A More Excellent Way

Over the last several articles, we have compared the Christian worldview with materialism. Along the way, we have utilized philosopher Nancy Pearcey’s 5-principle model to guide that comparison by first identifying materialism’s idol; second, by identifying how materialism’s idol ultimately reduces the value of human beings; and third, by identifying how materialism contradicts what we know about the world. The next step in Pearcey’s model is to define how materialism’s worldview contradicts itself.Understanding the internal contradictions is a critical step, because worldviews that hold contradictory premises are necessarily false. Recently, we identified one of materialism’s contradictions as its denial of any and all immaterial realities (consciousness, rationality, free will, etc.), arguing that only material things composed of atoms and molecules truly exist.

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