C. S. Lewis on Science Abuse: Join Eric Metaxas and John West for Socrates in the City, Feb. 8 in Seattle

Apologetics, C. S. Lewis Readers’ Encyclopedia, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Culture & Ethics, David Berlinski, Eric Metaxas, Events, Faith & Science, John Lennox, John West, Politics, Public Life in the Shadowlands, Rainier Club, scientism, Socrates in the City, Stephen C. Meyer, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Magician’s Twin
Lewis was a critic of the growing power of scientism, the effort to apply science to areas outside its bounds. His writing on this couldn't be timelier. Source
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Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

1984, Ahmed Shaheed, antiracists, Bertrand Russell, Big Brother, C.S. Lewis, causation, clinical psychology, Darwinian evolution, Enlightenment, Evolution, free speech, free will, George Orwell, J.P. Moreland, Keith Stanovich, law enforcement, mental fertility, mental immunity, mental integrity, mental privacy, Miracles (book), neuropsychology, Neuroscience & Mind, Nicholas Caputo, North Korea, nudging, Simon McCarthy-Jones, The Conversation, The Design Inference, theists, thought police, thoughtspeech, Timothy Stratton, Trinity College Dublin, United Nations, William Dembski, William Provine, Winston Ewert, Woodrow Wilson
An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. Source
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Against the Tide: John Lennox and Stephen Meyer

academia, Against the Tide, Atheism, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Christianity, Culture & Ethics, Faith & Science, ID The Future, John Lennox, materialism, mathematicians, naturalism, New Atheism, Northern Ireland, Oxford University, Peter Atkins, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, scientific atheism, Stephen Meyer
Can one person push back against the strong currents of atheism, materialism, and naturalism so evident in academia and the public square today? Source
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C. S. Lewis’s Prophetic Legacy on Scientism

C.S. Lewis, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Faith & Science, freedom, government, humans, ID The Future, intolerance, John West, lockdowns, moral relativism, natural world, physical science, planned society, Podcast, privacy, scientific progress, scientism, scientists, technocracy, Willing Slaves of the Welfare State
As an illustration, John West discusses the COVID pandemic and how that recent public health crisis revealed much of what Lewis warns against. Source
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Nature Reflects an Intelligent Design — But Also a Moral One

beauty, biochemical systems, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Complexity, David Klinghoffer, Divine Hiddenness argument, divine image, evil, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, food, free choice, George Ellis, Good, humans, information, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, laws of nature, life after death, lifespan, living cell, Nancey Murphy, nuclear weapons, physics, physiological systems, Templeton Prize, universe
Human beings must have freedom of choice if our actions are to have any meaning beyond the impersonal and predictable outcomes governed by the laws of physics. Source
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Why Mathematics and Literature Point to Intelligent Design

algebra, Arthur Conan Doyle, Blood Meridian, Books, C.S. Lewis, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Cormac McCarthy, Culture & Ethics, Fiction, fractal structure, geometry, Herman Melville, Intelligent Design, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Joyce, Jurassic Park, Leo Tolstoy, literature, mathematicians, mathematics, Meaning, Michael Crichton, Moby-Dick, New York Times, Once Upon a Prime, order, Sarah Hart, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Stella Maris, The Passenger, The Road
In an era where un-design is celebrated, a mathematician shows that structure and order are inherent in both literature and the universe. Source
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Slaying Leviathan Conference: John West on C. S. Lewis, Scientocracy, and More

C. R. Wiley, C.S. Lewis, Central Connecticut State University, Christianity, Culture, Darwin Day in America, Discovery Institute, Evangelical Reformed Church, faith, Faith & Science, Glenn S. Sunshine, history, Human Zoos, John West, Politics, Privileged Species, Revolutionary, Rich Hamlin, scientocracy, Tacoma, The Magician’s Twin, The Politics of Revelation and Reason, Theology Pugcast, Walt Disney and Live Action
On Saturday in Tacoma, he will also discuss what we can learn about the relationship between faith and politics from American history in the 1800s. Source
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