometheus Books, 2012).

Victor Stenger, "God and Science." [YouTube]

David Van Biema, "God vs. Science," Time November 5, 2006.

Jim Walker, "Mike Flynn Discovers the Dark Ages (A Rebuttal to Mike Flynn's Counter on 'The Myth of Christianity Founding Modern Science and Medicine')."

Jim Walker, "The Myth of Christianity Founding Modern Science and Medicine (and the Hole Left by the Christian Dark Ages)."

Steven Weinberg, "A Designer Universe?"

Steven Weinberg, "Without God," The New York Review of Books September 25, 2008.

Andrew D. White, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (D. Appleton and Company, 1896).

Andrew D. White, "The Warfare of Science I," Popular Science Monthly v. 8 (February 1876).

Andrew D. White, "The Warfare of Science II," Popular Science Monthly v. 8 (March 1876).

John Worrall, "Does Science Discredit Religion?"

John Worrall, “Science Discredits Religion,” in Michael Peterson and Raymond Vanarragon, eds., Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion (Blackwell, 2005).

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