In the short video (13:45), philosopher Alvin Plantinga explains his famous "Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism."
James Beilby, in the Dictionary of Christianity and Science, summarizes the argument well:
"...Plantinga argues that the probability that humans would have developed truth-aimed, reliable belief-producing mechanisms, given naturalism and contemporary evolutionary theory, is low. This is because, given naturalism, it is difficult to see how the content of a belief (or the proposition associated with the belief) enters the causal chain leading to adaptive behavior. The naturalist who comes to accept this implication of naturalism and evolution acquires a defeater for her or his belief that unguided evolution has produced truth-aimed, reliable cognitive faculties. This defeater, then, gives the naturalist a defeater for all other beliefs she or he has, including naturalism itself. Hence naturalism is self-defeating."1
Courage and Godspeed,
Chad
1. James Beilby, Alvin Plantinga, Dictionary of Christianity and Science, p. 517.
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