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This argument against naturalism (that natural evolution is extremely unlikely to result in rational minds) is really just a variant on The Argument from Reason for the existence of God (that natural physics is extremely unlikely to result in rational minds). Both arguments originate with C.S. Lewis. This article deserves some commentary to that effect and an actual link to our wiki article on the latter subject. --173.76.67.53 (talk) 18:38, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
What are "Adaptive belief" and "Maladaptive belief"?--144.122.56.98 (talk) 12:46, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
"Asserting" in the introoduction is fine. It's the same as "claiming" really. The main issue is that the article does not, as it did before, claim that this argument really does demonstrate a problem, violating WP:NPOV.
After all, the argument just says "humans are fallible, so they could be wrong when they accept evolution". And it unnecessarily adds reasons for the already well-known fact that humans are fallible.
Of course the template "humans are fallible, so they could be wrong when they accept xxx" can be universally applied, so the argument is silly to the extreme and should be called "Evolutionary argument against everything anyone accepts as true". "Asserting" indeed. --Hob Gadling (talk) 07:56, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
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Rather than writing about the responses to this argument as if they are counter-arguments, the section on Responses is essentially a rant written against the topic of the article. The responses are characterized as inerrant fact that has set straight the record pertaining a religious fanatic. I haven't read these sources myself, but the Responses section seems to have more straw men in it than a cornfield. If those are lifted from the sources, the section should be rewritten to be discussing sources instead of summarizing them as fact. If those aren't lifted from the sources, then they're original content and should be edited out. Either way, there is little more than a mess of missing commas and run-on sentences in that Responses section that imparts no knowledge other than that the writer of that section has a chip on her or his shoulder. Trogyssy (talk) 01:16, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
Daniel Dennet too has criticised Plantinga's argument. Include his criticism of Plantinga as well. The audio of the debate between Plantinga and Dennet on the compatibility of science and religion contains dennet's criticism of plantinga. Anas Azeem 2005 (talk) 15:46, 26 May 2022 (UTC)