THE CHALLENGE OF MODERN SCIENCE ON RELIGION TODAY

Forrest says that even stronger conclusions about these two (science and religion) are controversial (45). The view that science can be demarcated from religion in its methodological naturalism is more commonly accepted. Pennock argued that Intelligent Design, in its appeal to supernatural mechanisms, was not methodologically naturalistic, and that methodological naturalism is an essential component of science—though it is not a dogmatic requirement, it flows from reasonable evidential requirements, such as the ability to test theories empirically.