James Beilby. Naturalism Defeated? Essays on Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism. Cornell University Press, 2002.
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1689-8311
DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v2i1.365