[CarolinaGuitarman]

There's even better stuff:

"...for we have good reason to believe that animals existed long before men...For long centuries God perfected the animal form which was to become the vehicle of humanity and the image of Himself...[Eventually,] God caused a new kind of consciousness to descend upon this organism" (PP,pp. 137,77).

"...but he (man) remains still a primate and an animal" (RP, pp. 115, 129);

"If...you mean simply that man is physically descended from animals, I have no objection" (PP, p. 72)

Seems that C.S. Lewis guy didn't get the creationist memo.

[js1138]

Sounds to me like C.S. Lewis accepted biology as an inescapable fact, pretty much as the Pope does.

These debate could be more interesting if we could get past the YEC screamers.