Comments on Alvin Plantinga’s “Games Scientists Play”

Alexander R. Pruss

ap85@georgetown.edu

Evolutionary psychology:

(1) The only purpose of activity x is y.

Christianity:

(2) The only purpose of activity x is z.

A common notion of teleology?

The purpose of x is a goal y that x most of the time achieves and which is such that x’s existence is to be explained by x’s achieving y.

Evolutionary psychology:

(1a) The only purpose, whether evolutionary or agent or other, of x is y

Christianity:

(2a) The only purpose, whether evolutionary or agent or other, of x is z

Was Mother Teresa rational?

“For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards … but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise … so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.  He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom” (1 Cor. 1:26-30)

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