ABSTRACT
In the first chapter we considered the charge that modern science, especially the natural or physical sciences, has demonstrated that the contents of philosophical theology are unacceptable. For some of the philosophers and scientists in Chapter 1, “God” is too mysterious or too transcendent to be the object of philosophical concern. In reply, we argued that the practice of science itself gives us very good reason to resist proposals of reduction and elimination that would sweep away many of the things that we appear to know experientially. We also argued that our very concept of what is physical is problematic and incomplete, and thus it does not undermine theism and other concepts of God. And at the end of the chapter we suggested that philosophical theology may have resources to bolster and offer a foundation for the confidence that we have in science.
