Today we start another debate on the existence of God with Martin, a self described Presuppositionalist. Martin hits the ground running with a number of questions as follows:
Dear Dan,
Thank you for taking the time to talk with me and also your gracious offer to debate via your blog. I don't know if this qualifies as an opening statement, but they are questions I have for you.
What is your standard for truth?
You have stated that your standard for truth is reality.
So then I ask:
1. When you say your standard of truth is reality, how are you not begging the question that your reasoning of what reality actually is, is valid? Must we just arbitrarily assume your interpretation is accurate?
2. On what do you base your assumption that you can match your claims for what is true to reality?
3. As you have no known mechanism from a strictly atheist/naturalist worldview for even the ORIGIN of reason much less the implementation of it, to say it exists, therefore it exists, therefore it works, is begging the question.
From your worldview you can be no more certain of your reason than the patient at Bellevue strapped to his bed.
Or can you? CAN you KNOW things for certain? If so, what do you know and how EXACTLY do you KNOW it?
Sincerely,
Marty
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