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Memorizing hundreds of fallacies has no power to keep anyone from deception. For several reasons, people who study logic are often more blinded by illusion than those who don’t study logic. For one, those who memorize fallacies often don’t understand the terms. They passed the test in school. They don’t understand how to apply those memorized definitions rationally. They accuse others of committing fallacies when those people haven’t committed fallacies. And they can’t see their own fallacies. They twist the rules of logic to fit their desired conclusions. They blatantly use fallacies to prove their points. They begin every bit of reasoning with bare claims. That’s how they deceive others. Mostly, they deceive themselves.

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Humans invest an amazing amount of time and effort trying to know the truth. But ungodly thinkers can never find truth regardless of their efforts since ungodly thinkers refuse to acknowledge God. Logic and epistemology classes teach about valid form and many fallacies, but that doesn’t help. It’s still easy to make statements that seem true when they’re not true since the flesh finds many ways to deceive human minds. All godless thinking fails because godless thinkers can’t have a premise they know is true.

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Ungodly thinkers make no distinction between revealed truth and made-up stuff. They think every thought comes from assumptions. However, assumptions consist of made-up stuff. So they make up stories to pretend it’s sane to base thinking on assumptions. That’s why they can believe the lies they like as firmly as they believe the revealed truth they like. They deny the lies they don’t like with the same confidence they deny the truth they don’t like. Alternately, they try to play mind games with the definition of the word “assumption” and confuse the issue. Of course, Christians are in the same mess when we follow rationalized theologies, organizations, or intellects instead of following God’s leading.

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Ungodly thinkers often are right in their conclusions because God reveals reality to them just as He reveals reality to every person. However, they refuse to give Him glory or to acknowledge Him for His gift to them. And we understand that when God says He reveals Himself to every person, He includes those who resist Him. ^{(Romans 1:19-20)} So, even those who resist Him have revelation of right and wrong, yet they refuse to acknowledge God because they love darkness rather than light. ^{(John 3:19)} God reveals right and wrong to them, but they can only react pragmatically to what God reveals since they refuse to acknowledge God. They refuse to acknowledge the source of knowledge, so they don’t distinguish between what God reveals and what brute-beast minds fabricate. And because they don’t want to worship God or serve Him, God turns them over to their own reprobate minds. ^{(Romans 1:28)} They also know that they’ll receive judgment for the things they do, and yet they do them. ^{(Romans 1:30)}

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A World of Fallacies

As already demonstrated, ungodly thinkers have to base all their thinking on fallacies. However, that’s not to say ungodly thinkers can’t be successful or can never be right. They can succeed at doing evil as demonic powers, interdimensional beings, spirit guides, work with them. They can succeed because God reveals parts of reality to them through His creation, and He cares for them even though they refuse to acknowledge Him or thank Him. Since they won’t acknowledge God, they can’t tell the difference between the truth God reveals and the fabrications of the fallen human mind. He provided them a brute-beast mind that can reason pragmatically, but it can’t be rational. It can’t consider the truth. It can only guess about what seems to work at the moment.

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It makes sense for ungodly thinkers to avoid scientific issues since science isn’t on their side, and philosophy can’t help them either. We’ve already understood why ungodly thinkers have to base both science and philosophy on fallacies. No one can reason to any truth without God’s revelation. We’ve already seen that ungodly persuaders use words like “science,” “evidence,” and “logic” as magic words, but those words mean “made-up stuff” when ungodly persuaders use them. And we’ve discovered that ungodly thinkers can never think based on substance but always think based on made-up stuff. So when they speak of science, evidence, and logic, they never touch real science, evidence, or logic. Instead, they can only present phantom science, phantom evidence, and phantom logic.

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And though ungodly thinkers like to think logic and science can only work for ungodly people, we found out that just the opposite is the case. They like to believe following Christ is irrational, but not following Christ assures irrational thinking. Given the way logic and reason work, ungodly thinking can’t possibly result in rational thought. Neither logic nor science has any basis in the ungodly thinker’s worldview, but both logic and science make perfect sense for the person Christ is leading, teaching, and correcting. Godly thinking can always give a sane reason for any belief based on divine revelation, but ungodly thinkers can’t present real evidence for their claims. Ungodly thinkers use fallacies to make fake evidence seem real. We’ve fully explored this fact on this journey, but we also find ungodly thinkers continually confirm this to us every time we confront them. In this light, here’s a comment about another debate:

“We, along with two other men, attended the debate anticipating a thorough discussion of the scientific evidences; however, we were sadly mistaken. During over 1 ½ hours of discourse between them the two U.T. professors failed to present one single argument favoring the evolution theory. Mind you, they introduced not one affirmative argument which defended evolution! It was thoroughly disappointing! One would expect, as we did, that men with Ph.D. degrees and supposed specialists in their fields could give at least a defense of the theory.”

“However, their speeches abounded with broad generalizations completely evading the real issue. They constantly strayed into philosophical and religious areas, when the debate was supposed to be centered around scientific information. In fact, they made fun of conservative biblical interpretation and tried to cast reflection on anyone not believing in evolution. Yet the whole time they offered no scientific material to support their opinionated speeches. They repeatedly said they believed evolution to be a better explanation of life than creation, but were utterly destitute of reasons WHY they felt this way!” ~ icr.org

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We’re searching for truth. Ungodly thinkers sometimes try to make this search into a game of wits, but this search isn’t a game. It’s not about winning or losing. It’s about sanity, but ungodly thinkers don’t understand we ought to be searching for truth rather than playing mind games. Without the truth, there is no sanity. No one can know the truth without Christ. Since untruth can’t be rational and no one can know the truth without Christ, ungodly thinking is always irrational.

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Anyone can know Jesus Christ. We know this because we know Him, and He reveals this fact to us. He reveals that whoever seeks Him finds Him. He continues to reveal more of Himself and His will to us. He leads us, corrects us, and purifies us, and we know many people who also know Him and are led by Him in the same way we are.

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Let’s review something we glanced at previously. The English word “logic” comes from the Greek word “logos.” God uses the word “logos” in referring to Jesus Christ in the Bible—Jesus is the Logos. “In the beginning was the Word [Logos], and the Word [Logos] was with God, and the Word [Logos] was God.” ^{(John 1:1)} And Jesus is also the Truth. ^{(John 14:6)} Since truth is another word for reality, Jesus is the Reality. The word “science” comes from the Latin to know. “Science” means knowledge, and all knowledge is hidden in Christ. ^{(Colossians 2:3)} Christ Jesus is the revealer of the scientific method and the revealer of science (knowledge). He leads us into truth and righteousness. (end quote)