If your brain is just a swirl of atoms bumping into each other, why trust anything it tells you? That’s not a rhetorical question—it’s the fatal flaw at the heart of naturalism. In this article, I unpack the Argument from Reason, a devastating challenge to atheistic materialism famously advanced by C. S. Lewis. Drawing from Lewis, Paul Gould, and presuppositional heavyweights like Van Til and Bahnsen, I make the case that reason itself—your ability to think, reflect, and infer—only makes sense in a world created and governed by the God of Scripture. If you’ve ever wondered whether atheists can account for logic, or how to expose the internal contradiction of naturalism, this is where you begin.
Read MoreWhy should Christians engage in debates? Aren’t they just ego battles? In this post, Joel Settecase explains why debates are actually biblical, evangelistic, and essential. Drawing from Jesus, Paul, and Peter, he shows how apologetics isn’t about winning arguments—it’s about proclaiming Christ and calling unbelievers to repentance.
Read MoreAtheism borrows tools it can’t explain. In this debate, I challenged an agnostic atheist to account for logic, science, and morality without God—and when pressed, he had to invent universe-making aliens. This article unpacks why only the Christian worldview supplies the necessary preconditions of intelligibility—and why denying that ends in absurdity.
Read MoreWhen an agnostic tried to ground logic and knowledge in the Principle of Sufficient Reason instead of the triune God, I showed why that foundation crumbles under its own weight. Only the God of the Bible provides the necessary preconditions for intelligibility—and without Him, you’re left with floating concepts and borrowed capital. Here’s how the debate unfolded—and why presuppositional apologetics still stands undefeated.
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