C.S. Lewis: How Materialism / Atheism Commits Intellectual Suicide

In Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes (191) Nancy Pearcey shows how C.S. Lewis argued against the Atheists’ ability to defend the possibility of thinking.

If minds are wholly dependent on brains, and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of atoms, I cannot understand how the thoughts of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees . . . But if I can’t trust my own thinking, of course I can’t trust the arguments leading to Atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an Atheist, or anything else. C.S. Lewis