“One Ring to Rule Them All”
Refuting Philosophical Materialism
by Nancy Pearcey
In high school, Dylan was a natural leader. Everyone expected him to succeed. But when he went to college, his Christian convictions were assailed by doubts in virtually every class. In his science classes, Darwinian naturalism was an unquestioned assumption. In English class, a postmodern attitude treated all truth claims as disguised power plays. In psychology, the prevailing theories – from Freud’s psychoanalysis to Skinner’s behaviorism – treated Christianity as a symptom of mental pathology.