"If the axioms of other secularists
are not nonsense, they are nonetheless axioms. Every system must start
somewhere, and it cannot have started before it starts. A naturalist
might amend the Logical Positivists’ principle and make it say that all
knowledge is derived from sensation. This is not nonsense, but it is
still an empirically unverifiable axiom. If it is not
self-contradictory, it is at least without empirical justification.
Other arguments against empiricism need not be given here: The point is
that no system can deduce its axioms.
"The
inference is this: No one can consistently object to Christianity being
based on an indemonstrable axiom. If the secularists exercise their
privilege of basing their theorems on axioms, then so may Christians. If
the former refuse to accept our axioms, then they can have no logical
objection to our rejecting theirs. Accordingly, we reject the very basis
of atheism, Logical Positivism, and, in general, empiricism. Our axiom
shall be that God has spoken. More completely, God has spoken in the
Bible. More precisely, what the Bible says, God has spoken."
Gordon H. Clark (2013-09-19T04:00:00+00:00). In Defense of Theology (Kindle Locations 319-327). Kindle Edition.
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