 Appealing to a general “principle of dwindling probabilities”, Plantinga has argued that complex inferential cases for Christianity of the kind Swinburne presents must necessarily fail. Such complex arguments chain together a number of logically independent propositions, most of which are merely probable given the evidence. For every merely probable proposition that is needed to reach the conclusion, the probability of the hypothesis as a whole will decrease, since the probabilities at each stage of the argument must be multiplied. Plantinga argues that even if the probabilities of the individual propositions are given a very generous estimate—for example, if we assign the probability 0.9 to the proposition that God exists (on our background knowledge)—the overall conclusion about the Christian revelation will still have a probability well below 0.5. Plantinga, therefore, concludes that the inferential case for the Christian revelation 