Three Fatal Steps

In case you've just joined us, I'm going through C. Van Til's 1939 article "A Calvin University" (posted in its entirety a few days ago) in an effort to illicit an appreciation for Van Til's writings and offer some observations. The three fatal steps discussed today are mentioned about half way through the article.

What kind of trade off is the Christian expected to make if he wants intellectual respectability with the academic/scientific establishment? In a word, he is to reaffirm the autonomous antitheistic reasoning of the Fall by following three fatal steps:

1. "[A]ssume that the facts that you meet are brute, uninterrupted facts." (God doesn't exist.)

2. "[A]ccept the position that theoretically any hypothesis is as good as any other." (God exists on the same level as us.)

3. "[T]est the truth of any hypothesis by experience." (God's existence is irrelevant.)

I do not think most Christians realize the implications involved in taking the steps.

More on this later.