
Does God Exist? (Alex Plato) | Ep. 389
Pints With Aquinas
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What Is Abductive Reason?
By abduction, do you mean arguing to the best explanation from the facts that you have? Yes. So if I wake up in the morning and I thought to myself, I heard rain last night and then when I'm pouring my coffee, I look out and I see puddles on the back grass,. I assume that the best explanation is that it's raining. Exactly. And this is also the reason of science and also theology. When we come to understanding the truth of Christianity, which is apologetics, right, we start with natural theology and we get to thetruth of Christianity.
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