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TranscriptLast week, I shared an experience I had while teaching Sunday school recently and speaking on world views. What should each world view think if they're consistent about certain issues? Speaking about atheism, one of the students spoke up and said, “My friends that are atheists at school, they don’t believe all of this. They haven't even thought about it.” What this girl hit on is very key. Sometimes in conversations, we’re going to need to think for the other person, not in derogatory way but in a way to show them where their view leads.Today, I want to talk about two things briefly. The first would be the problem of inconsistency. The second would be some areas where, sometimes, people are inconsistent and we need to help them think through issues. Dr. James White has said that inconsistency is the sign of a failed argument. If you make an argument, a well-laid out train of thought that is, and all the pieces don’t fit together, well, that’s a failed argument. It should not be compelling. In the same way, I think we can adapt that principle and say that, “Inconsistency, in a world view, is the sign of a world view in trouble.”If you think about a world view like a puzzle, where you have all these different positions you hold on certain issues as puzzle pieces and the whole puzzle completed is the world view, well then, a world view in trouble might be when someone has most of their puzzle together but some pieces that don’t fit anywhere. They’ve got some holes and no pieces to fill them with. What's worst is the pieces that don’t fit. When they're trying to use the pieces from someone else’s puzzle, this is a world view in trouble. This happens all of the time.I want to say right up front that all of us hold incorrect positions on something. None of us, most likely and statistically, know all truthful things. We hold some incorrect positions. Our goal should always be to be refining, always reforming, always improving, always finding these incorrect beliefs we hold and exchanging them for new correct beliefs. This doesn’t mean that the only ideal that we search for in life is change. The change is the byproduct, hopefully, of an ever-increasingly accurate world view and the pursuit of that.What are some of these pieces people hold that don’t really fit together? Here's one. I'm just going to use atheism as an example. Sometimes, atheists, like maybe the ones this girl was talking about at her school, just simply say God doesn’t exist. They’ve heard someone speak on TV or on some PBS special and the person presented what, to them, was a compelling case that God does not exist, and by extension, there is nothing supernatural. They go to school the next day and they say, “I'm an atheist.”What might that person do if someone steals their iPad or breaks their phone or cheats off of them and yet says that, in fact, they plagiarized their paper? This newly formed atheist is going to be very upset. They're going to feel wronged. They're going to think that something actually objectively wrong happened. Does morality actually fit in an atheistic world view? No. A consistent atheist, and this is key, would have to say that objective morality, morality that’s true for everyone like we’ve talked about recently, does not exist. Moral law is not something you c…