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The evolutionary argument against naturalism (EAAN) is a philosophical argument asserting a problem with believing both evolution and philosophical naturalism simultaneously. The argument was first formally proposed by Alvin Plantinga in 1993. The EAAN argues that the combined belief in both evolutionary theory and naturalism is epistemically self-defeating. The argument states that if both evolution and naturalism are true, then the probability of having reliable cognitive faculties is low, which then destroys any reason to believe in evolution or naturalism in the first place, as the cognitive faculties one used to deduce evolution or naturalism as logically valid are no longer reliable. The argument "raises issues of interest to epistemologists, philosophers of mind, evolutionary biologists, and philosophers of religion". It comes as an expansion of the argument from reason, although the two are separate philosophical arguments.
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