Thomas More Institute

for a more informed ethical engagement in public and professional life

Roger Trigg

Professor
University of Warwick

Are science and religion both concerned with objective reality? The relativism of post-modernism, and the aggressive naturalism of some scientists and philosophers, both challenge this. Relativism undercuts the ability of any discipline to claim truth, while naturalism restricts reality to what is accessible to scientists. A robust metaphysical realism holds that both science and religion can equally refer to objective reality. In this, they can support and inform each other. Religion must absorb the settled findings of science, and science needs the metaphysical underpinning provided by a belief in God as Creator.