Plantinga is well known for the argument you included in the post. He wrote a book called God and Other Minds back in the early 70's (I think). Belief in God is not necessary. Belief in other minds and the external world is necessary for survival. Religious experience is not convincing at all to me. First of, religious experience can be interpreted in a zillion different ways and there's no evidence that religious experiences refer to anything or are anything other than just unusual brain activity.

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