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Does evolution undermine naturalism?
Yes, Plantinga's argument is right 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
No, the argument is crap 100%  100%  [ 9 ]
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05 Sep 2008, 5:12 pm

It would certainly be interesting to try to find the numbers for the probability of an animal's beliefs being true or false. Y'knowm given the fact that we would need to conduct such an investigation a posteriori...


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06 Sep 2008, 2:27 pm

LostInEmulation wrote:
I do not agree with the maths. They fail to take into account that beliefs are constantly synchronized with reality. Let's take one I had quite a long time: "the busses of the line 250 are always at least 5 minutes too late." Well, I once encountered one being a few minutes too early and not waiting :x Belief falsified.


Exactly the point I was about to make. We have continuous confirmation of which beliefs are true and which aren't.