[Matchett-PI]

What were Galileo's scientific and biblical conflicts with the Church?

"..In many ways, the historic controversy of creation vs. evolution has been similar to Galileo's conflict, only with a reversal of roles..."

Quote: "Conflicts between Science and the Bible arise from either a lack of scientific knowledge or a defective understanding of the Bible." ~ Moses Maimonides

[tallhappy]

Great quote by Maimondes.

On these particular threads it is interesting those ostensibly pro-science (eg the religious evolutionite cult) have both lack of science and Biblical knowledge yet are arrogant and hubristic in their ignorance.

[JamesP81]

What inclines me now to think that you may be right in regarding it as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.

Bears repeating.

[thackney]

bump

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Lewis was an evolutionist. Lewis was also a human creature, and fallible.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

crevolist ping (about narnia's writer).

[silverleaf]

CS Lewis ping

[ClearCase_guy]

Lewis closed with a cordial invitation "to spend a night with me next term," ...

Oh, oh. I think we know where this will go ...

;)

[stuartcr]

I don't think it really matters who, or how learned one is, when discussing matters which are unknown, and probably will be forever.

[Taliesan]

Sounds to me like Lewis focused on what he knew the most about and politely evaded the man's attempts to draw him into an argument he wasn't trained for -- in the sort of display of good sense we've come to expect from Lewis.

[SE Mom]

CS Lewis bookmark

[Brit1]

Were is the 'Perception of reality' or the 'Conception of existence'

[OneWingedShark]

Quote: "Conflicts between Science and the Bible arise from either a lack of scientific knowledge or a defective understanding of the Bible." ~ Moses Maimonides

Good quote! :)

[70times7]

for later reading

[irish guard]

Sadly, Lewis died the same day as JFK and his death was overshadowed by Kennedy's assasination. Lewis's book, "A Grief Observed" helped me think through the events leading up to my father's death.

[far sider]

The Genesis Flood wasn't even published until 1960. That book marked the beginning of the modern creationist movement. The fact that he may have accepted a lot of evolutionary ideas doesn't surprise me. After all he was an atheist for most of his life.

[apackof2]

ping

[curiosity]

Faith and science ping.

[JCEccles]

Evolution was a creed so pervasive and so deeply held that even to appear to question it was to invite attack. For example, in a vitriolic article the Marxist geneticist J.B.S. Haldane accused Lewis of getting his science wrong and of traducing scientists in his works of science fiction.12 It is probably because evolution formed the basis of theories of philosophical naturalism like Haldane's, which had become the dominant secular world view, that Lewis agreed with Acworth in regarding it "as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives."

Exactly.

Ann Coulter made the same general observation and was excoriated by the FReeper Darwinist priesthood.

[PGalt]

We were all created. Many devolve.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Bump for later.