Rene Descartes famously said "Cogito ergo sum" ( I think, therefore I am). The mind was undoubtable. The universe was matter but man ruled it with his mind. It was mind over matter. What could be the matter with that?
Well the modernists said mind is nothing more than matter, that is "grey matter." The mind is merely a function of the brain. In fact, as Carl Sagan famously said, "The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be."
If this is the fact of the matter, then nothing really is the matter with anything. Mind, will, and emotions are the secretions of matter that's subject to the laws of the material universe. You can't hold someone accountable for following the laws of the universe, unless there's something else in the universe and beyond it. If we're reduced to grey matter, there's no black or white.
C. S. Lewis once said something like: you cannot posit evil in the world unless there's a Good beyond it. When a man calls a line crooked he must know what a straight line is. When we complain about this world we must be comparing it to something.
So if man is more than matter in motion, where do we get our transcendent standards?
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
(Genesis 1:24-27 ESV)
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