Atheists, I'm sure you've all heard the "atheism can't account for the laws of logic argument...?

Wow, what a load of hooey! The rules of logic (and of math as well) are natural consequences of the definition of “set”. For instance, a syllogism can be broken down to “All of set X are in set Y”, “a is in set X”, “therefore a is in set Y”.

Likewise “If P then Q. P therefore Q” means that all items in set P are also in set Q, so any individual item in set P must be in set Q.

“Two things equal to a third thing are equal to each other” is true because the two things must both consist of two sets, and by the definition of set, if they are both equal to a third set then none of the three sets can have items the others don’t.

“1 + 1 = 2” means that a set combining two sets, each with one thing, includes all the things in those sets and nothing else, and therefore has 2 things. It turns out not to be true when we try to add things like two drops of water, because the water drops combine into a single drop. They lose the cohesiveness of their original sets – something set theory assumes does not happen.

Empirical record works for me. If laws of logic worked on every single issue so far, the chance they will stop working in the future is negligible at this point.

I don't concern myself with prodding the axioms as long as it works.

C.S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason

by Victor Reppert

-- has somewhat the same thing. I find it compelling.

Logic existed long before Christianity.

yes well lets hear your response, see if it holds up ok