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Critical Realism As Middle Path
- You can't prove God empirically, but you can rationally compare worldviews by consistency and explanatory power.
- Tim Keller calls this critical realism: weigh experience, internal coherence, and evidence.
Basic Human Needs Shape Worldview Choice
- Humans need meaning, identity, moral grounding, happiness, and especially hope to live fully.
- Keller argues belief systems must explain and satisfy these needs to be viable.
Pay Difference Reveals Power Of Hope
- Keller describes two identical factory workers paid vastly different salaries to show hope alters present experience.
- The woman expecting $2 million whistled while she worked, illustrating future hope shapes present perception.