If we don't know that there is such a person as God, we don't know the first thing (the most important thing) about ourselves, each other and our world. This is because the most important truths about us and them,… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable. — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
But lack of evidence, if indeed evidence is lacking, is no grounds for atheism. No one thinks there is good evidence for the proposition… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
Suppose we concede that if I had been born of Muslim parents in Morocco rather than Christian parents in Michigan, my beliefs would be… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
If we don't know that there is such a person as God, we don't know the first thing (the most important thing) about ourselves,… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
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… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions. — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image