ASA - August 2006: Re: [asa] Interesting review of "The Sel

From: Janice Matchett <janmatch@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu Aug 17 2006 - 08:51:47 EDT

At 08:08 AM 8/17/2006, McCarrick, Alan D CIV NSWCCD Philadelphia, 9260 wrote:

>....Dawkins deals with issues of morality and
>ethics a little bit in some recent work - and I
>am not familiar enough to comment extensively -
>but what I did read made me think that he seemed
>to wanted to have his cake and eat it
>too. Certainly Lewis makes the "moral argument"
>his central one in Mere Christianity.
>
>I do have an interesting observation - there was
>some talk a while back of Lewis' view of
>evolution. I didn't realize that he repeatedly
>referred to E in Mere Christianity. These are
>mostly just incidental references, but he
>clearly seemed to be accepting that evolution of
>life and man were to be assumed since science
>had demonstrated them sufficiently. I must go
>back and collect those references. ... ~ Alan McCarrick

@ I'll make it easy for you. ~ Janice

At 06:39 PM 6/27/2006, Austerberry, Charles wrote:

>...The following quotation comes from "C. S.
>Lewis on Creation and Evolution: The Acworth
>Letters, 1944-1960" by Gary B. Ferngren
>and Ronald L. Numbers (Perspectives on Science
>and Christian Faith, Volume 48, Number 1, March 1996, 28-33, available at
>http://www.asa3.org/asa/PSCF/1996/PSCF3-96Ferngren.html ): [snip] ~ Chuck

@ Thanks for the link to that article. I posted
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C. S. Lewis on Creation and Evolution: The Acworth Letters, 1944-1960
The American Scientific Affiliation Science in
Christian Perspective - PSCF 48 (March 1996):
28-33. ^ | March 1996 | Gary B. Ferngren and Ronald L. Numbers
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Re: [asa] Interesting review of "The Selfish Gene"