Plantinga 2 "Creation"

As I read through Plantinga I am growing to constantly admire both his ability to write about complex phenomena in simplistic ways, as well as his humility is his constant references of other great philosophers, writers, and theologians.
At the beginning of chapter two Plantinga introduces the creation theology. We are given the idea that creation is the imaginative work of God stemming out of his love. The creation is in a sense a part of who God is an expression. God created in order to manifest all of his attributes; beauty, intelligence, mercy, justice, love ect.
Plantinga gives us many incites into the book of creation. Plantinga's first introduces the idea of "lasting goodness of the creation". This idea is that God created the world good, and that even after the fall some of this good remains inside all things thus making all things redeemable. Sadly I struggle with this idea of Plantinga from a Biblical reformed perspective. In contrast to his idea I quote several passages from scripture. First we look at Romans 4:10-12 "There is none righteous no not one; There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good no not one...." Secondly we look at Romans 6:11 "Likewise you also reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord..." Both these verses are key pieces to the doctrine which reformed Christians believe in known as total depravity. The metaphor of death really could not be clearer. In death there is, and dare I be redundant, no life. Similarly in sin, in fallen man there is no good. I smile at such a notion touched on by C.S. Lewis's denial of total depravity because of the idea that if we were totally depraved how would we know it? Christian servants of God that is the whole point. The only thing in the way of truly understanding grace is getting past ourselves and our own desire to have a part in our salvation. We in fact left to ourselves are dead, and therefore have no ability to do anything much less realize that we are dead. Personally I think that the grace of God becomes so much more powerful and so much more personal when we view it completely outside ourselves. I end this small tirade into theology with another quote from scripture I Corr. 15:57 "Death is swallowed up in victory 'O death where is you sting? O grave where is they victory' The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
Despite what I believe to be error on Plantinga's part in reference to internal goodness, he does do a good job referencing other ideas about creation. One idea he references is that God alone rules the universe. There is no counter power to God, He Himself is sovereign. Inside this soverienty he also upholds and continually preserves his creation. Plantinga also states that we can study creation as a revelation of God.
Creation is truly an epicenter of understanding into God. In seeking how, why, and the creation itself we can come to understand the truest attributes of God especially his love for us.