Thursday, January 31, 2008

The Materialist's Worldview

The worldview of materialism is basically that the universe came into existence from nothing and has evolved by chance. Their metaphysics is that all that exists is the physical world of matter in random motion, that is what all reality is when it is broken down to its smallest particle.

The worldview of materialism is totally impersonal and irrational and fails to account for the intelligence of Reason, Logic, personal rational experience of reality and morality.
Impersonal

Many have asked me what the word impersonal means, so I will define the word for clarification.

Impersonal; means that there is no personal (or rational) relationship to anything in the
universe.

If the universe exploded into being from nothing then there is no rational control on the effect. There is no rational control behind any action, it is exploding and evolving by chance. All the parts of the explosion have no rational relationship to each other and have no structure that they must follow. There is no designed function that any particle or entity is bound to act according to. Everything is in random movement evolving by chance.

If the particles of matter have evolved to form our brains then there is no reason why we should trust them as they have been created by random chance. Each cause and effect of the process of evolution has evolved by chance. That means that our brains have been preprogrammed by chance. If we are only our brains as the materialist likes to believe then we didn’t have any control in shaping them. Our thoughts are according to the chemical make up and reactions that happen in our heads and if this was preprogrammed by chance then there is no rational relationship in our thinking or any rational reason why our thoughts should tell us anything about the impersonal world outside our minds. Why should logical formulas correspond to an impersonal world. Is the universe running according to logic? I don’t think so. We can’t just impose a chance concept on reality.

The materialist’s worldview also makes our personal experiences of reality irrational to. Why should we expect our personal experiences to tell us anything rational. The environment we live in is matter moving by random chance. If there are no relationships in nature how can we understand our experiences? If there is no order or structure with meaning (an interpretation to reality) how are we to relate to what we are experiencing. Some atheists like to say that the universe is ordered, but order is a concept of mind and not inherit in matter as a substance. Order is a rational relationship or law that something must follow due to its design.

No comments: