And the Hey, it's Andrew Clavin, with this week's interview with Douglas Wilson, the

pastor of Christ's Church in Moscow, Idaho, a prominent Calvinist theologian.

If you're not familiar with his work,

you want to take a look at him on YouTube.

He is absolutely terrific.

I talk about the culture a lot on the show and elsewhere,

and I don't think there's any more important

cultural issue or cultural mission than reorienting the mind of the West back toward

faith. I would actually go further than that and say if the Western

mind can't rediscover God with real faith there will be no Western culture to

speak of simply return to the bloody and oppressive paganism of old which is

where I think we're almost at today.

Having said all that, I'm someone who actually believes that the loss of medieval style faith

was inevitable, the rise of science, which was a deeply Christian phenomenon to begin

with that created the kind of illusion that the world didn't work the way the Bible seemed

to say it did, and I think it was only natural for scientists who study the way matter works that they and he who purposely set aside the idea of human perception and consciousness so they could look at matter as an objective phenomenon.

It was only natural that they would come to believe that matter was all there is,

and I think that that has had a huge effect on our society.

But as much as I think that was natural and inevitable the facts of change.

Science has changed.

The scientists to start out with were wrong.

It turns out that matter and consciousness, subjectivity and objectivity, the world and

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