Well, it's Wednesday today on Things Unseen, and I want to welcome you if this is your first visit to our weekday podcast.

This week we've been thinking about the question, what is man? Who are we really? And yesterday

we were reflecting a little on the sheer wonder of being created as male and female, man

and woman, two kinds of the same being, made to belong together, to glorify God together,

and to enjoy him together.

That last bit, I think, is what non-believers can never get.

When we come to know God, we enjoy Him.

And no wonder, because we come to realize how loving and kind and generous he has been to us.

You know, I've often thought that agnostics and atheists can't really live consistently

on the basis of their own agnostic or atheistic presuppositions.

They've got to beg, borrow or steal from a biblical world and life view, of course,

without admitting it, and often without realizing it.

Their presupposition is that we are just a mass of stuff, and all we are and do is determined

by the stuff that's built into us from our conception.

But you can't really live consistently with that world and life view, certainly with that view of yourself.

I'm reminded of a lecture given by one of my professors of psychology at university.

She was a well-known British humanist, and

she had written on the subject of humanism and its virtues. On one particular day, she

gave a lecture on biological determinism, arguing basically that everything we think, feel,

and do is essentially biologically determined.

The idea therefore that we have free will, she said, is a figment of our biologically determined

imagination. The effect on my class was electrifying. There was uproar afterwards, no free will. It was as though

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