materialism should be understood to include naturalism. Scientism (hard scientism, to be precise) is the view that science has a monopoly on the rational pursuit of knowledge—that we can only know to be true what science has demonstrated, and anything science cannot methodically examine cannot be known to exist.9 For example, thanks to the science of chemistry, we know that water is composed of two hydrogen atoms bonded to an oxygen atom. However, a transcendent Creator responsible for the laws of