After responding to a pair of attacks by a Reformed critic on Veriphysics and the Triveritas and his claim that the philosophy was somehow dependent upon his theology, I decided to put Reformed epistemology to the Triveritan test.
The critic claimed that “when you run Reformed Epistemology through the Triveritas, it doesn’t just survive. It owns the machine.”
He did not actually perform the scoring. Let us therefore do what he did not.
We will score presuppositional Reformed epistemology as the critic presented it: the system grounded in Van Til’s transcendental argument for God, the Westminster Standards, exhaustive divine determinism, and the claim that the Triune God is the necessary precondition for all intelligibility.
You can read the results there. Let’s just say that there is a very good reason that we have different words for “philosopher” and “theologian” and that theology is not epistemology.
Most people are very sloppy and undisciplined thinkers. This includes theologians. One reason why I very seldom discuss theology or religious dogma here is that so much of it is obviously flawed, when not demonstrably false. Ironically, this doesn’t mean that there is any problem with the core religious claims, which is a different mistake that is made by skeptical midwits, only that it is very common for the faithful to erect buildings of straw on top of stone foundations.