Van Til expresses this essential point most excellently, Dr. Eckleburg! Among other things, God is the ground of all being. The world is the way it is because its fundamental order was established by God in the Beginning. The Logos is God's Word, and it is not jibberish. By His Word, God created the world from nothing, and sustains it in good order to this day and forever.
This answers Leibniz's two great questions: "Why are things the way they are, and not some other way?" It also answers his other great question: "Why is there something, why not nothing at all?" (Because God wills it.)
Scientists must assume uniformities in nature; otherwise science has nothing to do. The fact that there is science at all is tacit proof of the existence of God.
I gladly stand corrected on the excerpt you quoted. :^)
Thank you so much for writing!
This answers Leibniz's two great questions: "Why are things the way they are, and not some other way?" It also answers his other great question: "Why is there something, why not nothing at all?" (Because God wills it.)
Scientists must assume uniformities in nature; otherwise science has nothing to do. The fact that there is science at all is tacit proof of the existence of God.
Amen, BB. Perfectly stated.
And as if this logic weren't enough, we have the very real, tangible, day-to-day data before us that illustrates the "good fruit" of those who are His, who love Him beyong all telling.
Who is happier than the Christian? Who faces adversity with as much strength as the Christian? Who produces as much goodness according to the God-given good fruit of faith as the Christian? Who wishes bounty for all the world and who wishes every man to know this very same joy and comfort and assurance?
Only the Christian.