I love this podcast, but at minute 20 I think you are repeating something a little silly. We can trust reason because it works; it allows us to build airplanes and radios. That reason arises through evolution or as a some psychological process can make it limited---perhaps extremely limited---but can hardly make it "flawed". As much as I like disagreeing with Lewis and Chesterton on anything, the way this is expressed is clumsy. Personally, I believe modern mathematics and physics has clearly shown us some of the limits of reason (e.g., Godel, undecidability, P=NP, etc.) but has also re-enchanted the world. We now have black holes, and highschool kids demonstrate mysteries with the two-slit experiment. Moreover, we are as far as ever from having any explanation for how subjective mind arises from objective matter. Reason is the instrument that will lead people to Christ, not away from Him.
If the brain is the end product of a random, goalless, blind, deaf, mindless, unguided process (ie, evolution) could you ever truly TRUST the convictions or conclusions of your brain? No. You could not. Furthermore if ultimately at bottom the brain is wholly dependent on the FIXED laws of physics and chemistry... are you in fact really thinking? No. It's reactionary. Chesterton's assertion that reason is a matter of faith ("the faith that our thoughts are in relation to reality at all") is truthfully a strong argument against atheism, so much so that atheist philosophers like Thomas Nagel and John Gray to one extent or another have conceded that it is indeed a problem because if you cannot trust the rationality of the brain then you cannot use arguments from the brain for or against anything, including the fields of science and mathematics that the brain has formulated. Jesus Christ Almighty God bless you all
@@cassandraseven3478 As the Bible says in the beginning was the Word (Jesus) and the Word (Jesus) was with God (Father Jehovah) and the Word (Jesus) was God (Father Jehovah) which shows that out of the immaterial came the material, from the Holy Spirit came the physical realm. Physicists have begrudgingly admitted from time to time that information proceeded the material universe. When physicists use terms like "nothing" they really refer to the quantum vacuum which of course is not nothing but it is basically the least amount of something following the complete absence of anything. So when you hear people like Lawrence Krauss claiming that the universe made itself from nothing it's a complete lie because the quantum vacuum is indeed something which produced something else, etc. I'm reminded of conversations I've had about the human soul and I always ask the question, "Human beings, as well as everything else in this universe, is mostly comprised of space between atoms. Where is Rufus in the midst of all this space?," which is a rather rhetorical question because only something invisible and not quantifiable can explain my personal being in the midst of all this space. In my view the mind is the soul. Jesus Christ Almighty God bless you all
Nevermind Chesterton opposed to eugenics, great episode!
I love this podcast, but at minute 20 I think you are repeating something a little silly. We can trust reason because it works; it allows us to build airplanes and radios. That reason arises through evolution or as a some psychological process can make it limited---perhaps extremely limited---but can hardly make it "flawed". As much as I like disagreeing with Lewis and Chesterton on anything, the way this is expressed is clumsy. Personally, I believe modern mathematics and physics has clearly shown us some of the limits of reason (e.g., Godel, undecidability, P=NP, etc.) but has also re-enchanted the world. We now have black holes, and highschool kids demonstrate mysteries with the two-slit experiment. Moreover, we are as far as ever from having any explanation for how subjective mind arises from objective matter. Reason is the instrument that will lead people to Christ, not away from Him.
If the brain is the end product of a random, goalless, blind, deaf, mindless, unguided process (ie, evolution) could you ever truly TRUST the convictions or conclusions of your brain? No. You could not.
Furthermore if ultimately at bottom the brain is wholly dependent on the FIXED laws of physics and chemistry... are you in fact really thinking? No. It's reactionary.
Chesterton's assertion that reason is a matter of faith ("the faith that our thoughts are in relation to reality at all") is truthfully a strong argument against atheism, so much so that atheist philosophers like Thomas Nagel and John Gray to one extent or another have conceded that it is indeed a problem because if you cannot trust the rationality of the brain then you cannot use arguments from the brain for or against anything, including the fields of science and mathematics that the brain has formulated.
Jesus Christ Almighty God bless you all
There was "mind" long before the material worlds were formed.
Does the brain create consciousness? Or consciousness create the brain?
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As the Bible says in the beginning was the Word (Jesus) and the Word (Jesus) was with God (Father Jehovah) and the Word (Jesus) was God (Father Jehovah) which shows that out of the immaterial came the material, from the Holy Spirit came the physical realm. Physicists have begrudgingly admitted from time to time that information proceeded the material universe.
When physicists use terms like "nothing" they really refer to the quantum vacuum which of course is not nothing but it is basically the least amount of something following the complete absence of anything. So when you hear people like Lawrence Krauss claiming that the universe made itself from nothing it's a complete lie because the quantum vacuum is indeed something which produced something else, etc.
I'm reminded of conversations I've had about the human soul and I always ask the question, "Human beings, as well as everything else in this universe, is mostly comprised of space between atoms. Where is Rufus in the midst of all this space?," which is a rather rhetorical question because only something invisible and not quantifiable can explain my personal being in the midst of all this space. In my view the mind is the soul.
Jesus Christ Almighty God bless you all
@@HomicideHenry "Jehovah" should be "Yahweh". It was a transcription blunder by a monk. Maybe this brief reply won't be deleted.