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288When Faith and Reason Clash: Evolution and the BibleChristian Scholar's Review 21 (1): 8-32. 1991.My question is simple: how shall we Christians deal with apparent conflicts between faith and reason, between what we know as Christians and what we know in other ways, between teaching of the Bible and the teachings of science? As a special case, how shall we deal with apparent conflicts between what the Bible initially seems to tell us about the origin and development of life, and what contemporary science seems to tell us about it? Taken at face value, the Bible seems to teach that God create…Read more
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108Evolution, Neutrality, and Antecedent Probability: a Reply to Van Till and McMullinChristian Scholar's Review 21 (1): 80-109. 1991.First, I'd like to thank Professors Van Till, Pun, and McMullin for their careful and thoughtful replies. There is a deep level of agreement among all four of us; as is customary with replies and replies to replies, however, I shall concentrate on our areas of disagreement. In the cases of Van Till and McMullin, this may give an impression of deeper disagreement than actually exists. In the case of Pun it leaves me with little to say except Yea and Amen; I find no serious disagreement between us…Read more
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71Justification and TheismFaith and Philosophy 4 (4): 403-426. 1987.The question is: how should a theist think of justification or positive epistemic status? The answer I suggest is: a belief B has positive epistemic status for S only if S’s faculties are functioning properly (i.e., functioning in the way God intended them to) in producing B, and only if S’s cognitive environment is sufficiently similar to the one for which her faculties are designed; and under those conditions the more firmly S is inclined to accept B, the more positive epistemic status it has …Read more
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268``An Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism"Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 12 27--48. 1991.Only in rational creatures is there found a likeness of God which counts as an image . . . . As far as a likeness of the divine nature is concerned, rational creatures seem somehow to attain a representation of [that] type in virtue of imitating God not only in this, that he is and lives, but especially in this, that he understands (ST Ia Q.93 a.6).
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67. Die Sünde und ihre kognitiven KonsequenzenIn Gewährleisteter Christlicher Glaube, De Gruyter. pp. 232-282. 2015.
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80The Analytic Theist: An Alvin Plantinga ReaderEerdmans. 1998.This collection of essays and excerpts gives a comprehensive overview of Alvin Plantinga 's seminal work as a Christian philosopher of religion
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89Internalism, Externalism, Defeaters and Arguments for Christian BeliefPhilosophia Christi 3 (2): 379-400. 2001.
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8Dios y el mal: la defensa del teísmo frente al problema del mal según Alvin PlantingaEunsa Editorial Universidad Navarra S.A.. 1996.
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36On Rejecting the Theory of Common Ancestry: A Reply to HaskerPerspectives on Science and Christian Faith 44 258-63. 1992.
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24The Perfect Goodness of GodAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 40 (n/a): 70. 1962.The author criticizes an article by c b martin called "the perfect good." the author shows that martin's argument, That the theologians' argument is a contradiction, Does not hold. (staff)
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67Dawkins and The Alabama InsertThink 1 (2): 7-20. 2002.In issue one, Richard Dawkins attacked the Alabama State Board of Education for pasting into biology schoolbooks an insert that explained that the theory of evolution is an ‘unproven’ and ‘controversial’ theory that ‘some’ scientists accept. The insert also raised a number of important questions that the theory of evolution still struggles to answer. Here, philosopher Alvin Plantinga responds to Dawkins' criticisms of the insert
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194ScienceFaith and Philosophy 13 (3): 368-394. 1996.This paper is a continuation of a discussion with Ernan McMullin; its topic is the question how theists (in particular, Christian theists) should think about modern science---the whole range of modern science, including economics, psychology, sociobiology and so on. Should they follow Augustine in thinking that many large scale scientific projects as well as intellectual projects generally are in the service of one or the other of the civitates? Or should they follow Duhem, who (at least in the …Read more
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Can God break the laws?In Andrew Dole & Andrew Chignell (eds.), God and the Ethics of Belief: New Essays in Philosophy of Religion (Festschrift for Nicholas Wolterstorff), Cambridge University Press. 2005.
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``How to Be an Anti-Realist"Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association 56 47-70. 1982.
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Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Religion |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |