I'm a huge fan of Presuppositional Apologetics and think you should be too. This method of defending the faith gets its big ol' name from its main tenet: Everyone presupposes God. Even the most ardent atheist acknowledges God in BOTH his living and reasoning.
Since we always presuppose God, when we try not to, we end up contradicting ourselves. Here is a quick example of a self-defeating statement:
'The brain secretes thought as the liver secretes bile'.
That bile was secreted by the brain of the French Enlightenment Materialist Pierre Cabanis [switch the 'b' and 'n' to cue the comedians].
If thinking is nothing more than an organ function, why in the world should I trust it to be an accurate measure of reality? Moreover why would I trust anybody else's thinking ... especially anybody who equated his brain and liver?
That statement is self-refuting, on the level of: I never tell the truth. It deserves to be discounted. Similarly, worldviews that deny God are ALWAYS self-contradicting. They cannot endure internal critique - they are disproved by their own standards.
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