The conflict model regarding science and faith proposes that modern science and faith are incompatible as they are in the 21st century (Mikael Stenmark). Promulgators of the model, including Richard Dawkins, Francis Crick, Edward O. Wilson, and others, in various ways, would argue that science and religion are antithetical in terms of how they approach truth and how they achieve and determine their ultimate goals (Mikael Stenmark). Scientific materialism and religious literalism are the two extreme viewpoints on opposite sides of the spectrum for this model (Mikael Stenmark).
