Darwin's doubt or Plantinga's conviction? Some failures in Plantinga's attempt to debunk naturalistic evolution
Darwin's Doubt (DD) - a thesis according to which the probability of the human cognitive mechanism's reliability given non-guided evolution is low - is central to Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism and his suggestion that the adoption of guided evolution thesis is pr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Religious studies
Year: 2025, Volume: 61, Issue: 1, Pages: 194-209 |
| Further subjects: | B
Darwin's doubt
B evolution of cognition B guided evolution B Reliability B naturalistic evolution |
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| Summary: | Darwin's Doubt (DD) - a thesis according to which the probability of the human cognitive mechanism's reliability given non-guided evolution is low - is central to Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism and his suggestion that the adoption of guided evolution thesis is preferable from a theory choice point of view. In this article I'll argue that there are three fundamental failures in Plantinga's argument. First, I argue that Plantinga's argument for DD is question-begging. Second, I point out that this very same argument is not in accordance with the way the evolutionary scientists usually reason. And finally I argue that the replacement of non-guided by guided evolution violates some reasonable belief-revision procedures in the history of science. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412523000562 |
