Sinclair Ferguson

This is what it's got to do.

It helped them to think clearly.

It helped them to think and ask the right questions, to probe reality and to listen to the answers that reality gave.

And so I'm convinced, and I think it's not only Christians that have wondered about this, that that tool that taught young Christians how to think clearly

was also what we would nowadays call a transferable skill.

And so putting it into the lenses of young people wonderfully equipped them to live in the world that God had created, to listen to what the world said as young scientists or engineers, and then to formulate what they could do with this world.

according to the principles of the world itself.

I sometimes think, I wonder if we would have had AI and such things earlier if Adam and Eve had not sinned.

Would they have been able to listen to the world better and to use, you know, we have created nothing.

I mean, we speak about creating things like that.

We create nothing.

We are engineers, always engineers.

using what God has embedded in the world that he's made.

And I think of some stories I know from just my own experience in life of what a remarkable instrument it's been in the lives of people who have, even if they've not memorized the Shorter Catechism, they've learned how to think theologically and logically by using the Shorter Catechism.

Yeah, in my lifetime, so I would say at home in the United Kingdom, evangelical Christians suffered at the hands of secular psychologists who taught two things.

One, if children learn things by rote, that's not a good way to instruct them.

And B, to teach them a system of theology is a very bad thing.

And yet having said that, that's what was happening in the secular world.

The way people learn baseball statistics, cricket statistics, they may not notice it, but they learn these things by rote.

The way people learn computer languages.