Presuppositions
Presuppositions and Your World View
What is a worldview? A worldview comprises one's collection of presuppositions, convictions, and values from which a person tries to understand and make sense out of the world and life. Every worldview starts with presuppositions, that is, beliefs that one presumes to be true without supporting independent evidence from other sources or systems.
Presuppositions and Science
Presuppositions vastly affect our interpretation of evidence. The problem (for the secular scientist) is that science itself is based on Christian presuppositions. Science is possible because God upholds the universe in a logical, orderly way and because God made our minds able to think and reason logically.
Presuppositional Evangelism
Science won’t convince; science won’t save. What is more important is for people to realize that they already have a source of truth that they trust for their presuppositions—and for some, it’s the wrong source. We want others to see that there’s no better source than the eyewitness account of the Creator of the Universe.
Science Not Neutral
Both creationists and evolutionists approach observational science—such as the laws of physics or the laws governing genetic inheritance—very similarly. However, when it comes to how the laws of physics and genetic inheritance came into existence in the past, the presuppositions of the scientists govern their interpretations and conclusions.
Articles About Presuppositions
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Flying "Squirrel" Disrupts Evolutionary TimelineDec. 16, 2006
Researchers discover a mammal, similar to a flying squirrel, that evolved "too soon."
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May 2, 2006 from Answers Magazine
What is a worldview? A worldview comprises one's collection of presuppositions, convictions and values from which a person tries to understand and make sense out of the world and life.
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A Newspaper with No PurposeSept. 3, 2005
Monbiot’s article was filled with the usual ill-informed and insulting invective against Christian things that some of us have come to expect from the "Guardian" newspaper.
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Magazine ArticleMissing? or Misinterpreted?March 1, 2004, pp. 22–23
‘Facts’ by themselves are essentially meaningless—they all need to be interpreted within a particular philosophical framework.
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Running Out of PuffMarch 31, 2003
One of the ways scientists work is to build models, based upon their presuppositions concerning the past, to explain (interpret) the evidence of the present.
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The “Evidence” for a Biblical WorldviewNov. 13, 2000
Most of us are familiar to some degree with Leonardo da Vinci the artist and his famous paintings such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
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Feedback ArticleScience Should not be Subservient to an IdeologyJune 27, 2000 from Feedback
AIG responds to a critic who who argues science shold be free from ideology.
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The Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved! Object Lesson 2Jan. 1, 2000
In order to understand what really happened, we need to view these animals through “Biblical glasses.”
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Magazine ArticlePseudo-Science in Your Daily PaperMarch 1, 1994, pp. 16–17
Under the heading ‘Opinion’ in the London Daily Telegraph (DT), Dr H. Cronin voiced her admiration for Darwin while castigating young-earth creationism as a fringe fad.’
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Magazine ArticleIt’s All in How You See Things—The PrimatesAug. 1, 1980, pp. 17–18
Most people committed to an idea often fail to see the difference between the observations and the interpretations they make of those observations.
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Magazine ArticleIt’s All in the Way We See ThingsJuly 1, 1979, pp. 4–5
This series of articles is designed to overcome the problem many people have when they study or read biology.
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