Alvin Plantinga Quotes
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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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One said whatever would be of advantage; the question whether it was true no longer arose.
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Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.
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Faith is not to be contrasted with knowledge: faith (at least in paradigmatic instances) is knowledge, knowledge of a certain special kind.
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The mere fact that a belief is unpopular at present (or at some other time) is interesting from a sociological point of view but evidentially irrelevant.
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Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
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The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are not widely shared outside the Christian or theistic community is interesting but fundamentally irrelevant.
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In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility.
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There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism.
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These questions that philosophers confront have to be reconfronted in every generation. The problems of philosophy reoccur in different forms.