functioning cognitive faculties working in accord with their design plan.”16 Belief in God, he argues, itself is (or can be) properly basic. In other words, if it is produced by our cognitive faculties working according to their “design plan” (the sensus divinitatis, before the fall, or the “internal instigation of the Holy Spirit,” in the postlapsarian state), belief in God need not be built upon beliefs that are more basic. So although the traditional arguments for the existence of God may have
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