Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 5:15:32 PM
Metaphysics has to do with the immaterial things that lie behind scientific inquiry like the nature of reality of being of knowing and morality. So it is curious that the era of atheistic materialism has given us the death of metaphysics. How does materialism consume the immaterial? But this is what is happening because it is a false view of reality.
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2009/11/11/morality_without_god
The Darwinist admits that in his view of reality there is no absolute morality. But here is his dilemma, how does he know? He is right that there is no absolute because he has removed from his world view any reference to the absolute. So what is the meaning when a materialist makes a truth claim? We call it nonsense.
Yet, according to Romans 1 he claims wisdom apart from the knowledge of God. Finite man claims to know reality based on his senses and his reason. This is more nonsense, because autonomous man has no basis for knowing truth. His view of reality is based on an impersonal beginning, meaning that living and personal beings originated without design or purpose from the random arrangements of matter and energy.
The infinite and personal I AM is the source of truth and man’s reference to the absolute. Apart from the self-revealed God of the Bible, man will always suppress the truth and exchange the knowledge of God for nonsense. The rise of radical naturalism marks the death of metaphysics and the death of truth and the death of morality.
‘The way of a fool is right in his own eyes…’ [Proverbs 12:15]