Under the assumption of philosophical materialism, many suppose that infants are epistemological “blank-slates,” receiving sensory impressions from the material world every time they open their eyes and cry or soil themselves or shiver when their naked bottoms are exposed during a diaper change. This derivative empiricist epistemology is largely taken for granted, even by Christians, sadly, without them knowing where it comes from. Considering how far the tentacles of materialism stretch in our society, however, it is easy to see why so many take the materialist view of infants for granted. However, the following three considerations demonstrate that the that the mind cannot ever be blank, even if we grant the assumption that the only physical/material things truly exist.
Firstly: If humans are purely physical beings for whom sensory experience is the foundation of all knowledge, and the entirety of human life consists in receiving and processing sensory input (i.e. having sensory experiences), then there is never…
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