Thank you, Neil. We are very excited to be able to welcome Dr. James Anderson to be with us here tonight. Before I say any more about him, let me give just a word of explanation as to why the lectures are called the Warfield Lectures. You have a bit on the back of your program for the night. I won't repeat that. I will emphasize this. Warfield is one of the giants of American theologians. He is probably best associated with the doctrine of inerrancy of the Bible, and he was one of its greatest defenders at a time when that doctrine was under critical attack, not only in the world, but within the church. And his articles to this day represent a buttress against the criticisms that have been raised. And we want to be associated with the doctrine of inerrancy as a seminary, that the foundation of all that we teach is indeed the Holy Scriptures, understood to be the very Word of God, and therefore, without error, in all that they teach. Another reason is that we happen to be gathered in a hall where B.B. Warfield once spoke. And next year will be the 100th anniversary of that event. Actually, any event that has Warfield speaking elsewhere is a matter of note because Warfield almost never traveled out of Princeton. In the first year of his marriage, he and his wife were to take a voyage overseas. They were caught in some terrible storm. Something happened. Biographies are not all consistent on this as to whether the injury was physical, psychological, or both, but it left his wife very disabled. and in need of constant care and therefore B.B. never left her side beyond walking down the road to teach his class and then to come back. But she passed in the year 1915. And so his caregiving days came to an end, and my guess is probably there had been many requests made to him before that time, but he came here then in 1917 to deliver lectures that are now published in the book called Counterfeit miracles. At that time, the lectureship was named for a Dr. Thomas Smythe, and these were the Smythe lectures back then. But this was the hall. This was first built as Smith Chapel. We now have another Smith Chapel over on Washington Street, but this was first built as a Sunday school building, an auditorium for the church, and It was named for Dr. Samuel Macon Smith. So this is where the old Columbia Theological Seminary used to have many of its public lectures open to the city. And so we're seeking to revive that particular tradition. I am excited to introduce James Anderson to you, particularly for the topic that he is addressing tonight. for this reason. One, he, like myself, is a philosopher, and so I have some respect for the perspective that he brings. But this happens to be a topic where the church is going to need the coming together of people in many disciplines. When the Bible tells us that God made human beings in his own image, we are told that we were made male and female. And do you know what? The Bible assumed that people knew what that meant at the time. There isn't a long explanation given to how you would go about identifying people as male and female. And for millennia, that issue was not very difficult for people. It has suddenly become very difficult. in our culture. When I was in school, it just didn't, you know, take much to get yourself under attack if you were asserting that human beings were anything other than material bodies. The claim that we had souls was not something that could be taken for granted. You had to argue for that. It was assumed that about the only way to know anything was to have empirical proof for it through your senses. So you had to argue that there was a soul. But today, even in medical faculties across our land, the idea that a person could be a male anatomically in his body, but female in his gender or in her gender identity, that is now being set before us as something that ought to be accepted on face value without any proof at all. That a person's own testimony is the only proof that could be given, and it is the proof that is sufficient for it. So, I'm particularly glad to have somebody who is, like Dr. Anderson, particularly called to the engagement of the secular world. His main field is apologetics. He gives himself in editing a series of books now on 10 big critical questions, and he has written a volume on Why Should I Believe Christianity? He's got a book on worldviews, both of which are written at a very popular level. You don't have to be a technical philosopher to understand his writings. He's very clear. I think you'll find that. When he speaks, you'll know he's not from around here. He's got one of those accents that by itself is worth another $10,000 a year, just by itself. But he's from all over. Found out he was actually born in Holland, but of English parents. He spent a great deal of his educational life at Edinburgh. He's actually Dr. Dr. Anderson because he did his PhD first in computer simulation. Then later took up the study of theology, did a master's degree and then a doctorate degree in philosophical theology. So he comes with a great deal of educational background, but more than anything else, he comes with a great love for the Lord and a commitment to the Bible as the very word of God. B.B. Warfield would be glad to have him standing here, and we are too. Dr. Anderson, we'll turn it over to you.