The Consistency of Nature is Only Rational in the Biblical Worldview

The morning of the one-year anniversary of my wife's passing, I wanted to commemorate the day. It began by going to the Hudson River in the morning. Those parks open at sunrise, which I looked up online. It happens on a predictable basis. Why should it?

Some folks do not like this, but presuppositional apologetics has its ultimate starting point in the authority of God's Word and character as revealed in the Bible. Science, logic, and other things are not possible in a worldview of atheistic materialism; they only make sense in a biblical worldview.

Morning on the Hudson River, Unsplash / Cowboy Bob Sorensen

We all have presuppositions and an ultimate starting point. The sun will rise tomorrow, a lighter will make a candle burn, pictures on the wall will not float upward. Things happened before, so they will again — but that is circular reasoning! God holds the universe together, making logic (inductive and other kinds) possible. From there, science is possible. And mathematics. And...

If I asked you this question: “How do you know the sun will rise tomorrow?” What would you say? I’m guessing that you’d be pretty confident that it just will. But have you ever thought about why you’re so confident the sun will rise tomorrow? I mean, imagine waking up tomorrow morning, looking out the window, and noticing that it’s pitch-black outside because the sun did not rise?1 Your first instinct might be to think that maybe there’s something wrong with the window, or maybe your eyes are playing a trick on you, or some other reason to explain why you’re not seeing the sun.

I'd be much obliged if y'all would read both parts of this article. The philosophy is not overwhelming and I found it to be less work to get through than I expected. To read it see:

• How Do You Know the Sun Will Rise Tomorrow? and
• The Biblical Worldview Is the Only Answer for Induction, which also deals with possible objections from atheists