(July 29, 2013 at 2:18 pm)genkaus Wrote:(July 29, 2013 at 1:08 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: I should note that Plantinga has specifically stated that his argument does not establish it's conclusion as true. Rather, he believes it makes theism rationally tenable.
If your argument, starting with favorable premises, still fails to establish your conclusion as true, then I'm sorry, but your position is not rationally tenable.
What I mean is he thinks you could still deny the initial premise - that the greatest conceivable being can possibly exist - to get around the argument, and that is what, as he says, 'the canny atheist will do'.