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VIN PLANTINGA’S WHERE THE CONFLICT REALLY LIES SCIENCE, RELIGION, ANDNATURALISMPlantinga’s book is a semi-popular treatment of. the conflicts, real or perceived, between science and religion, broadly construed. Because these disciplines are so broadly construed, the Christian who is interested in apparent conflicts between science and bib.
Nov 8, 2020 · Plantinga’s argument can be simply formulated as follows: [3] 1. The probability that our cognitive faculties are reliable, given naturalism and evolution, is low. 2. If someone believes in naturalism and evolution and sees that, therefore, the probability of his cognitive faculties’ being reliable is low, then he has a defeater for the ...
Jun 18, 2017 · CRAIG: Alvin Plantinga has been awarded the 2017 Templeton Prize which amounts to something like 1.4 million dollars. I initially thought that this award was being given for work in science and religion, which is the area of interface that the Templeton Foundation is so dedicated to promoting.
Feb 28, 2016 · Like you, I was for years sceptical of the ontological argument. At most it served for me as a model for God, the concept of a greatest conceivable being, which entailed that being’s metaphysical necessity. It wasn’t until I read Alvin Plantinga’s defense of the argument in his The Nature of Necessity (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974) and ...
Robert Adams, "Plantinga on the Problem of Evil," in Alvin Plantinga, p. 232. Cf. William Hasker's demand, "Who or what is it (if anything) that brings it about that these propositions are true?" (William Hasker, "A Refutation of Middle knowledge," Noûs 20 (1986): 547.
Plantinga’s argument can be simply formulated as follows: [1] 1. The probability that our cognitive faculties are reliable, given naturalism and evolution, is low. 2. If someone believes in naturalism and evolution and sees that, therefore, the probability of his cognitive faculties’ being reliable is low, then he has a defeater for the ...
Jan 10, 2011 · Dr. Craig, I have some questions about Reformed Epistemology and your view on the witness of the Holy Spirit as explicated in Question 68. Following the lead of Alvin Plantinga, you try to argue that classical foundationalism is self-refuting because the criterion used by classical foundationalism (
Oct 31, 2011 · According to Plantinga’s model, God warrants to us the great truths of the Gospel by means of the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. Such beliefs are for us properly basic beliefs grounded in (but not inferred from) the witness of the Holy Spirit. Now the point is, such a model may, for all we know be true. Moreover, if Christianity is true ...
Dr. Craig discusses Alvin Plantinga's defense of a time-tested argument by C.S. Lewis.
Premiere among this new crop of philosophers stands Alvin Plantinga of the University of Notre Dame, a sort of latterday Anselm, whom the late J. L. Mackie, perhaps one of the most prominent atheists of our day, has facetiously canonized as "St. Alvin." A few years ago, Plantinga gave a paper entitled, "Two Dozen or so Theistic Arguments," in ...
