Week 4 – Reason

What is ‘Reason?

• Reason is man's tool of understanding.
• Reason is the process of thinking. Its fundamental attribute is clarity.
• Reason requires clear, identifiable building blocks.The ideas must be clear and definable.
• Reason is organized. It is systematic and purposeful. It concentrates on fundamentals, and makes pertinent associations. Since clarity is the purpose of reason, it must use clear methods, as well as clear tools. It must use logic, deduction, and induction.
• Reason is the method of thinking in an organized, clear way to achieve knowledge and understanding.
• Your ability to Reason Requires:
  1. Immaterial, unchangeable laws of logic
  2. You are conscious and have free will
  3. You have a mind, not just a brain

The Immaterial Laws of Logic:

• Law of the Identity
• Law of the Excluded Middle
• Law of Non-Contradiction

Reason — Key Points

Atheists claim to be champions of reason.  How do atheists exempt themselves from their own theories?

• Atheists even organize “reason” rallies and call themselves “free thinkers.”
• The problem is there is no “free” or thinking going on if atheism is true.
• If we are just molecules in motion as atheistic materialism asserts, then we are nothing but moist robots whose every thought is the result of the non-rational laws of physics.
• “Free thinking” can’t exist in such a world. So why should we believe anything the atheist thinks or says, including his thoughts about atheism?
• Without an ability to think freely, science is lost too.
• Atheists try to use immaterial entities—such as the laws of logic and our ability to reason—while claiming nothing immaterial exists.

• As C. S. Lewis put it, “Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true,” which would include the science of prominent atheists, Sam Harris, Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, and everyone else."