Abstract
Should the Christian community engage in Christian science – doing
science starting from the standpoint of the Christian evidence base?
Plantinga asks this question, and I argue that the answer is ‘yes’.
Moreover, this is an answer that both Christians and atheists can agree
upon. Scientific progress should not be shackled by methodological
naturalism; instead we need an ecumenical approach to science, which
will allow for various high-level research programmes to count as science
(including Christian science). If one does science by giving scientific
arguments for or against such research programmes, one will fulfil the
goal of having science be objective, open, and universal, not constrained
by a methodology that favours the naturalistic worldview.