attitudes such as beliefs and desires, among other intentional mental states that have content, cannot be explained on naturalism and therefore concludes that such entities do not exist. It is not clear whether the EAAN would be successful against a conception of naturalism which accepts eliminative materialism to be the correct scientific account of human cognition. EAAN, intelligent design and theistic evolution In his discussion of EAAN, Michael Ruse described Plantinga as believing in the truth of the attack on evolution presented by intelligent design advocate Phillip E. Johnson, and as having endorsed Johnson's book Darwin on Trial. Ruse said that Plantinga took the conflict between science and religion further than Johnson, seeing it as not just a clash between the philosophies of naturalism and theism, but as an attack on the true philosophy of theism by what he considers the incoherent and inconsistent philosophy of naturalism. Plantinga has stated that EAAN is not directed against "the theory of evolution, or the claim that human beings have evolved from simian ancestors, or anything in that neighborhood". He also claimed that the problems raised by EAAN do not apply to the conjunction of theism and contemporary evolutionary science. In his essay Evolution and Design Plantinga outlines different ways in which theism and evolutionary theory can be combined. In the foreword to the anthology Naturalism Defeated? James Beilby wrote: "Plantinga's argument should not be mistaken for an argument against evolutionary theory in general or, more specifically, against the claim that humans might have evolved from more primitive life forms. Rather, the purpose of his argument is to show that the denial of the existence of a creative deity is problematic." See also Epistemology Evolution of human intelligence Evolution Evolutionary epistemology Hyperbolic doubt Naturalism (philosophy) Philosophy of mind Problem of mental causation Skepticism Theism Notes References External links Plantinga's paper: "Naturalism Defeated" (pdf) Audio recording of Plantinga's presentation of the Evolutionary Argument Against Evil, Biola University: listen online or download (11.2 MB. Requires RealPlayer). An extensive outline of this lecture is available on the website of philosopher Michael Sudduth. Naturalism Defeated? reviewed by John F. Post at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Evil and Evolution (The Great Debate) a debate between philosopher Paul Draper, who was one of the first to argue that the cruelty and suffering in evolution is not compatible with theism, and Alvin Plantinga, who responds that evolution is rather in