A follower of my blog named David Theroux has written a piece about philosopher Alvin Plantinga. Below is a small excerpt of that article, and the full article can be found here.
The world-renowned philosopher Alvin C. Plantinga has recently received the prestigious Nicholas Rescher Prize for Contributions to Systematic Philosophy,
awarded by the University of Pittsburgh’s Departments of Philosophy,
History, and Philosophy of Science, and the Center for the History and
Philosophy of Science. Plantinga is widely known for his work in the
philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics and Christian
apologetics, and he has revolutionized scholarly interest in Christian
theism, shown naturalism/atheism to be self-refuting and incoherent, and
set the new standards for the defense of free will, individual agency,
consciousness, rational inference, science, objective truth and
morality, and more. As a result, Plantinga has both directly influenced
the entire field of philosophy and has mentored and inspired new
generations of top scholars who are critiquing the reductionism,
relativism, materialism, collectivism, scientism, positivism,
determinism, and de-humanization of the modern era. In short, Plantinga
has devastated the prevailing view in Western elites that human beings
are merely “matter in motion” (i.e., purposeless, accidental, robotic
products of a closed, natural world ruled solely by physical laws and
that truth, reason, morality, and God are illusions).
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