More from Alvin Platinga Ph.d , "greatest religious thinker of our time" .... i probably would like the fellow as a human being , but what he is trying to prove it seems is just utterly cracked to me <G>
en.wikipedia.org
" Argument that evolutionary naturalism is incoherent "
Plantinga has argued that evolutionary naturalism is incoherent[1]. To this end, he quotes Darwin as follows:
With me, the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would anyone trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind...?
— Charles Darwin, Letter to William Graham, Down, July 3rd, 1881. In The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin Including an Autobiographical Chapter, ed. Francis Darwin (London: John Murray, Albermarle Street, 1887), Volume 1, pp. 315-316.
No , Alvin , because we did evolve from the lower primates , we had done just what such magnificently ignorant children do that hadn't barely invented the shovel or wheel barrows yet but were beginning to . Just beginning to grasp the vaster concepts of time and space beyond the limits of the next valley or two , or making marks on stone walls to track the passing of the days and months. We invented systems of oral folktales of Gods and magical solutions dreamed up by none other than our very own primitive selves . Why would we trust the monkey's mind ?
Because it is the precursor to our own perhaps?
And then again ---->Why would we trust some the earliest scribings of primitive bronze age human
relatives living 4000yrs ago ? This is his proof ? It would be easier just to say that all life being part of the same tree shares in the same consciousness to a more or lessor degree , and the entire planet is "aware" , than to follow the restrictions of his line of thought . If you are going to believe in a supreme "Being/ Mind/Diety " , you might as well jump into the well with both feet....and love it all !
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