Aristotle did not invent logic.

Anymore than Columbus invented America.

All he did was discover the rules that were already there that are built into the human mind.

He discovered and defined principles of reasoning that are built into your humanity by your creator.

By the God who is not the author of confusion, who is not irrational, nor absurd.

But the God who speaks to us is a God who speaks in a coherent, meaningful, intelligible way.

It can be difficult to be a Christian in today's society.

We seem to face opposition from so many different places, whether it's college campuses, the media, or secular academics.

But we need to remember that just because their arguments are loud, it doesn't mean that they're valid.

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us today on Renewing Your Mind.

This week, Dr. Sproul has been helping us better understand apologetics so that we can give an answer for the hope that is within us.

Sadly, we're living in a time where morality has been flipped on its head, where people call what is good, evil, and what is evil, good.

Perhaps as you've even engaged with colleagues or neighbors, you've begun to discover that it's difficult to have an intelligent conversation with people about basic things, let alone matters of eternity.

Well, as you hear from Dr. Sproul today on Renewing Your Mind, one of the reasons that it's hard to have a reasonable conversation with someone is because at least on the surface, many people have rejected reason altogether.

I began my teaching career at the college level in 1966, and that's getting to be a long time ago these days.

And over the years, over the decades, living through the decade of the 60s and the cultural revolution and then through the 70s and so on, I saw gradual changes in the students that came into the classroom coming out of high school into college.

And then as I began to teach seminary, I could also discern a difference in the assumptions that students had when they came out of the colleges and in the seminary.

A few years ago, Alan Bloom wrote a book that surprised everybody when it became a runaway bestseller entitled The Closing of the American Mind, in which Professor Bloom said in the very first page of this book that 95% of high school graduates who enter the freshman class of universities and colleges today come to college,

already assuming a philosophy of relativism. And he said, then what happens in the following four years is that those assumptions that they come into college without of high school are now set in concrete because he said the academic community in modern America has a mind that is closed to objective truth.

The truth is now perceived as being subjective as a matter of preference. Now that's bad news in one sense. And yet on the other hand, I say repeatedly that you might find 95% of people saying that they're relativist, but nobody is a relativist for more than 24 hours because you can't survive in this world really as a consistent relativist for more than 24 hours because you can't drive your car to an intersection

and see a truck coming and say it's all relative. And I subjectively choose to believe that there's no truck coming down the highway. And so I pull in front of that subjective illusion of mine and I am annihilated. And so people assume even when they deny it, a certain rational framework for the world in which they live.

In fact, that assumption of an objectively rational framework for reality is an assumption that is necessary for any science to take place.

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