Evidence · Case 05 · Relativism
Cultural Research Center, “American Worldview Inventory 2025”
One exhibit from the free evidence repository at apologetics.pro.
The 2025 survey run by George Barna at Arizona Christian University found that about two thirds of adults reject or doubt the existence of absolute moral truth, and that roughly 74% lean on feelings rather than facts to settle moral questions. This is an openly Christian research center, so read the interpretation critically. The raw finding, that most adults locate moral truth inside themselves, has held steady across years of the same survey.
Sources
- Cultural Research Center, Arizona Christian University, “American Worldview Inventory 2025.” (opens in a new tab)
Cultural Research Center, Arizona Christian University, “American Worldview Inventory 2025.”
Objections & responses
- Two Barna sources are one source twice. The Cultural Research Center is George Barna’s own project. And deciding morality by feelings isn’t the same as thinking feelings make things right.
Both points are fair. This is the same researcher and the same method as the previous exhibit, and it should be read as an update rather than independent confirmation. The 74 percent who decide morality by feelings also deserve a careful reading: a moral realist can consult feelings as evidence of moral facts, the way one consults perception as evidence of physical facts. Deciding by feeling is not the same as holding that feelings make things right. The line between the two is exactly what the interview study in the next exhibit tried to probe.