C. S. Lewis - The Funeral of a Great Myth 

I've considered the sciences for almost sixty years of my sixty four, and have only just recently found C.S. Lewis, aside from having read the Narnia books to my children, and unaware of his "apologetics". I am shocked at the excellence of his reason, his ability to transcend his time, and I have absolutely agreed with you, very much "all my life". I'm retired, machinist, mechanic, electronics tech, I began on computers in 71, entering high school, two years of Kobal and Fortran, two decades working digital electronics, avionics, for aircraft, in the Marines, have worked my whole life fixing and repairing things, a talent I was born with, along with dyslexia, no one has ever answered my question, "what has ever produced something as advanced as itself, without having an internal code to direct it?", better than Mr. Lewis, stating, "of course the ovum came from the egg of a fully developed woman, complete, and the sperm came from a man of the same sort, the unique code, the design, coming from the intermingling of the directions". Almost everyone in my field has lived and believed what you so aptly bluntly deny. I'm at best, "amateur scientist", but logic is "unreasonable", it is. I've only recently, within the year, run across C.S. Lewis beyond having read him to my now adult children, I had no idea he was such a brilliant man of faith. I am deeply humbled, and amazed.

Well said. Some scientists say openly now that our future is to become something like gods, if not actual gods. The reach of this myth has only increased and become more deeply rooted as an unquestionable, universal fact, but it is an absurdity.

So many incongruent \ incoherent concepts smuggled into this one. Up, down, decline, rise, the adding of "things" (how do we delineate them?). "Ability to adapt is already present in the genetic code itself"...which code? Adaptation of what to what? In evolution "adaptation" means the miscopying of this very code filtered through the environment.

@@ianinkster2261 You said "incoherent"... Lewis is of course talking against the commonly-held and widely-held use of 'evolution' to mean 'development' or improvement. Are you claiming you haven't noticed that, or are you referring to some side-element of the talk, or what are you saying? Dr. Feynman said 'the first rule is that you mustn't fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.' Jeremiah 33 says 'the heart of man is wickedly deceitful above all things, who can know it? The Lord knows the heart.' In the names of both of these folks, I ask you to be more careful. Times are hard enough.

@@ianinkster2261 You are mistaken. The misunderstanding may be willful or accidental on your part but I can only say that either you have not listened carefully or else that you have never known the myth of progress and that consequently this essay is not addressed to you.

L

Amen.

Those who believe them would cancel him!

Which ones? I believe that we tell Miss in 2021, but I wish to know which ones you are referring to specifically.

I think he would like the Norse god of war

Hit or miss I bet

I think about this when pondering the creation. What is time to a being that is eternal?

Jack

Clive

it amazes me that this channel doesn't have a lot more subscribers

I think you’ve got it backwards. But yeah.🤙🏻

John Lennox attended his last lecture so its safe to say most of Lennox's ideas come from Jack

@@travelsouthafrica5048 That is an illogical assumption.

@@rebanelson607 why ? most of what John says is almost exactly like Jack's remarks , the irony of a woman telling me I am illogical , funny if you think of it

He isn't reffering to the actual scientific theory of evolution but the idea of progressive evolution, he's not arguing for young earth creationism.

@@christophersnedeker2065 I’m not either. I’m arguing that progressive evolution is the lie people tell ourselves so we don’t have to worry about being responsible for our own actions.

@@christophersnedeker2065 He was a Christian. He's arguing for Christianity and against the naturalist use of evolution against Christianity.

Isn't he a king James onlyist? That's not wise. One of the people involved in the creation of the kjv admitted to changing the Bible.

@@christophersnedeker Oh? Which among the king's commission made that admission?

Zombies too may be evolved from zygote to ape stupids till brainies

He said the hypothesis of evolution as held by practicing biologists was not a myth.

Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.” And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

@@CSLewisessays We should indeed heap up the funeral pyre of the great myth. Humanity will only grow to anything like it's fullest extent, when we cast off the mind forged manacles it has made for itself. I have seen gods walking in my dreams and they are us.

@@cthoadmin7458 can men be trusted with godhood?

We are destroying the planet. WHERE will we be gods?

Weston? Is that you, Professor?