I started reading, A World of Difference, by Kenneth Richard Samples. He is not a presuppositionalist. He is like an evidentialist or a classical apologist. He has a criteria that he uses to evaluate different worldviews. This criteria is the following: 1. Coherence Test: Is a particular worldview logically consistent?, 2. Balance Test: Is the worldview properly balanced between simplicity and complexity, 3. Explanatory Scope and Power Test: How well does the worldview explain the facts and how wide is its explanation, 4. Correspondence Test: Does the worldview correspond with well-established, empirical facts, and does it correspond to a person's experiences in the world?, 5. Verification Test: Can the claims of the worldview be verified or falsified?, 6. Pragmatic Test: Does the worldview promote relevant, practical, and workable results, 7. Existential Test: Does the worldview address the internal needs of humanity?, 8. Cumulative Test: Is the worldview supported by multiple lines of converging evidence that together add increasing support for its truth-claims and extend the breadth of its explanatory power?, and 9. Competitive Competence Test: Can the worldview successfully compete in the marketplace of ideas?

This book reminds me of one of Ronald Nash's books. Ronald Nash had a similar criteria that he would use to evaluate different worldviews.

Samples also talks about logic and critical thinking. He gives a presentation of the Christian worldview and he critiques naturalism, postmodernism, pantheistic monism, and Islam.

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Curt Hayashida
member, Community Bible Church (Non-denominational)
Vallejo, CA