Good morning, everybody.

Steve Moldy from Free Domain and got an email from a listener who makes the following case.

The secular model does not have God in it, so it also does not have the soul, nor the conscience,

nor free will either, since those are embedded in the soul.

However, in reality, conscience and free will clearly exist. Therefore, the secular model is

clearly false and fake. Apart from that, one reason Christianity is superior to philosophy

is that idiots can't understand

philosophy and the world is mostly idiots. It's a very short, succinct, and vivid argument,

and I appreciate that. I appreciate the argument. I appreciate the criticism. And I certainly do,

as always, appreciate the challenge to respond.

This is a good argument which says we can judge the existence of something by its effects,

even if we cannot perceive it directly.

We can't see gravity like a thing, like an object.

We can't see gravity, but we see its effects and feel its effects all the time.

The argument would be you can't see

air, but we know physiologically that we breathe air. Air contains oxygen. Oxygen is necessary

for our eyes to function. Therefore, the fact that our eyes are working, even though our eyes can't see air, the fact that

our eyes are working means that the air exists. And that's good. That's good. If you're in

jail cell and you can only see the shadow in the courtyard, you can't see the object casting

the shadow, but you can see the shadow. Therefore,

you know the object exists. You may even know some, if it's an obelisk or the statue of a man

on a horse, you would have some idea. So you don't have to perceive the thing directly.

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