What's wrong with the evolutionary argument against naturalism?

Abstract
Alvin Plantinga has argued that evolutionary naturalism (the idea that God does not tinker with evolution) undermines its own rationality. Natural selection is concerned with survival and reproduction, and false beliefs conjoined with complementary motivational drives could serve the same aims as true beliefs. Thus, argues Plantinga, if we believe we evolved naturally, we should not think our beliefs are, on average, likely to be true, including our beliefs in evolution and naturalism. I argue herein that our cognitive faculties are less reliable than we often take them to be, that it is theism which has difficulty explaining the nature of our cognition, that much of our knowledge is not passed through biological evolution but learned and transferred through culture, and that the unreliability of our cognition helps explain the usefulness of science
Keywords evolution  naturalism  evolutionary argument against naturalism  plantinga  cognition  bias
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DOI 10.1007/s11153-010-9272-3
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Warrant and Proper Function.Alvin Plantinga - 1993 - Oxford University Press.

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