Revelation was not needed; reason and science could provide the answers. It was under the influence of Enlightenment thinking that the framers of America’s Declaration of Independence would state, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident.’ Truth, not revealed by God but self-evident to the reasoning mind, was the hallmark of the Enlightenment.3 Some have claimed in recent times that fundamental/evangelical thinking is nothing but a product of the Enlightenment. Mark Noll (professor at Wheaton College),
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