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Response to Wunder: objective probability, non-contingent theism, and the EAAN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2018

PERRY HENDRICKS
PERRY HENDRICKS*
Affiliation:
Trinity Western University, Langley, British ColumbiaV2Y 1Y1, Canada
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e-mail: ampchendricks@gmail.com
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Abstract

This article is a response to Tyler Wunder's ‘The modality of theism and probabilistic natural theology: a tension in Alvin Plantinga's philosophy’ (this journal). In his article, Wunder argues that if the proponent of the Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (EAAN) holds theism to be non-contingent and frames the argument in terms of objective probability, then the EAAN is either unsound or theism is necessarily false. I argue that a modest revision of the EAAN renders Wunder's objection irrelevant, and that this revision actually widens the scope of the argument.

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Religious Studies , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , June 2020 , pp. 292 - 296
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018

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