Re: Plantinga: Whether ID [Intelligent Design]

To put it very crudely, Plantinga holds to presuppositionalism, with the
notion that this supports the Reformed or Kuyperian notion of knowledge,
including science. See Clouser's paper in the latest /PSCF/. This
basically adds "and God did it" to whatever those who are not Reformed
discover empirically. On critical analysis, this adds nothing relevant.

I hold that one may presuppose almost anything, though some
presuppositions are more widely accepted than others. Materialism,
dualism, theism are common; creation 5 seconds ago, not. But none are
provable, especially given human fallibility and finitude. These and
others may be developed consistently, and all have problems, though those
who know they are right dismiss the problems with their view.
Dave

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:37:12 -0800 (PST) Pim van Meurs
<pimvanmeurs@yahoo.com> writes:
I am glad I am not the only one who sees the problems in Plantinga's
'arguments'. The reason why the supernatural has no scientific value is
because it explains anything and thus nothing. And it is clearly not
falsifiable. What if I state that God created our universe two seconds
ago with all the history and memory to make it seem it has existed for
billions of years?
What if I claim that God created life and the flagellum? What does it
explain? How can it be disproven?

Pim
Received on Fri Mar 17 14:53:18 2006