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Description: Ligon Duncan suggests that four important questions about truth, beauty, goodness, and meaning lack satisfactory answers from an atheistic worldview.

Ligon Duncan suggests that four important questions lack satisfactory answers from an atheistic worldview.

I have never heard a compelling case by an atheist thinker about these questions:

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What is true?
What is good?
What is beautiful?
Is there ultimate meaning?

I’ve seen those who follow pagan non-Christian religions appeal to other kinds of theism to give answer to those things. And as a Christian, I have a theistic answer to that because I believe that there is objective truth, objective morality, objective beauty, and real meaning in this world.

But from an atheist framework, I have never seen a convincing or compelling case for the true, the good, the beautiful, or for real meaning in life. And I think that really ought to bother atheists.

Ligon Duncan (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is chancellor and CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary, president of RTS Jackson, and the John E. Richards professor of systematic and historical theology. He is a board and council member of The Gospel Coalition. His new RTS course on the theology of the Westminster Standards is now available via RTS Global, the online program of RTS. He and his wife, Anne, have two adult children.