Category: Presuppositionalism

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Gordon Clark vs Cornelius Van Til Controversy

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The following are excerpts from the paper The Gordon Clark and Cornelius Van Til Controversy by Jared Moore [PDF/MP3] and give a good summary of the controversy: Clark believed that man’s knowledge and God’s knowledge are quantitatively different but not qualitatively different. Instead of a two-fold theory of truth, he believed that truth is one. If man knows an item of truth, and both God and man know the identical item, then on this item God’s knowledge and man’s knowledge coincide. Yet, man can never know exhaustively and completely God’s knowledge of any truth in all its relationships and implications because … Continue reading Gordon Clark vs Cornelius Van Til Controversy

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A start for a philosophy of Christian science

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This is a response to a Christian that attacked intelligent design and my attempt to give groundwork for a Christian perspective on science. He wrote an article proclaiming Intelligent design is not scientific and just a “philosophical worldview.” This will be an analysis of that position, science, and intelligent design’s validity. I’ll be approaching from a reformed Christian’s perspective. Here are my goals: 1. My attempt will be to correct a naive view of science and shallow criticism of intelligent design: A) Will be my criticisms and B) my agreements. 2. My attempt will be to give a framework for … Continue reading A start for a philosophy of Christian science