tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post4438443718842107439..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: "The Funeral of a Great Myth"Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-32823956628393436962009-12-20T17:42:02.179-05:002009-12-20T17:42:02.179-05:00Thanks, guys.Thanks, guys.Patrick Chanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16095377877712197984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-45441873399070456912009-12-19T00:22:05.799-05:002009-12-19T00:22:05.799-05:00In Reppert's book, C.S. Lewis's Dangerous ...In Reppert's book, C.S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea, he groups the Lewis and Plantinga arguments under a general rubric of "arguments from reason." So although Plantinga is almost certainly not derivative in any way of Lewis, they are both derivative of the same general project.JDBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12642092698398859527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-59900035227958266512009-12-17T23:46:12.865-05:002009-12-17T23:46:12.865-05:00Although Plantinga may not owe CSL for his EAAN, I...Although Plantinga may not owe CSL for his EAAN, I think it's fair to say EAAN was anticipated by various figures decades before. I’m not a philosopher, nor do I play one on t.v. However, having read much of Gordon Clark and only having a little familiarity with Alvin Plantinga, I have found one important apologetic affinity between the two thinkers (another might be their theodicy for evil). It is along the lines of an evolutionary argument against naturalism. Plantinga has definitely elaborated this argument out extensively throughout the last two decades. It is worth noting that Clark possibly anticipated such an argument 50 years earlier in his “A Christian Philosophy of Education” (in my opinion, one of his best apologetic works).<br />In the signature series volume of that book in the last paragraph on page 94, Clark outlines an evolutionary argument against naturalism. I would be interested to know if this paragraph appears in the original edition of 1946. If this paragraph was added, it must have been added before Clark’s passing. It is an extremely important insight and one that may even have appeared earlier in the writings of G.K. Chesterton as well. I don’t read Lewis or Chesterton too much, but remember coming across some of their quotes online somewhere to the effect of an evolutionary argument against naturalism. Plantinga definitely argues more fully and vigorously in his developed EAAN.Roberto Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12001687796231578134noreply@blogger.com