Read Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism Online
Authors: Alvin Plantinga
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Campbell, George Douglas, 246n
Cantor, Georg, 289
Carr, Brandon, 194–195
Carroll, Sean, 234n
Carter, Brandon, 195n
Chance hypothesis, 198–199, 204, 232
Causal closure, xii, 70–73, 78–90, 92, 94, 96, 99, 105, 108, 118, 119n, 130, 158, 298
Chance, 11, 16n, 29, 65, 67, 98n, 198–199, 204, 205–206, 232, 272
Christian creeds, 8
Christianity, 4–5, 8, 11–12, 32, 41–49, 57, 58–60, 65–68, 119–121, 140, 144n, 149–152, 154–156, 164, 168, 173–174, 177–178, 268–269, 272–274
Chomsky, Noam, 269–270
Churchland, Patricia, 315–316, 327
Churchland, Paul, 345n
Clark, Kelly, xv–xvi, 140n
Clarke, Samuel, 274
Classical physics, 77–78, 89, 92
Clayton, Philip, 74–75, 97–98, 105, 111, 114
Coarse-tuning arguments, 211
Cognitive faculties, xiv, 140, 156, 244, 269–271, 285, 286, 295, 311–317, 326, 328, 325–350
reliability of, xiv, 269–271, 285, 286, 295, 311–317, 326, 325–350.
See also
reformed epistemology
Collapse interpretations (of quantum mechanics), 115–116, 119n, 276n
Collins, John, 158n, 159n
Collins, Robin, xv, 78n, 197–198, 208, 211n, 218, 262, 332
Common ancestry thesis, 9, 41n, 55
Complete Darwinian history, 15
Completeness of physics, 77, 86
Complexity of God, 26–30
Conditionalization problem, 343, 347
Consequence argument, 88–89
Conservation laws, xiii, 76, 78, 119n
Consilience, 297
Contingency of creation, 281, 299–302
Copenhagen interpretation (of Quantum Mechanics), 96, 114–115
location problem for, 115
measurement problem for, 114–115
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 185–186, 266
Copernican Revolution, 6n
Cosmological argument, 41, 42
Cosmological constants, 194–199, 212
fine-tuning of, 194–199
Cosmology, 121, 194
Cotes, Roger, 266, 275, 302
Countable additivity, 206–211
Counterfactuals, 16n, 261, 338–339
Counterpossibles, 338–339
Coyne, Jerry, 234
Craig, William Lane, 42–43, 95, 179n, 197
Creationism, 10, 144n.
See also
young earth creationism
Crick, Sir Frances, 257, 260–262, 322–323
Crisp, Tom, xv, 152n, 348n
Curve fitting problem, 297–298
Danielson, Dennis R., 6n
Darwin, Charles, 7–9, 12, 14, 23, 56–57, 61, 228, 245–246, 252–254, 308, 316
Darwin’s doubt, 316–317
Darwinian explanation(s).
See
explanation, Darwinian
Darwinism, 9–11, 26–28, 38, 55–56, 130, 226, 240, 254, 259
Data model, 171–172
Davies, Paul, 196
Davis, Stephen, 179n
Dawkins, Richard, x, 7, 8, 13–30, 33, 37, 39, 40–41, 45n, 49, 52, 54, 55, 75, 137, 200n, 234, 252–253, 282, 283n, 307n, 308–309, 319
blind watchmaker argument, 13–30
Ultimate Boeing 747 argument, 28–30
Defeat
of rationality.
See
rationality defeaters
reduction test for, the.
See
reduction test, the
Defeater, xiii, xiv, 60, 120, 125, 130, 161, 164–167, 174–178, 183–190, 249–262, 314, 339–350
for basic beliefs, 249–250, 260, 341–342
partial, 252, 254n, 256, 258–260, 262
rebutting, 165, 251, 252–254, 258
undercutting, 165, 252, 254–258
Defeater-defeater, 345
Defeater-deflector, 346–348
Dennett, Daniel, x, 7–8, 30, 31–41, 212n, 253, 282, 283n, 310n, 318
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
, 7, 13, 31–49, 52, 54, 55, 138
Denton, Michael, 198n
Descartes, René, 43, 66–67, 89, 249n, 314, 318, 342n
Descent with modification, 9, 11, 33–34, 41n, 55, 56
Design argument, 42, 197, 219–224
Design beliefs, 244–248, 248–264
Design discourse, 247–248, 251–264
Design space, 227, 255
De Sousa, Ronald, 43–44
Determinism, 16n, 74, 80–83, 85, 88–89, 89–90, 94, 105, 110, 114–115, 119
Dirac, Paul, 285–286
Divine Action Project (DAP), 97–108, 110–114
Divine collapse causation (DCC), 116–121
Divine concurrence, 67, 72
Divine conservation, 66, 67n, 68, 79, 97, 108, 109n, 110, 111, 112, 113, 116, 281
Divine discourse, 153, 155, 156, 173
Dover trial, 170
Drake, Stillman, 7n
Draper, Paul, 31, 49–52, 219–232, 239–240, 244–245, 258, 310n
evolutionary argument against theism, 49–52
on Paley’s design argument, 239–240, 244–245
response to Behe, 219–232, 258
Dualism, 67n, 78, 89n, 119n, 120n, 318, 339
Duhem, Pierre, 159
Duke of Argyle, Eighth.
See
Campbell, George Douglas
Earman, John, 85n, 95
Eddington, Arthur, 202, 204
Eddy, Mary Baker, 190
Edwards, Jonathan, 43–44, 66–67, 68, 152
Einstein, Albert, 267, 275, 297
Elkana, Y., 76n
Ellis, George, 99–102, 114n
Enlightenment, the, 47, 69, 70n, 73, 155
Enlightenment case against supernaturalism, 60–62
Epistemology, 44–47, 164–168, 259–261
Essential properties, 66, 215–216, 217–218, 289–290
Euclid, 250
Evidence, xiii, 24, 29, 33, 41n, 42–43, 49–52, 118, 121, 122–124, 150, 159–160, 167–168, 172–177, 180–183, 183–186, 186–190, 200, 205, 219–220, 296–298, 340–341
Evidence base, xiii, 167–168, 172–177, 180–183, 183–186, 186–190
Evolution, xii, 7–30, 33–41, 49–52, 53–54, 55–58, 116, 129, 190, 226–234, 252–264, 270–271, 286–287, 308–309, 309–310
guided vs. unguided, 12, 14, 16–17, 34–35, 38–41, 116, 129, 308–309
how to think of, 8–10, 55–58
problem of emergent order, the, 23–24
relation to Christian belief, xii, 7–8, 10–13, 24, 49–52, 53–54, 190, 252–264
Evolutionary argument against naturalism, xiv, 309–350
given nonreductive materialism, 326–333
given reductive materialism, 333–335
Evolutionary psychology, xiii, 130–152, 163, 265, 349
Explanation, 26–27, 129–133, 196–197, 199–200, 219, 223–224, 226–228, 239–240, 245–246, 258–259
Darwinian, 129–133, 226–228, 239–240, 245–246, 258–259, 287
inference to the best, 219, 223–224
requirements of, 196–197
ultimate vs. particular, 26–27
Faith, 44–47, 68n, 108, 144, 156, 178–183
as a gift from God, 68n, 108, 178
as a source of knowledge, 44–47, 179
Calvin’s definition of, 179
in relation to reason, 44–47, 144, 156, 178–183
Fake barn country, 166–167, 341–342
Fantz, R.L., 243n
Feyerabend, Paul, 124
Fine-tuning argument, 194–224, 237
anthropic objection to, 199–204
as inference to the best explanation, 219, 223–224
Bayesian version of, 219–220
coarse-tuning argument, 211
incoherence objection to, 205–210
likelihood version of, 220–223
many worlds objection to, 212–218
one-sided, 198
“this universe” objection, 214–218
Flatness problem, the, 195
Flew, Anthony, 124, 223n
Foster, John, 67n, 89n
Four horsemen of atheism, x, 282–283.
See also
New Atheists
Free will, 87–90, 99, 102–104, 107, 117, 119–120, 276, 311, 322
Frege, Gottlob, 288
Freud, Sigmund, 148–152
Functional interpretation of religion, 145–146
Gale, Richard, 45
Galileo, Galilei, 6–7, 266, 292–294, 296
Gardner, Martin, 200n
Galileo affair, 6–7
Gellman, Yehuda, 26
Gilkey, Langdon, 69–70, 72–74, 76, 86, 90, 96, 159
Ghirardi, G.C., 96, 115, 119n
Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber approach (to Quantum Mechanics), 95–97, 115–116, 119n, 308n
Gödel, Kurt, 338
Goodwin, Brian, 23–24
Gould, Stephen Jay, 7–9, 12, 15, 131n, 308
Gravy, half-congealed, xvi
Guthrie, Stewart, 141
Habermas, Gary, 19n
Hacking, Ian, 297
HADD (hypersensitive agency detection device), 141, 246n
Hands-off theologians, 74–90, 105
Harris, Sam, x, 30n, 283
Harvey, A.E., 168
Harvey, Van, 158
Hasker, William, 320
Hawking, Stephen, 195, 277
Hefner, Philip, 100, 104
Heidelberg Catechism, 4, 8, 65–67, 272
Heisenberg, Werner, 123
Hilbert’s hotel, 210
Hinde, Robert A., 145
Hitchens, Christopher, x, 30n, 283
Historical Biblical Criticism (HBC), xiii, 61, 130, 152–161, 163, 169, 173, 174, 190.
See also
scientific scripture scholarship
Duhemian, 159–160
Troeltschian 174, 190
Hodge, Charles, 11
Holy Spirit, 68, 108, 152, 164
internal witness of, 68, 108, 152
Humeanism about natural laws, 83n, 88–89
Hume, David, 43, 74, 239, 244–245, 249n, 263–264, 292–295
Huxley, Thomas H., 7, 16
Idealism, 201
Imago dei
, xiii–xiv, 4–5, 11, 14, 120, 129, 161, 164, 181, 187, 268–269, 277, 283, 285, 295–296, 298–299, 313, 339n
Impossibility, 18, 217, 288n
Incarnation, 46, 59, 164, 173, 262
Indeterminism, 92–94, 110, 114
Indicators, 328–331
Induction, 8, 44, 45, 149, 178, 241, 292–296, 312, 344
Inference to the best explanation, 219, 223–224
Irreducible complexity, 171, 225–232