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Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism

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2008-05-17 10:37:36

Description: Please watch Part 2 as well! ( : http://www.veritas.org/media/talks/619: A video where Plantinga gives defending his Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (EAAN) (More) Please watch Part 2 as well! ( : http://www.veritas.org/media/talks/619: A video where Plantinga gives defending his Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (EAAN) http://www.youtube.com/user/Veritas48: Veritas48 youtube cite Naturalism -- the belief that there is no God or anything at all like him. Evolution -- "We human beings have arrived on the scene after millions, indeed, billions of years of organic evolution. In the beginning, there was just inorganic matter; somehow, and by way of processes of which we currently have no grasp, life, despite its enormous and daunting complexity at even the simplest level, arose from nonliving matter, and arose just by way of the regularities studied in physics and chemistry. Once life arose, random genetic mutation and natural selection, those great twin engines of evolution, swung into action. These genetic mutations are multiply random: they weren't intended by anyone, of course, but also were not directed by any sort of natural teleology and do not arise at the behest of the design plan of the organism. They are "not in a response to the needs of the organism" (Ernst Mayr); they just unaccountably appear. Occasionally, some of them yield an adaptive advantage; their possessors come to predominate in the population, and they are passed on to the next and subsequent generations. In this way, all the enormous variety of flora and fauna we behold came into being" (Alvin Plantinga, Warranted Christian Belief OR Louis P. Pojman and Michael C. Rea, Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, page 492). The probability that our cognitive faculties are reliable IS LOW, given naturalism and evolution. In symbols: P of R/N&E is low Cognitive faculties -- that part of us which produce belief Cognitive faculties are reliable IF they produce mostly true beliefs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce9I6BhXlrA: An interview with Patricia Churchland on youtube. (Doesn't have the quote that I mention in the video!!) Epiphenomenalism -- Belief is an 'epiphenomena' to behavior The Syntactic/semantic view -- belief is composed of two properties: 1) neuronal properities/events, and 2) the content of the belief (its veracity or falsity) On both these views, it would be ARBITRARY and inconsequential that a belief be true; thus we should conclude either that 'the probability that our cognitive faculties are reliable given naturalism and evolution is low or that it is inscrutable that our cognitive faculties are reliable given naturalism and evolution.' There's no reason to trust our cognitive faculties on these two views. (Less)

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Bay Area Discrete Math Day XII: Hierarchial Dirichle...

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2008-04-21 17:43:49

Description: Google TechTalks Bay Area Discrete Math Day XII April 15, 2006 Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley) ABSTRACT A Dirichlet process (DP) is a random probability measure that concentrates on discrete measures. (More)

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Lecture: Probabilistic Methods in Computer Systems M...

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2008-04-21 18:09:12

Description: EE 465 Course on DEN: Review of probability; random variables; stochastic processes; Markov chains; and simple queueing theory. Applications to program and algorithm analysis; computer systems (More)

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