Christoffer
Puritan Board Sophomore
A standard move within christian apologetics is to ask the scientifically-minded atheist what reason he has for believing that his sense are reliable, that the world has the same logical structure as his mind, that memory is reliable etc.
The christian would answer that as we presuppose that God has created us for knowing Him and His creation we have an adequate ground for believing in the reliability of our cognitive faculties.
But cannot the atheist in a similar manner reply that he presupposes that evolutionary forces have given him reliable cognitive faculties? In that way the force of the christian argument is removed.
The christian would answer that as we presuppose that God has created us for knowing Him and His creation we have an adequate ground for believing in the reliability of our cognitive faculties.
But cannot the atheist in a similar manner reply that he presupposes that evolutionary forces have given him reliable cognitive faculties? In that way the force of the christian argument is removed.