Cornelius Van Til (1895-1987) was a Dutch-American scholar. He was born in Holland, (now the Kingdom of the Netherlands), but emigrated with his parents to the United States as a child. As a professor of apologetics, he argued that Christian faith was the only basis for rational thought, and that all human reasoning depended on adherence to God's revelation in Scripture. Cornelius Van Til emphasized that non-Christian worldviews were inherently false because they rejected the authority of the Bible. He sought to show that a Christian worldview was a necessary prerequisite for knowledge and logic, challenging the idea that human reason could be neutral or autonomous. His works had a great influence on Reformed theology and apologetics.