Emmanuel Kant was one of the greatest skeptics in history, and yet even he acknowledged there is purpose in the universe.

Kant himself said he cannot get past two things. The starry skies above and the moral law within.

Because Kant was not just a philosopher, Kant was also a scientist, and he was overwhelmed

by the manifest evidence of the presence of design in the world of nature.

Even secular philosophers come to the conclusion that there must be something bigger and smarter than us.

Today, on renewing your mind, R.C. Sprawl will begin a short Saturday series

from his course on classical apologetics, Defending Your Faith.

With a new series comes a new resource offer, and we are making

this complete series, plus two field guides, dealing with false teaching and the confusion

surrounding gender and sexuality available to you when you give a donation of any amount

at renewingyourmind.org. I'll tell you more about these resources at the end of

today's episode. While creation tells us less about God than the Bible does, it still tells us

enough to point skeptics to the creator. After a brief recap of his prior lessons, here's

R.C. Sprold to explain.

In recent sessions, we've been looking for a sufficient reason to account for reality as we encounter it.

And we looked at the four possibilities of an illusion or that which comes into being through

self-creation or that which is self-existent or that which is created ultimately from

something that is self-existent.

And we endeavored to show that in the last two options, both of those include a self-existent eternal something. And in our last

session, we looked at the question of whether that self-existent eternal something was transcendent.

And I try to point out to you that when philosophers and theologians speak of transcendence,

we're talking about that which is a higher

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