These authors are evaluating Christian arguments by what some have called “strong rationalism.”2 Its proponents laid down what was called the “verification principle,” namely, that no one should believe a proposition unless it can be proved rationally by logic or empirically by sense experience.3 What is meant by the word “proved”? Proof, in this view, is an argument so strong that no person whose logical faculties are operating properly would have any reason for disbelieving it. Atheists and agnostics ask for this kind of “proof” for God, but are not alone in holding to strong rationalism.
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