Well, so the naturalist, as Lewis says, thinks that nature is a whole show. So everything in nature

has to be explained in terms of nature and ultimately in terms of matter, energy, physical laws,

quantum mechanics. Everything has to be explained in terms of that. And in particular, their naturalist

believes that nature is essentially blind. ID, the future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent

design. If our minds are the product of a blind and aimless process, what reason do we have to believe what we think?

But if we can be rational because a rational intelligence designed life in the universe, how does that change how we should think about thinking?

Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott.

Today I conclude my conversation with Rebecca Valerius

about an essay she recently wrote

unpacking the argument from reason

and its implications for Darwinism,

materialism, atheism,

and for that matter, ID, and even AI.

Rebecca has a BS in biochemistry

and a master's in apologetics.

She teaches advanced chemistry, biology, and apologetics at a classical Christian school in the Dallas area.

Rebecca is also an editor and contributing writer with Shadowlands Dispatch, an online journal dedicated to Christian apologetics.

Welcome back, Rebecca.

Thank you for having me.

In the first half of our conversation,

you helped us unpack the argument from reason,

as C.S. Lewis formulates it in his book, Miracles.

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