Does the Christian World View Answer Inductive Skeptics?
I have argued so far that inductive skepticism has been questioned in many different ways that are independent of Christianity. Now let us consider whether Christianity provides a justification of induction and answers the inductive skeptic. One argument suggests that humans could never be assured of the uniformity of nature on the Christian worldview. According to Bahnsen and other Christian apologists, it is possible that God has morally sufficient reasons for allowing evil in the world although we do not know what these are. For example, God could have a morally sufficient reason for allowing the Lisbon earthquake that killed thousands of innocent people although we don’t know what it was. Now suppose certain uniformities of nature will fail to hold in the future. Suppose after the year 1998 all emeralds will be blue and all rubies will be green. If God could have a morally sufficient reason for the Lisbon earthquake, surely He could have a sufficient reason for causing such a depar
