[f.Christian]

"Consider someone who believes that Venus is smaller than Mercury-not because he has evidence, but because he read it in a comic book and always believes whatever he reads in comic books-or consider someone who holds that belief on the basis of an outrageously bad argument. Perhaps there is no obligation he has failed to meet; nevertheless his intellectual condition is defective in some way. He displays a sort of deficiency, a flaw, an intellectual dysfunction of some sort. Perhaps he is like someone who has an astigmatism, or is unduly clumsy, or suffers from arthritis. And perhaps the evidentialist objection is to be construed, not as the claim that the theist without evidence has violated some intellectual obligations, but that he suffers from a certain sort of intellectual deficiency. The theist without evidence, we might say, is an intellectual gimp."

[f.Christian]

"Religion, says Freud, is the "universal obsessional neurosis of humanity", and it is destined to disappear when human beings learn to face reality as it is, resisting the tendency to edit it to suit our fancies."

False man made religion(atheism/darwinism/evolution) based on denial of reality/God(creator/creation)...

is the 'universal obsessional neurosis of humanity'---

and it(false science) is destined to disappear when human beings learn to face reality as it is(positive science)...

resisting the tendency to edit it to suit our fancies(normative science)."

[Dumb_Ox]

No wonder Plantinga is so widely praised. I've rarely seen such a compact, thought-provoking argument.

[Nogbad]

selfBump

[f.Christian]

"The theist without evidence, we might say, is an intellectual gimp."

The A-theist/evolutionist without evidence, we might say, is an intellectual gimp.

[anniegetyourgun]

A philosphy is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save. Therefore, see to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on the only One who can save.