Alvin Plantinga on Richard Dawkins
Alvin Plantinga has just published on article with Books & Culture responding to Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion, entitled, “The Dawkins Confusion: Naturalism ad absurdum.” Without a doubt, this is the most well-reasoned response yet—far surpassing the apologetic counter-attack of Alister McGrath, though not as purely enjoyable as the response by Terry Eagleton.
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Platinga here is providing a good model of what I see as the negative role of christian philosophy. (the negative role being the one showing why atheistic attacks on christianity are wrong).
I'm still trying to work out exactly what the 'positive' role should be. But of course this is a more constructive, therefore, more difficult thing to determine.