Alvin Plantinga
Auteur de God, Freedom, and Evil
A propos de l'auteur
Alvin Plantinga is John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
Crédit image: Jonathunder @ WP
Œuvres de Alvin Plantinga
God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God (Cornell Paperbacks) (1967) 255 exemplaires
Two (or More) Kinds of Scripture Scholarship 2 exemplaires
Conselhos aos filósofos cristãos 1 exemplaire
The ontological argument from St. Anselm to contemporary philosophers; with an introduction by Richard Taylor. 1 exemplaire
Methodological Naturalism? 1 exemplaire
Reason and Belief in God 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Philosophers Who Believe: The Spiritual Journeys of 11 Leading Thinkers (1993) — Contributeur — 244 exemplaires
The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion (2009) — Contributeur — 37 exemplaires
Rationality, Religious Belief, and Moral Commitment: New Essays in the Philosophy of Religion (1986) — Contributeur — 28 exemplaires
Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology: Volume 2: Providence, Scripture, and Resurrection (2009) — Contributeur — 18 exemplaires
Christian Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century: Prospects and Perils (2014) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
Journal of the American Academy of Religion: Fall 1989, Volume 57, Number 3 (1989) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Plantinga, Alvin Carl
- Date de naissance
- 1932-11-15
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
South Bend, Indiana, USA
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA - Études
- Yale University (PhD|1958)
University of Michigan
Calvin College - Professions
- professor
philosopher - Relations
- Plantinga, Cornelius (brother)
Plantinga, Leon (brother)
Jellema, William Harry (mentor)
Frankena, William K. (mentor)
Alston, William P. (mentor)
Wolterstorff, Nicholas (friend) - Organisations
- Reformed Church in America
University of Notre Dame
Calvin College
Wayne State University
American Philosophical Association
Society of Christian Philosophers - Prix et distinctions
- Gifford Lecturers (1987)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1971-1972)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Membres
Discussions
Plantinga Reviews Sam Harris's Book à Let's Talk Religion (Janvier 2013)
Plantinga's defence of religion à Let's Talk Religion (Septembre 2012)
Critiques
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Prix et récompenses
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- 30
- Aussi par
- 21
- Membres
- 3,324
- Popularité
- #7,697
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 22
- ISBN
- 74
- Langues
- 8
- Favoris
- 7
Plantinga accepts the story of evolution as true. That's his mistake. Since he is also a Christian he now has to rationalize his alleged belief in the Bible with his belief in evolution and the deep time supposedly needed to make it work. He does this with the notion of evolution being "guided" by some god giving the atheistic tale a theistic sugar-coating.
I will admit that philosophically some god could have guided evolution. That is, you could use that as an axiom grounding a philosophical fantasy land. However, no matter what some hypothetical god might have done, given the Bible, the Christian God did nothing of the sort. Just read Genesis.
What Plantinga's book shows is the success of evolution as an anti-theistic propaganda device. Even people professionally interested in analytic rationality, like him, have fallen for it.
Evolution is not science. There is no real scientific mechanism that takes us from nothing to something or from something to life -- or from pond scum to human beings.
It is like building a house of cards. The builder is a creator, a human being. The house falls under naturalistic processes identified by real scientists as gravity with a gust of wind perhaps coming through the door. No matter how much time you give those non-creative, mindless gusts of wind or gravity hoping they will one day go backwards and build the house of cards, they never will -- never.
However, that is precisely what evolution wants you to believe is possible. And that is what Plantinga is sugar-coating in this book with his deception that evolution could be "guided". Why would any self-respecting God guide naturalistic processes that do not exist?… (plus d'informations)