ABSTRACT
Rasmussen marks out a pathway of reason that begins with the New Atheist value of honest, open truth seeking. Rasmussen argues that truth seeking in certain domains leads one to expect to find explanations for contingent events, which bolsters a key premise in the argument for the existence of a foundational explanation of contingent reality. Rasmussen then extends this “contingency” argument by addressing the charge that there is no reason to think the foundation of things would have theistic attributes. Rasmussen shows how the same principle of explanation that points to a foundation also provides some evidence for a supreme foundation.
