ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the positive and negative variations to topical natural theology in turn. Scientific atheology offers philosophical responses to theological claims that certain areas of scientific knowledge indicate that a god is real. Religions expect miracles to have godly causes, and theology infers godly responsibility for miracles. The theological short-cut of labeling curious matters as "miracles" and then resting content with that made-up "evidence" for god is far more dogmatic than science's honest treatment of anomalies. The chapter discusses theological arguments grounded in science's evidential and theoretical gaps. Scientific biology is a discipline enlarging its theoretical understanding of organic life. If natural theology relies on its preferred interpretation of science to support god's existence, that sort of natural theology is two interpretative stages apart from nature. With interpretative communities in charge of their own evaluations, Christians can be confident that a Christian natural theology yields an interpretation of science compatible with Christianity.
