One of the central problems of our culture is that many people live their lives based on that second kind of faith. These assumptions are handed down to the majority of educators, who do their best to pass them on to our children. In our greatest universities, writes Phillip Johnson in his excellent new book, Reason in the Balance , the doctrine that nature is all there is . . . This deification of science is the cause of much concern for Christians. Americans must realize that empiricism can only take them so far, and that we all rely on authorities to tell us about things we haven t experienced.
Lives led by real people consistently defy the science explains all school of thinking.
And yet the hardened empiricist relies on logic every day. The same could be said for free will, thought, and other immaterial realities. Scientists, and too many other Americans, have a tendency to rule out everything immaterial because they cannot see it. But to rule out all immaterial things is to rule out the existence of the very thoughts that cause you to conclude that immaterial things cannot exist. But sometimes we rely on other authorities.