Murphy, "Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning," 68. Note that without careful attention to Murphy’s modification, the notion of ‘prediction’ might seem to undercut superficially the applicability of Lakatos to theology. See for example Polkinghorne, The faith of a physicist, 49. and Niels Henrik Gregersen, "A Contextual-Coherence Theory for the Theology-Science Dialogue," in Retinking Theology and Science: Six Models for the Current Dialogue, ed. Niels Henrik and J. Wentzel van Huyssteen Gregersen (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998), 205-12, esp. 208-09. For a substantive critique of the claim that discernment can yield novel facts see Drees, Religion, Science and Naturalism, 143-44.