Cornelius Van Til

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Cornelius Van Til (1895–1987), Dutch-American Reformed theologian at Westminster Theological Seminary, founder of presuppositional apologetics. Held that there is no neutral ground from which to argue for or against God, that all reasoning presupposes the Christian God, and that the unbeliever's use of logic is therefore a kind of borrowing. The Transcendental Argument is the formal expression of this.

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Transcendental Argument

The Transcendental Argument for God (TAG), associated with Cornelius Van Til, Greg Bahnsen, and in its online form with presuppositionalists such as Darth Dawkins, Sye Ten Bruggencate, and Eric Hovind:

Presuppositionalism

The school was founded by Cornelius Van Til and developed by Greg Bahnsen. Its online practitioners include Sye Ten Bruggencate, Eric Hovind, and Darth Dawkins, whose standard opening is "how do you know anything without God?"

Greg Bahnsen

Greg Bahnsen (1948–1995), American Calvinist theologian, Cornelius Van Til's most capable student and the person who turned presuppositionalism into a debating method. His 1985 debate with the atheist Gordon Stein is the canonical performa…