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I'd call that "mocking" as serious as anything YHAOS can copy and paste from previous Free Republic threads.

Evidently, "mocking" must be in the eye of the beholder. For I don't see anything in what C. S. Lewis wrote here that "mocks" science. I think he's seeing things from a much bigger "picture" than you are.

I'm a Christian. I don't "mock" science. Rather I think science is one of the most glorious human activities in the world. I don't even "mock" Darwinism. To critique it for its shortcomings is not to "mock" it; it is to take it seriously.

FWIW.

betty boop: "Evidently, "mocking" must be in the eye of the beholder.
For I don't see anything in what C. S. Lewis wrote here that "mocks" science.
I think he's seeing things from a much bigger "picture" than you are. "

Not that I am, FRiend.
My comment refers back to post #134 where YHAOS copies & pastes a listing of 27 quotes from FReepers allegedly "mocking" Christians, with YHAOS special emphasis on the words "demonic possession".
I merely pointed out that if those quotes were seriously "mocking" Christians, then the quote about CS Lewis you refer to even more seriously mocks science.

Indeed, let's look at that quote again:

"After much thought, C.S. Lewis concluded that evolution is the central, most radical lie at the center of a vast network of lies within which modern Westerners are entangled..."

The quote goes on to equate these "lies" with the "fiendish aim" of "another spirit" for which "compromising priests" are serving its "diabolical purposes".

I'd call that a mocking of science far greater than any mild chiding of certain Christian beliefs by posters on Free Republic.

betty boop: "I'm a Christian. I don't "mock" science.
Rather I think science is one of the most glorious human activities in the world.
I don't even "mock" Darwinism.
To critique it for its shortcomings is not to "mock" it; it is to take it seriously."

So, does that mean you disavow the use of CS Lewis' words in the article here?
If so, then I commend you, FRiend.