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Presuppositionalism
Can we make sense of the world without God?
This article is one of a series of articles introduced by Flawed Reasons to Believe in God. If you're new to the series, you should read the Introduction before (or after) reading the material below.
Arguing about the existence of God with a presuppositionalist can be as frustrating as trying to escape a maze with no exit. The Darth Dawkins variety — I'll call them "presups" for short — will insist that you cannot use logic to dispute God's existence because God is the grounding of logic. In other words, the presup will insist that the fact you are attempting to use logic to argue with them proves there is a God. Unseat their argument by pointing out that their presuppositionalism and their claim about logic is an unproven assertion and that they need to demonstrate both. Philosophers use the word grounding to mean the fundamental explanation of a given thing. You might point out to them that God-breathed logic should be up to providing a demonstration that God created logic. If they refuse to prove that God grounds logic, walk away. Arguing with such a presup is like arguing with a broken record. They will continually claim using logic to argue with them proves God's existence because, without God, logic wouldn't exist.