Induction proves Christian Theism

INDUCTION PROVES CHRISTIAN THEISM

Induction is an inference from particular, observed instances to a general law or conclusion. Scientific data can conclude, for instance, that a certain number of times in the past water has boiled at 212 degrees Fahrenheit at sea level, but it cannot assume that it was always so in the past or that it is so throughout the world today or that it will be so in the future without employing induction. Scientists perform inductive reasoning when they take a limited set of empirically-proven facts and apply it to the whole and make generalizations. Induction assumes the uniformity of nature: that as the world was yesterday, it is today, and will be in the future. Causes that produced certain effects yesterday, all things being the same, will produce identical effects tomorrow.

Induction is more evidence for the existence of the Christian God. Only the Christian God can account for what all sane scientists do when they employ inductive reasoning to perform studies and draw conclusions, when they brew their tea, shampoo their hair, put gasoline in their S.U.V.s, or don sunscreen before going golfing. The atheist worldview not only fails miserably to account for induction, but it actually undermines it! Atheistic scientists assume scientific induction every day, but they must "borrow" the Christian worldview to do so. The Christian worldview's foundation for induction is that a personal, intelligent God sustains the created order. The Christian God can be proved from the impossibility of the contrary. Without God, you couldn't prove anything! Without God, there could be no induction, just like without God you could not justify moral judgments or laws of logic.

Atheists profess a devotion to the scientific method, but even the scientific method assumes things that cannot be proven or tested by the scientific method. If all facts require verification by the scientific method in order to be believable, then the scientific method itself is not believable, because it assumes things that cannot be verified by the scientific method! The scientific method assumes things that the atheist's naturalism cannot support: immaterial, unchanging, universal entities, like laws of logic, the laws of nature, and even morality (falsifying data would be immoral in light of the scientific method). So, in appealing to the scientific method to defend the worldview of naturalism, the atheist must first assume the worldview of Christianity, which alone provides the metaphysical framework for the assumptions in the scientific method.

Atheists profess devotion to empirical facts to make scientific conclusions, but scientific conclusions are based upon more than bare facts. All scientific experiments and conclusions assume the uniformity of nature in inductive reasoning. Atheism not only fails to provide the foundation on which the uniformity of nature is dependable, but their empiricism and naturalism refute the idea of unchanging laws in an ever-changing universe. Even if the assumptions of induction were true in spite of naturalism's refutation of them, how could the atheist ever know of them with their empiricism? How can their naturalism account for unchanging, uniform laws of nature in an ever-changing universe? How can their empiricism account for inductive reasoning? Can they through finite sense experience alone assume a universal, or through their limited sense data affirm the uniformity of nature, upon which all inductive reasoning is based? The assumptions necessary for induction are not obtained through any of their five senses or the five senses of those experts upon whose testimony atheists rely, because no person(s) has checked the boiling temperature of water at every place on the earth, for instance, and no person has done so in the future. The uniformity of nature is taken "by faith" (if I may use that term in its broadest sense) - the atheist believes what he has not seen. His five senses haven't confirmed induction, and proof is impossible because of our inherent limitations. Induction is assumed a priori, before an examination of the evidence, in spite of the fact it doesn't meet their naturalistic or empiricist criteria for reality. So naturalism and empiricism fail miserably to provide the basis for induction. The atheist's acceptance of some things he hasn't seen, like the uniformity of nature, and his rejection of other things he hasn't seen, like God, is completely arbitrary. He's assumed the uniformity of nature to make sense of the universe, but why doesn't he also assume God to make sense of the uniformity of nature? He is completely arbitrary and insincere. Oh! the hypocrisy of those atheists who demand empirical data and scientific fact from the theists to prove their God exists when at the same time they assume things all the time they cannot prove, things whose foundation only exists within the Christian worldview! Atheists are living contradictions. They have their feet planted firmly on thin air!

I ask the atheist to provide a foundation for the laws of logic and induction. I ask the atheist to provide the basis for his claim to absolute truth - a principle the atheist assumes when he judges Christianity to be false and atheism true. I ask the atheist to provide the metaphysical framework for his moral indignation - so aptly demonstrated by the atheist when he judges Christian creationists for falsifying data. Aside from smoke and mirrors, he can't. The Christian God is the necessary pre-condition to the intelligibility of human experience - the atheist's experience as well as the theist's. God is proven from the impossibility of the contrary. His reality is irrefutably demonstrated transcendentally.
I challenge you atheists. If you're going to dig in your heels and fight the Christian "magical sky gawd" myth, then bite the bullet! Be consistent! And then, welcome to the barbarism of Hume! Consistent empiricism and naturalism, that rejects all unsensed and non-empirical data, disintegrates ultimately into the skepticism of Hume, who rejected even that sense data was dependable, because there never was any empirical evidence that the sense data was reliably linked to what the brain perceives. This connection has always been assumed valid by all humanity, Hume admitted, but he said that this was without basis in logic or reason. Reject God as the necessary precondition of reality, and it's reductio ad absurdum! If you don't have the courage to brave consistency with your worldview, then at the very least reject your inadequate naturalistic worldview and search for a worldview that you can live out consistently! The validity of induction is only confirmed within Christian worldview, the constancy of a created order over which God governs. The Christian worldview is the only worldview, or network of presuppositions, that is internally consistent, that can make human experience intelligible, and can provide the preconditions necessary for the assumptions that we all make with our moral judgments, the laws of logic and debate, and scientific induction.