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Comment author: David_Gerard 26 September 2012 07:35:40AM *  0 points [-]

Alvin Plantinga is renowned as one of the finest philosophers and theologians that the theist world has to offer. Maarten Boudry (the guy who did the Sokaling I note a couple of posts down) absolutely obliterates the painfully awful bloviations on science and evolution to be found in Plantinga's latest book. PDF, p21 on. If you enjoy LessWrong, you will enjoy this example of a good philosopher skewering bad philosophy.

Related: I have finally written up the recent history of the phrase "sophisticated theology" as used by New Atheists and their fans. Needs more from people who were there at the time, though Jerry Coyne thought I did OK.