Escuerd wrote:
Usually that's true, but not always. There's actually a school of thought in Christian apologetics called "Presuppositionalism" whose proponents contrast it with "evidentialism". I've seen some argue that because everyone starts with unfounded premises, any are as good as any others. This school of thought actually goes so far as to say that certain Christian beliefs are the best set of premises to start with, and tend to assert that one cannot have logic or rationality or inductive reasoning without it. It's a bizarre world, eh?
Right, presuppositional apologetics, started by Cornelius Van Til, the argument is basically that all people work within presuppositions, but Christian suppositions are the best and all others do not allow for necessary things such as logic, morality, or anything else to make sense. It really focuses a lot on negative apologetics and is affiliated with Calvinistic theology. Actually, part of the beliefs are that all people inherently know that God exist, atheists are just in denial and that is why their ideas are inconsistent, at least, this was argued by Van Til.
13 May 2008, 5:40 pm
