From my reading for Christian philosophy class.
"According to Calvin, everyone, whether in faith or not, has a tendency...in certain situations, to apprehend God's existence and to grasp something of his nature and actions. This natural knowledge can be and is suppressed by sin, but the fact remains that the capacity to apprehend God's existence is as much part of our natural noetic equipment as is the capacity to apprehend perceptual truths, truths about the past, and truths about other minds. Belief in the existence of God is in the same boat as belief in other minds, [belief in] the past, and [belief in] perceptual objects; in each case God has so constructed us that in the right circumstances we form the belief in question."
-Alvin Plantinga (b. 1932), "Reason and Belief in God"
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