Kreitsauce's Musings

J. P. Moreland lists five questions that all worldviews must answer:

1. What is real?
2. What are the nature and limits of knowledge?
3. What is the good life?
4. Who is a really good person?
5. How does one become a really good person?

Now I know these are not the usual questions a person asks about a worldview. Usually it’s all about origin and functioning of the physical world, but that’s not all there is to reality. There must be things that are accounted for that extend beyond matter and energy.

In naturalism, the physical world is the only reality. Knowledge is merely an understanding of that physical world through the sciences. The good life is whatever you choose for yourself, a good person consists of bettering yourself according to your own definition of “bettering”, and there’s no real advice to be offered in bettering yourself because everything is ultimately worthless and empty. We only have to wait for death of life on this rock orbiting our home star, and the universe will ultimately suffer heat death.

What kind of life is that? You might feel more like a stoic if you bravely faced the dark night of being utterly meaningless, but I really think that naturalism fails to deliver anything and is more of a cop out. Naturalism is a shallow worldview, incapable of offering satisfying answers. As Moreland says, Jesus Christ is the only game in town.

Tags: agnosticism, Apologetics, Atheism, Bible, christianity, God, Morality, Philosophy, pluralism, religion, sacred, secularism, truth, Worldview

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