ABSTRACT
The phrase “social construction of science” denotes the view that scientific knowledge is not autonomous or based on universal principles of rationality but, rather, tied directly to social interests and conditions. Science, in this view, is seen to be solely a human production that does not differ fundamentally from other human endeavors. By relativizing scientific knowledge in this way, social constructionism has had direct implications for the way in which one approaches the study of the relationship between science and religion in that it has forced scholars to stop privileging the scientific point of view over the religious.
