for the Week of January 30th, 2012
The Christian Worldview Is The Best Explanation
Detectives have a interesting job. We have to enter the crime scene and assess the evidence in front of us: is this a natural death or a homicide? If it's a homicide, which suspect best explains the evidence at the scene? While there may be a number of potential suspects that account for some or most of the evidence we see, one suspect will usually emerge as the "best" in that he or she most completely (and most reasonably) explains the evidence. This suspect simply makes the most sense of what we are seeing. As good detectives, we then "infer", from the fact that this suspect provides the best explanation (given the evidence) that the suspect is, in fact, the true killer. This process of "inferring to the best explanation" is sometimes called "abduction". As a detective myself, I understand the importance of examining a number of potential solutions (suspects) and carefully assessing which of these solutions best explains the evidence... (Read More) | 
