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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy states the following regarding recent developments in ontological arguments for the existence of God:
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy states the following regarding recent developments in ontological arguments for the existence of God:
{{cquote|In more recent times, [[Kurt Gödel]], Charles Hartshorne, Norman Malcolm and [[Alvin Plantinga]] have all presented much-discussed ontological arguments which bear interesting connections to the earlier arguments of St. Anselm, [[Rene Descartes|Descartes]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]]. Of these, the most interesting are those of Gödel and Plantinga; in these cases, however, it is unclear whether we should really say that these authors claim that the arguments are proofs of the existence of God.<ref>http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments/</ref>}}
{{cquote|In more recent times, [[Kurt Gödel]], Charles Hartshorne, Norman Malcolm and [[Alvin Plantinga]] have all presented much-discussed ontological arguments which bear interesting connections to the earlier arguments of St. Anselm, [[Rene Descartes|Descartes]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]]. Of these, the most interesting are those of Gödel and Plantinga; in these cases, however, it is unclear whether we should really say that these authors claim that the arguments are proofs of the existence of God.<ref>http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments/</ref>}}
=== Alvin Plantinga's ontological argument ===
*[https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2010/12/plantingas-ontological-argument.html Plantinga’s ontological argument]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbY05GupB78 Plantinga's Modal Ontological Argument Explained ], video
== Criticism ==
== Criticism ==