This statement begs the question and also demonstrates the need to answer the inductive skeptics. Since, as Zens says, God can work His will in whatever way He sees fit, He does not have to use the uniformity of nature. God can accomplish His goals without it and may have chosen to do so. Zens' Confusion of Materialism and Atheism Throughout Zens' defense of Bahnsen he commits the same error that Bahnsen himself made by systematically confusing atheism with materialism. Again and again Zens refers to atheists as materialists, yet not all atheists are materialists.
Materialists believe that everything is composed of matter.
Some atheists, however, have doubts about whether abstract objects such as numbers and mental events such as thoughts are material. What is so surprising about Zens' confusion is that I pointed it out in a 1996 internet paper that Zens links to his own paper. This confusion between atheism and materialism adversely affects Zens' argument in the last part of his paper. There he maintains that a materialist is committed to methodological solipsism. However, both his defense and his critique are woefully inadequate in that they either ignore my arguments or miscontrue them.