Monday, June 4, 2012

C. S. Lewis (revised)


C. S. Lewis once observed that:
Consider this modification of Lewis’ quote:

“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.” 
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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