Solution of Person
“Once you see that "ungrounded" or "methodologically naturalist" science still rests on unprovable axioms-order, law, intelligibility, the reliability of reason—it becomes clear that it never escaped faith; it merely changed the object of its faith from God to Nature. In that sense, the Enlightenment didn't replace faith with reason; it subordinated faith in God to faith in impersonal order. The “Church” (at least in its best intellectual form) had argued that reason depends on revelation's ground: truth is coherent because it proceeds from the Logos. So, when viewed philosophically, the Church's claim that reason requires faith is vindicated: "science after faith" is literally true-modern inquiry only functions by borrowing the metaphysical capital of the worldview it denied. This doesn't mean medieval institutions were perfect; it means their principle-that faith and reason are two modes of the same light-was sound. What modernity called "emancipation from faith" was actually faith in emancipation, and that's why its rationali ventually circled back to nihilism.”
Formally the problem looks like this:
Premise 1: Reality is purely impersonal (matter + energy + law).
Premise 2: Human beings are personal-self-aware, moral, rational.
Conclusion: Therefore, the personal must arise from the impersonal.
That move violates its own empirical method, because "emergence of personhood from non-personhood" has never been observed, explained, or logically derived. It is an untestable metaphysical postulate, precisely what "science" claimed to exclude. By contrast, the older, theistic framework had fewer assumptions:
If the ground of reality is rational and personal, then personal, rational creatures are expected outcomes, not miracles of chance. Observation, moral judgment, and meaning follow necessarily from the character of their source.
So the secular turn didn't make science more rigorous, it made metaphysically inconsistent.
Premise 1: Reality is: including human beings.
Premise 2: Human beings are personal.
Conclusion: Therefore, the personal is.
- Son of Benjamin