![]() ![]() Worldviews cause problems for themselves when they say that there’s no real self, that our ideas are the results of physical processes (or products of culture, or mere power plays), that “reason” is really an illusion. Thus when it discredits reason, it undercuts its own case. Yet the only way a worldview can build its own case is by using reason. ![]() ![]() It says the ideas in our minds are products of natural selection (Darwinism) or economic conditions (Marxism) or electrochemical responses in the brain (contemporary neuroscience). When reductionism is applied to the human mind, it reduces reason to something less than reason. Irtually all idol-based worldviews are self-refuting. ![]() This week, Nancy Pearcey explains how to find where a worldview contradicts itself: So far, we’ve learned how to identify the idol in a worldview (i.e., its understanding of the nature of ultimate reality), to find where it reduces the view of the human person to something less than human, and to see where that reductionism fails to match reality. This week, we’re discussing the chapter “Why Worldviews Commit Suicide” in Nancy Pearcey’s Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes, which covers the fourth of five principles for evaluating worldviews: “Test the Idol: Does It Contradict Itself?” (see links to the previous posts below). ![]()
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