WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.259 Chapter 6. Breaking News. Your thoughts are just 00:00:03.259 --> 00:00:06.400 brain farts. Ladies and gentlemen, hold on to 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:08.839 your neurons because we have another totally 00:00:08.839 --> 00:00:11.900 scientific breakthrough. According to evolutionary 00:00:11.900 --> 00:00:15.259 materialism, your thoughts, emotions, logic, 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:17.920 and deepest convictions are nothing more than 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:20.539 meaningless chemical accidents bouncing around 00:00:20.539 --> 00:00:23.879 in your head, kind of like a soda can fizzing 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:27.100 and thinking it's making decisions. That's right. 00:00:27.550 --> 00:00:30.449 Your love for your family, just some random neurons 00:00:30.449 --> 00:00:33.369 firing for survival. Your moral convictions, 00:00:33.789 --> 00:00:36.929 nothing but biological conditioning. Your belief 00:00:36.929 --> 00:00:41.009 in science, also just a chemical illusion. Breaking 00:00:41.009 --> 00:00:44.270 news, you are literally a self -aware bowl of 00:00:44.270 --> 00:00:47.770 oatmeal. But wait, if our thoughts are just random 00:00:47.770 --> 00:00:50.549 chemical reactions, how do we know which ones 00:00:50.549 --> 00:00:53.810 are true? Evolution's thought experiment. Can 00:00:53.810 --> 00:00:56.909 you trust a brain built by randomness? Let's 00:00:56.909 --> 00:01:00.950 say we build two robots. Robot A, carefully designed, 00:01:01.270 --> 00:01:04.010 programmed with logic, and follows consistent 00:01:04.010 --> 00:01:07.670 rules to function correctly. Robot B, thrown 00:01:07.670 --> 00:01:10.930 together by an explosion in a junkyard, and whatever 00:01:10.930 --> 00:01:14.310 circuits happen to land in the right place. Well, 00:01:14.409 --> 00:01:17.370 that's what it works with. Now, which robot do 00:01:17.370 --> 00:01:20.430 you trust to give you reliable information? If 00:01:20.430 --> 00:01:23.329 you're smart, you'd pick Robot A, the one with 00:01:23.329 --> 00:01:26.069 intentional design. But according to evolution, 00:01:26.370 --> 00:01:29.150 our minds are built like Robot B, just thrown 00:01:29.150 --> 00:01:32.230 together by time, chance, and a whole lot of 00:01:32.230 --> 00:01:35.469 dumb luck. This is called the evolutionary argument 00:01:35.469 --> 00:01:39.709 against naturalism, Ian. It was proposed by philosopher 00:01:39.709 --> 00:01:42.950 Alvin Plantinga, and it highlights the logical 00:01:42.950 --> 00:01:46.049 problem of believing in reason if our reasoning 00:01:46.049 --> 00:01:49.030 abilities evolved through irrational and unguided 00:01:49.030 --> 00:01:51.890 survival mechanisms. But let's take it a step 00:01:51.890 --> 00:01:55.439 further. But weight science relies on rationality. 00:01:55.739 --> 00:01:58.900 Atheist scientists spend their entire careers 00:01:58.900 --> 00:02:02.879 demanding logic, reason, and predictability in 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:06.359 science. And yet, they turn around and claim 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:09.400 that our ability to think rationally came from 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:12.500 mindless, unguided, survival -based instincts. 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:15.840 Let's break this contradiction down. They demand 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:19.400 logical arguments. But say logic itself is just 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:23.000 a biological adaptation for survival. They expect 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:26.979 rational conclusions, but say rationality evolved 00:02:26.979 --> 00:02:30.719 through random, irrational processes. They trust 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:33.840 their own thinking, but say thinking is just 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:38.039 neurons firing with no foundation in truth. So, 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:41.439 if all thoughts are just accidental brain chemistry, 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:45.000 why should we trust atheist scientists' thoughts 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:48.460 any more than our own? Logical fallacy alert. 00:02:48.580 --> 00:02:52.020 If evolution is true, then all thoughts, including 00:02:52.020 --> 00:02:55.280 the belief in evolution itself, are just neuron 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:58.639 firings with no guarantee of truth. If consciousness 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:01.860 evolved for survival, truth doesn't matter. According 00:03:01.860 --> 00:03:05.180 to evolutionary psychology, your brain didn't 00:03:05.180 --> 00:03:08.860 evolve for truth. It evolved for survival. That 00:03:08.860 --> 00:03:11.520 means it doesn't care about what is true, just 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:14.539 what helps you stay alive. Uh -oh, that means 00:03:14.539 --> 00:03:17.659 your brain is built to believe lies if they help 00:03:17.659 --> 00:03:21.360 you survive. Imagine a caveman. He looks at a 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:25.240 river and thinks, A. Water is necessary for hydration. 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:29.740 Logical conclusion. B. The water god will eat 00:03:29.740 --> 00:03:33.219 me if I don't drink. Irrational, but keeps him 00:03:33.219 --> 00:03:36.379 alive. Evolution doesn't care which thought is 00:03:36.379 --> 00:03:39.479 true, only that the caveman drinks the water 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:42.669 and doesn't die. which means every single thought 00:03:42.669 --> 00:03:45.610 you have, including belief in evolution, has 00:03:45.610 --> 00:03:49.150 no guarantee of being true. Ladies and gentlemen, 00:03:49.289 --> 00:03:52.550 this is called a self -refuting worldview. If 00:03:52.550 --> 00:03:55.289 thoughts are just chemical reactions meant for 00:03:55.289 --> 00:03:58.349 survival, then there's no reason to trust anything 00:03:58.349 --> 00:04:01.289 you believe, including the belief that thoughts 00:04:01.289 --> 00:04:05.349 are just chemical reactions. Science says, your 00:04:05.349 --> 00:04:08.930 thoughts are meaningless, but trust ours. Alright 00:04:08.930 --> 00:04:12.069 folks, let's break this down. If reason is just 00:04:12.069 --> 00:04:15.229 a survival tool, how do scientists know their 00:04:15.229 --> 00:04:18.230 theories are true? If our brains evolved from 00:04:18.230 --> 00:04:21.610 irrational processes, why should we trust their 00:04:21.610 --> 00:04:24.730 ability to be rational? If all thoughts are just 00:04:24.730 --> 00:04:28.110 chemical reactions, what makes one idea better 00:04:28.110 --> 00:04:31.089 than another? This would be like, your chemical 00:04:31.089 --> 00:04:34.230 reactions are wrong and mine are right. The way 00:04:34.230 --> 00:04:37.550 your soda confizzes is incorrect. it's absolute 00:04:37.550 --> 00:04:41.189 nonsense yet atheists want you to trust their 00:04:41.189 --> 00:04:44.029 thoughts even though their own world view says 00:04:44.029 --> 00:04:47.550 thoughts have no ultimate meaning example why 00:04:47.550 --> 00:04:50.449 this is impossible all right let's apply this 00:04:50.449 --> 00:04:53.449 to real life imagine two scientists are arguing 00:04:53.449 --> 00:04:56.170 over the best way to make a spaceship scientist 00:04:56.170 --> 00:04:59.509 a uses logic physics and mathematics to design 00:04:59.509 --> 00:05:03.199 a working spacecraft Scientist B shakes a box 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:05.980 of random Legos and expects them to assemble 00:05:05.980 --> 00:05:09.620 into a spaceship by chance. According to atheist 00:05:09.620 --> 00:05:12.740 materialism, Scientist B's method is exactly 00:05:12.740 --> 00:05:16.000 how your brain came to exist. Does that sound 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.879 like a reliable system for truth? Exactly. If 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:22.240 randomness produced your thoughts, there is no 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:24.819 reason to trust your own thinking, let alone 00:05:24.819 --> 00:05:28.459 someone else's. The Bible had it right all along. 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.899 While atheist scientists try to convince you 00:05:31.899 --> 00:05:34.079 that you're just a clump of neurons pretending 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:37.259 to think, the Bible had the answer from the start. 00:05:37.500 --> 00:05:42.040 Genesis 1 .27 God created man in his own image, 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:45.560 not a lucky monkey with brain chemicals. Proverbs 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:48.819 1 .7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of 00:05:48.819 --> 00:05:52.139 knowledge. Not random mutations are the foundation 00:05:52.139 --> 00:05:56.420 of wisdom. Colossians 2 .3 In Christ are hidden 00:05:56.420 --> 00:05:59.459 all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Knowledge, 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:02.579 wisdom, and reasoning come from God, not blind 00:06:02.579 --> 00:06:05.740 chemical accidents. Meanwhile, science says, 00:06:06.019 --> 00:06:09.279 bro, trust us, your brain is just fizzing chemicals, 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:11.959 but you can totally rely on our conclusions. 00:06:12.500 --> 00:06:16.339 Yeah, no thanks. Final thoughts. Who's really 00:06:16.339 --> 00:06:19.459 trusting science? Science depends on rational 00:06:19.459 --> 00:06:22.800 thought. Evolution says rational thought is just 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:25.649 brain chemistry. If thoughts are just chemical 00:06:25.649 --> 00:06:28.649 reactions, truth doesn't matter. But they still 00:06:28.649 --> 00:06:31.769 want you to trust their thoughts. So tell me 00:06:31.769 --> 00:06:34.810 again, who's really trusting science here? If 00:06:34.810 --> 00:06:38.170 you trust truth, logic, and rationality, guess 00:06:38.170 --> 00:06:40.970 what? You just admitted they must come from something 00:06:40.970 --> 00:06:44.470 beyond material processes. But don't worry. The 00:06:44.470 --> 00:06:47.250 atheists will be back tomorrow, using rational 00:06:47.250 --> 00:06:50.410 arguments to prove that rationality is just an 00:06:50.410 --> 00:06:53.459 illusion. while cashing their research grants.