Scientific theology thus parts company with two popular ways of resolving the tension between science and religion, fundamentalist obscurantism and liberal dichotomism.
1RSV. All biblical quotes are from the RSV unless otherwise specified.
2That is not to say that all fundamentalists are obscurantists or that all liberals are dichotomists, but that a common way for liberals to approach the problem of the interaction of science and theology is to create a dichotomy, and a common way for fundamentalists to approach the problem is to attempt to ignore it.