Generally, logic is perceived as the ability to reason correctly. This is a trap because ‘correctness’ is a social and historical category.

In 1650 Bishop Ussher dated the creation from the genealogy given in the Bible at 4004 B.C.; for a long time (even for some people today) this was accepted as "gospel truth." However, if you accept a miracle such as this, what's wrong with creation 5 minutes ago? It would be scarcely more difficult for the Creator to create all of us sitting here, with our memories of events that never really happened, with our worn shoes that were never really new, with spots of soup that were never really spilled on our ties, and so on. Such a beginning is logically possible, but extremely hard to believe!

T.L. Page: Stars and Galaxies, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1962.

The rules of logical thinking are at best only as good as the facts they handle.