Is It Possible to Justify Reason on An Atheistic Worldview?

Atheist Matt Dillahunty & Matt Slick Debate

Arnau Perez Ninot
4 min readJun 15, 2024
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Is secular humanism superior to Christianity?

That’s what atheist Matt Dillahunty and Matt Slick Debated.

To which Slick made the following point:

If one of the worldviews is by itself self-refuting it can’t be in any way superior to its non-self-refuting alternative.

In an attempt to prove how secular humanism is self-refuting Slick posits the following question?

Can we ground the reliability of the mind to interpret reality into something physical and trust its outcomes?

If the universe is Godless, then everything there is can only be explained through physical, materialistic processes.

That includes the whole of the human experience.

But…

Is that reasonable?

The materialistic view

If the universe can only be explained through natural processes, the laws of physics, chemistry…

How does a physical brain produce proper…

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