Some people like to debate issues ranging form evolution to global warming to socialism.  I want to understand the depth of their thinking, so I ask them to tell me the basis of their thoughts: “How do you know this?”  “What makes you think so?”  “What is your basis for that?”  We always end up with a hand full of hot air:  “This is what I prefer to believe.”  “This is what so-and-so says.”  “My basis is such-and-such, which is a valid assumption.”  “People who disagree with me are making the wrong assumptions.”  “I guess I just made it up.”  The list of "foundational thoughts" could go on, but, as you can see, the foundation for these thoughts is a pile of sand.  There is not solid footing.  Yet these people are so sure of themselves.  The concept of rationalism says that rationalism is the most valid form of reasoning, superior even to observation and experience.  That is to say that “I just made it up, and every other thought is not valid because I made up this story.”  Is this really the best form of reasoning?  Is this even sane?

So here we are with the people on the left side of the culture war saying that it makes perfect sense to have reasoning based on, “I just made it up.”  Then, these same people use all types of methods to hide their precarious reasoning and claim to be dealing with data and facts and research when they are really dealing with, “I just made it up.”  To top it all off, these same people assert that it is silly for the people on the right to put any stock the Bible, a book which has never been proved in error.