If there's any glaring myth that has warmed its way into modern life and worldview thinking,

even penetrating some of the finest institutions of academia and of scientific investigation,

it is the grand myth of chance.

I believe that chance is the great myth of 20th century thought.

The great myth of the 20th century and the early 21st century, too.

This is the Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind,

and we're spending some time this week in R.C. Sproul's series, creation or chaos. The entire

series, along with the study guide, can be yours when you give a donation at Renewingermind.org

before this offer ends tomorrow.

You've likely heard it in the classroom or on the History Channel that billions of years

plus chance resulted in the world we see around us.

Although technically it's proposed as a theory, many hold it to be true.

But R.C. Sprawl would respond that no rational person

should believe in the power of chance. Here's Dr. Sprawl, on Chance the modern myth.

Sometimes I think that it's a Herkulean task that requires nothing less than the sort of

Damocles to cut off my legs to fit me into my procrustian bed.

What did I just say?

I just use those words and put them together in a sentence to indicate how we still borrow

images from ancient mythology that still inform our speech patterns today.

I noticed in the classical school where I'm involved, the children still study ancient mythology.

It's important because the themes of these myths reoccur in the literature of Western civilization down through the ages.

But from our vantage point, near the end of the 20th century, we have a tendency

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