The Laws of Logic prove The Christian Worldview

THE LAWS OF LOGIC PROVE THE CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW

When the atheist employs the laws of logic to try and refute Christianity, Christianity has already won! When the atheist assumes that which his worldview undermines and which Christianity supports, in his arguments against Christian theism, he has become his own worst enemy. Universal, unchanging, and immaterial entities like the laws of logic have a firm foundation in the context of Christian theism. Atheism cannot account for them. Atheism undermines them.

Atheism is naturally naturalistic. That is, atheists deny the existence of the supernatural. "I will only believe what my five senses tell me!" they insist. My response is: Which of your five senses told you that? The truth is that their empiricism (that they can only know what their senses tell them) cannot be empirically sensed, and so it doesn't meet their own criteria for reality and so is self-refuting. They insist: "No faith in the unseen and unsensed is necessary in order to explain everything in the universe!" I rebut, Which of your five senses told you that, that sense experience is all that is needed to explain things? If the atheist responds that his senses told him then he engages in circular reasoning. If he says that something other than his five senses told him then he refutes himself.
The fact is that atheists do not arrive at their naturalism as a conclusion, but rather, it is their unproven, unverified premise, which is easily falsifiable with transcendental scrutiny. Their empiricism (their theory of knowing) and their naturalism (their theory of reality) do not meet their own criteria for credibility, and so they are self-refuting. Transcendental inquiry leads to supernaturalism, but the atheist is unwilling to go where the evidence leads, because he has excluded that option before an examination of the evidence has even commenced!

The fact is that atheists, like all sane persons, assume things everyday that cannot be derived through sense experience. The laws of logic, for instance, are assumed in order for the atheist to process sense data and experience in the first place. In order for the atheist to get his arguments against Christianity off the ground, he assumes the veracity of the universal, invariant, and immaterial laws of logic. Can the atheist taste, smell, touch, see, or feel the "law of contradiction" (that A does not equal non-A), for instance? No. His worldview cannot make sense of what he does when he speaks his first sentence, "I am an atheist..." At that point, he's lost the debate, because in assuming the laws of logic ("law of identity" in this case), he himself has become one more piece of evidence that the Christian God is real, for without God, there can be no universal, invariant, immaterial laws of logic in the first place.

Atheists notoriously beg the question repeatedly when asked to reconcile their dependability on logic with their atheistic presuppositions. One atheist insisted, "The basis for logic, science, induction, and reasoning is that the material world exists and can be tested objectively." That's like saying, "The basis for logic is logic," or "The basis for objective science and the objective uniformity of nature and the objective laws of science is objectivity." The acknowledgement of the objectivity of the laws of logic presupposes the Christian worldview in the first place! To admit that objective testing is possible presupposes an attainable objective truth. To even state that the immaterial world exists as a fact presupposes the Christian worldview! The atheist can only be certain that the immaterial world exists because of his presupposing of that which only the Christian worldview can account for. The atheist cannot account for universal, invariant, immaterial laws at all. How can the atheist, consistent with his worldview, account for unchanging laws in a constantly changing universe? He can't. His worldview undermines what is he doing! Admission of objectivity in the laws of logic or the external world is an admission that the atheist is secretly reliant on the Christian Deity in order to argue against the Christian Deity.
David Hume said that there was no empirically verifiable basis for the trustworthiness of our senses in experiencing the external world - our senses are trusted beforehand, a priori; the dependability of our senses is presupposed. Hume went on to profess, consistent with his strict empiricism and his naturalism, that the existence of the external world had no basis therefore in reason or logic! He was reduced to such absurdity by sheer consistency with his false premise. Bertrand Russell tried to save the sciences from the skepticism of Hume, but ultimately was reduced to the same skepticism of the external world by consistency with his starting premises. Strict empiricism and strict logical positivism descends to absurdity if consistent, and they are inconsistent to admit the objectivity of the external world. It is completely arbitrary for the atheist to admit the existence of the universal, invariant, immaterial laws of logic and yet reject the existence of the eternal, unchanging, immaterial God Almighty. Most do admit the reality of the external world and the laws of logic, however, they cannot come to this conclusion apart from presupposing God in their reason and logic, in their scientific induction, and in their objective data that presupposes objective truth. The atheist presupposes that which strict empiricism and naturalism refutes in order to make his case against the Christian God.

Some atheists argue that the laws of logic are conventions agreed upon by men, that they are not univeral, invariant, and immaterial. However, if this were true, then that democratic consensus who agreed to make illogic "logical" by, for instance, determining contradictory statements to have equal truth value, or by considering falsified data to be acceptable for scientific studies, would be just as logical as those who held these basic laws of logic to be dependable. This cannot be so. Laws are not conventions or human creations, whether they are the laws of logic or laws of science. Gravity existed before Newton studied and documented it just as the laws of logic existed before the Greeks wrote textbooks on logic. Logicians study logic, just like biologists study biological organisms, but logicians did not create logic any more than biologists created biological organisms. "A" does not equal "non-A" even if there are no humans around to document it, even if whole world of disagrees or cannot comprehend the proposition.

If the laws of logic were a human convention, then I can just start a new convention and reject the old, can't I? Okay, I'm starting a new convention: "Atheists are Christians! There! That's now logical and to say atheists are non-Christians is heretofore illogical!" Now, would you accept that as logical if I happened to get a country of imbeciles to agree with me? No, a logical atheist would not. The point is plain: laws of logic are universal, invariant, immaterial rules by which we judge all propositions and data. They are transcendent in origin and quality, because they reflect the laws by which God's own intellect and actions are governed and by which those made in His image should be governed. He is the necessary precondition to make sense of the laws of logic, as well as induction, morality, and reality in general. Furthermore, no sane person can live like logic is merely conventional. Debate itself presupposes that there are universal and invariant laws of logic. When each debate opponent tries to convince others of their view, they presuppose the attainability of objective truth through universal laws of logic and deny determinism. Even if they deny the freedom of man's will in theory, the debater in practice admits that men have free wills and can be intellectually persuaded to disregard certain views to adopt others. So atheists who debate Christians are their own worst enemies. In agreeing to debate, they have lost the debate.
Some have argued that the laws of logic are simply descriptive of how our minds evolved. However, the laws of logic do not describe how we think so much as it describes how we should think. If logic was primarily descriptive as they propose, then the philosopher who begged the question would be just as "logical" as the one who did not, the mathematician who thought that the shortest distance between two points was an arc would be just as "logical" as the one who thought it was a straight line, the scientist who believed that the sun did not exist would be just as "logical" as the one who did. Disagree with it in theory if you like but you cannot live like that, Mr. Atheist - your theory is contrary to universal human experience. Logic is an universal, invariant, immaterial entity which is presupposed, that is, embraced as true beforehand, in all of our studies - in calculus, geometry, astronomy, grammar, quantum physics, philosophy, epistemology, anthropology, all the way to the simple things of life like baking bread and telling your wife that you're going to the pharmacy to pick up your Haldol prescription. J The laws of logic are like mathematics: objective and external to self. They are not dependent on a democratic consensus or vote. General agreement that the sun rotates around the earth does not make it true any more than philosophers who beg the question and vote that they are logical are really being logical. A tree is not a bird even if no humans are around to document it. The laws of logic are prescriptive in philosophy as well as all of the sciences and literature, as all men intuitively know and demonstrate for us when the scientist instructs and corrects the ignorant, or when the philosopher instructs and corrects those that beg the question, or when the mathematician instructs and corrects the child who thinks 1 + 1 = 3, or when you try to correct the bad arguments of the theist.
Only the Christian worldview can account for immaterial laws of logic, because the universe was made by God who governs logically and expects and empowers intelligent creatures to learn about his universe in a reasonable fashion and govern themselves logically. So in order for you to get your arguments off the ground, Mr. Atheist, you have to presuppose God, and your guilt for resisting the Christian truth that you cannot completely abandon in practice only accumulates until the revelation of God's wrath on you on the