C. S. Lewis once observed
that:
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Consider this modification
of Lewis’ quote:
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“Our faith is not very
likely to be shaken by any book on Hinduism. But if, whenever we read an
elementary book on Geology, Botany, Politics, or Astronomy, we found that its
implications were Hindu, that would shake us. It is not the books written in
direct defense of materialism that make the modern man a materialist; it is
the materialistic assumptions in all the other books.”
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Our faith is not very likely
to be shaken by any book on Evolution. But if, whenever we read an elementary
book on Psychology, we found that its implications were evolutionary, that
would shake us. It is not the books written in direct defense of evolution
that make the modern man a evolutionist; it is the evolutionary assumptions
in all the other books.
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Monday, June 4, 2012
C. S. Lewis (revised)
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