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To: SmartCitizen
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Materialism and empiricism (2 cornerstones of neodarwinism) have been refuted many times over. Here is a refutation from C.S. Lewis:

"...no account of the universe can be true unless that account leaves it possible for our thinking to be a real insight. A theory which eplained evertything else in the whole universe but which made it impossible to believe that our thinking was valid wold be utterly out of court. For that theory wold itself have been reached by thinking, and if thinking is not valid, that theory would, of course, be itself demolished. It would have proved that no argument was sound..."



A more accurate quote from C.S. Lewis' Miracles (from http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/materialism.html) would be (with the portion you omitted in red and typos left as in the original):

"...no account of the universe can be true unless that account leaves it possible for our thinking to be a real insight. A theory which explained everything else in the whole univere but which made it impossible to believe that our thinging was valid would be utterly out of court. For that theory would itself have been reached by thinking, and if thinking is not valid, that theory would, of course, be itself demolished. It would have proved that no argument was sound -- a proof that there are no such things as proofs -- which is nonsense."


63 posted on 10/01/2005 3:11:38 PM PDT by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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To: Coyoteman

The Grand Master is pleased.


83 posted on 10/01/2005 3:51:58 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Disclaimer -- this information may be legally false in Kansas.)
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To: Coyoteman
-- a proof that there are no such things as proofs -- which is nonsense."

And precisely how does that addition change the fact that Lewis refutes materialism? It doesn't. Materialism is fully refuted. If you like, I can post more proofs. I have a big library on philosophy. Materialism is indefnsible.

85 posted on 10/01/2005 3:57:28 PM PDT by SmartCitizen
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