Tapping into the Transcendent: How Human Reason Undercuts Naturalism

In our technological age, science as an enterprise enjoys a high level of cultural influence. To be a rational and educated person is to accept a thoroughly “scientific” worldview—which typically means rejecting the idea of a human soul. However, it turns out that the very foundations of science cannot survive a materialist view of human persons. Genuine rationality, and hence all scientific activity, have enormous implications for the existence of the soul.