approach for theistic evolutionists who want to gain a hearing in the dialogue process. In sum, the fundamental issue in the creation-evolution controversy is this: How much of the acceptance of evolution—theistic or naturalistic—is merely the result of accepting scientism and materialistic, naturalistic philosophical assumptions and how much is really justified by the empirical evidence and relevant arguments? If the rules of science (e.g., methodological naturalism) and the scientific evidence
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