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Although the Bible teaches that Gods existence is evident from nature, it has become commonplace in modern society for people to doubt or deny that God exists. This article contends that six aspects of our lives that all of us take for granted existence, values, morality, reason, mind, and science can only be explained adequately on a theistic basis. 1 The existence of contingent things including humans ultimately depends on a noncontingent, selfexistent God who freely created the universe. 2 Objective value judgments about things within the universe presuppose an absolute standard of goodness that transcends the universe, by which those things can be judged good or bad. 3 Objective moral judgments about human actions presuppose transcendent moral laws that in turn require a transcendent moral lawgiver, as even many atheists concede. 4 Our rational faculties must find their ultimate origin in a rational source reason cannot come from nonreason, and naturalistic evolutionary explanations of our cognitive faculties are selfdefeating. 5 Our possession of conscious minds cannot be explained on an atheistic materialistic basis; naturalistic evolutionary accounts of the emergence of complex conscious minds assume the very thing they purport to explain. 6 Science rests on a host of foundational philosophical presuppositions, including two assumptions that cannot be justified apart from a theistic worldview the universe is orderly and rational and 2 our minds are wellfitted to comprehend that order and rationality. Insofar as atheists take these six things for granted, they have to depend on God even while they deny His existence. This Postmodern Realities Podcast episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author James N. Anderson about his feature article in Volume 40 5 called The Inescapability of God. This article is based on Andersons book Why Should I Believe Christianity?, which is available to you as one of the Equipping Essentials Resources when you join the CRI Support Team
Although the Bible teaches that Gods existence is evident from nature, it has become commonplace in modern society for people to doubt or deny that God exists. This article contends that six aspects of our lives that all of us take for granted existence, values, morality, reason, mind, and science can only be explained adequately on a theistic basis. 1 The existence of contingent things including humans ultimately depends on a noncontingent, selfexistent God who freely created the universe. 2 Objective value judgments about things within the universe presuppose an absolute standard of goodness that transcends the universe, by which those things can be judged good or bad. 3 Objective moral judgments about human actions presuppose transcendent moral laws that in turn require a transcendent moral lawgiver, as even many atheists concede. 4 Our rational faculties must find their ultimate origin in a rational source reason cannot come from nonreason, and naturalistic evolutionary explanations of our cognitive faculties are selfdefeating. 5 Our possession of conscious minds cannot be explained on an atheistic materialistic basis; naturalistic evolutionary accounts of the emergence of complex conscious minds assume the very thing they purport to explain. 6 Science rests on a host of foundational philosophical presuppositions, including two assumptions that cannot be justified apart from a theistic worldview the universe is orderly and rational and 2 our minds are wellfitted to comprehend that order and rationality. Insofar as atheists take these six things for granted, they have to depend on God even while they deny His existence. This Postmodern Realities Podcast episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author James N. Anderson about his feature article in Volume 40 5 called The Inescapability of God. This article is based on Andersons book Why Should I Believe Christianity?, which is available to you as one of the Equipping Essentials Resources when you join the CRI Support Team read more read less

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