Michael Peterson wrote about the views of C.S. Lewis on evolution and intelligent design. Here is the link to the article: http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2010/PSCF12-10Peterson.pdf
The following is a quote from Michael Peterson's article. He gives a summary of Lewis's argument from reason. What do you think of the argument?
The following is a quote from Michael Peterson's article. He gives a summary of Lewis's argument from reason. What do you think of the argument?
He also added some reasoning of his own, arguing in Miracles that, in order for human thought to be rational, it must be free: we must be able to
form beliefs by a logical process that is not completely determined by physical processes in the brain. However, a naturalistic worldview, observes Lewis, assumes that matter and its operations are the foundation of all phenomena, including what we call rational thought. It is at this very point that he says Naturalism is self-defeating: it undercuts rational thought by subsuming it under physical causation and therefore removes any basis for regarding human thought as rational, and for regarding the naturalist’s belief in Naturalism as rational. Lewis further argues that finite rationality is best explained by something outside of nature which must be more like a Mind than anything else. This is Lewis’s “argument from reason”—not technically a design-type argument but a closely related consideration pertaining to a Transcendent Intelligence.
form beliefs by a logical process that is not completely determined by physical processes in the brain. However, a naturalistic worldview, observes Lewis, assumes that matter and its operations are the foundation of all phenomena, including what we call rational thought. It is at this very point that he says Naturalism is self-defeating: it undercuts rational thought by subsuming it under physical causation and therefore removes any basis for regarding human thought as rational, and for regarding the naturalist’s belief in Naturalism as rational. Lewis further argues that finite rationality is best explained by something outside of nature which must be more like a Mind than anything else. This is Lewis’s “argument from reason”—not technically a design-type argument but a closely related consideration pertaining to a Transcendent Intelligence.
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