The fact is there are consequences to teaching that human beings are nothing but animals. My parents were both Christian, but it wasn't until my last year of college that I became convinced of Christianity. At first, I didn't feel that I could believe the Bible as God's Word. The turning point was reading Schaeffer's Escape from Reason. By the time I had finished college, I knew that the philosophers knew that philosophy didn't know the truth and couldn't know the truth.
Truth only comes through revelation.
It seems a foolish idea, after all, that we can speak but that the Creator cannot say anything. God was telling his people how their society was disintegrating. Here I was, an Indian reading Jewish history, but it made sense that God had promised that all the nations of the world would be blessed through the seed of Abraham. It was Jewish history written for me to bless my nation. I began to see that it was my only hope.