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Because apologists are often more careful in their philosophy, presuppositionalist metaphysics (being the only logical course of investigation in metaphysics) can then be used to infer a designer.  If first principles are obtained, then we have either obtained them by divine inspiration, or by our own investigation.  But to find them by our own investigation would require a functional method of empirical inquiry, which we cannot have without the first principles from which we might infer the appropriate method of empirical inquiry.  So, if we are to have a functional empirical method, we must possess the first principles a priori -- thus they have been given to us by God.  This is why [[creationism|creationists]] will often challenge [[darwinism|Darwinists]] on epistemological grounds -- the Darwinists have rigged the game by simply "defining away" the first principles which make knowledge possible while, for creationists, the methodology is based on the principles given by divine writ.

Because apologists are often more careful in their philosophy, presuppositionalist metaphysics (being the only logical course of investigation in metaphysics) can then be used to infer a designer.  If first principles are obtained, then we have either obtained them by divine inspiration, or by our own investigation.  But to find them by our own investigation would require a functional method of empirical inquiry, which we cannot have without the first principles from which we might infer the appropriate method of empirical inquiry.  So, if we are to have a functional empirical method, we must possess the first principles a priori -- thus they have been given to us by God.  This is why [[creationism|creationists]] will often challenge [[darwinism|Darwinists]] on epistemological grounds -- the Darwinists have rigged the game by simply "defining away" the first principles which make knowledge possible while, for creationists, the methodology is based on the principles given by divine writ.