Philosopher J. P. Moreland says we test worldviews by how well they explain “recalcitrant facts,” those stubborn facts that every theory must explain—or else be considered falsified. 5 And we can be confident that all idol-centered worldviews will be falsified. All will fail to account for at least some of those stubborn facts. Why? Because, as we learned in Principle #2, they are reductionistic. They try to define the whole in terms of a part. Inevitably their conceptual categories will be too narrow and limited. Some parts of reality will stick out of the box.
