In Where the Conflict Really Lies, Alvin Plantinga (distinguished epistemologist, committed Calvinist, and Professor at the University of Notre Dame) provides a long, multifaceted, carefully argued rebuttal of the claim that theistic religion and science are incompatible, followed by a short provocative argument that there is a ‘deep conflict’, but one between naturalism (not religion) and science. Theistic religion is incompatible with naturalism, all versions of which share the claim that there is no such being as God or other ‘supernatural’ beings and that all phenomena are explicable without appeal to supernatural action in the world (ix, 122, 169). Moreover, it is often thought that naturalism (in contemporary formulations of which the theory of evolution plays a pivotal role) is the scientific worldview and inextricably linked with commitment to science, so that incompatibility with naturalism implies incompatibility with science. Plantinga challenges this point of view. Scientific results, he maintains, neither presuppose naturalism (Dennett and Plantinga 2011, 48) nor provide confirmatory support for it (122, 308). He recognizes that scientific research deploys ‘methodological naturalism’—it does not entertain the possibility of supernatural phenomena or causes—but that need not rest on commitment to metaphysical naturalism; where it is deployed, evidence that would be inconvenient for metaphysical naturalism (if there were any) could not be obtained. The greater part of the book is devoted to rebutting that there is deep conflict between science and religion (he focuses almost exclusively on Christianity). While a wide range of well-trodden topics are covered, for example, the possibility of miracles and the nature of possible divine intervention in the world, most attention