Top 11 Alvin Plantinga Quotes
#1. Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
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#2. If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable.
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#3. Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.
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#4. There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism.
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#5. Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.
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#6. In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)
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#7. The mere fact that a belief is unpopular at present (or at some other time) is interesting from a sociological point of view but evidentially irrelevant.
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#9. To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.
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#10. Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century.
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#11. The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are not widely shared outside the Christian or theistic community is interesting but fundamentally irrelevant.
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