Random Thoughts

[Angrboda]

^If I understand this correctly (and I confess to not having read the linked article), then he's saying that it's ok to believe in God if you believe God exists. 

I'm good with that.

Boru

Plantinga's argument is that it's reasonable to consider a self-authenticating witness of the holy spirit, a sensus divinitatus, is properly basic and therefore needing no justification, if and only if the mind/brain is doing what it was designed to do. That a healthy mind is designed to detect God assumes that there is a God to do such designing, which basically is what we need a self-authenticating witness to determine in the first place. So Plantinga's reformed epistemology becomes a very literal Munchausien lifting oneself up by one's bootstraps. The short version is that using reformed epistemology to argue that such things can evidence the existence of God is cracked and suffers from a vicious circularity.