C.S. Lewis and Evolution

"C.S. Lewis and Evolution" is the second of three short documentaries inspired by the book The Magician's Twin: C.S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society. It examines the evolution of Lewis's views on orthodox Darwinian theory from his time as a college undergraduate to his death in 1963.

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[SME377]

"It is to reject all dogmas, but does so undogmatically." How dogmatic of you.

[Terncote]

"So yes, design is assumed as the working hypothesis guiding their investigations."

Equivocation fallacy. Design in the sense of there being a plan before manifestation is certainly NOT assumed by biologists.

Living things are never "haphazard collections" or they would not be alive to begin with.

If a configuration is adaptive it survives. That is how information about the environment is imported into a species, not by top down design.

[piusvapor]

C'mon the skeptic is not that stupid, is he/she ???

[vickrogue]

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[gliptic1]

Thank you!

[oneyedjohn]

So skepticism is the attempt to the world as it is with out any preconceived notion on how to world works and "just as it is". This I have no problem with and encourage as much as possible. but the problem I have is that the moment any thought can be put in to a "ism" by the very nature that it can be categorized means that it has become less "as it is" but "as I/we see it" again not bad but we are not careful can go to "as I/we see it" to "how it is", thus with out warning becoming a dogma.

[StickInMudd]

Skepticism, in it's purest form, is to be without any Dogma. It is to reject all dogmas, but does so undogmatically. Dogmas are basically systems of belief about something (usually reality). So the skeptic eschews beliefs, and takes life 'as it is' (aka self-evidently).

A dogmatist eating a lemon will state 'the nature of the lemon is sour'. The skeptic will see this as a belief because we cannot really know the nature of the lemon. Our senses could decieve us. However,it is self evidently sour.

[habitualstudios]

Well said indeed! Brilliant!

[oneyedjohn]

I have always assumed that skepticism meanness that one supped judgment until all available facts are available. thus putting clams of reality as "true, false or not proven." this includes empirical evidence, but as men point of views such as folk ways and "gut" feelings must also be examined. for each represents a perceived reality and must be examined to see if they are true, false or not proven and why they are perceived as such.

[StickInMudd]

Just wondering, do you know what skepticism is?

Also, what is "modern" skepticism? I don't know what that is.

Have you read "Outlines of Pyrrhonism" by Sextus Empiricus? That's the founding book of skepticism. I say if you haven't read that book, then you don't know what skepticism is. There's no escaping going back to the original manuscript.

You may be using the word skepticism in it's colluquial use, which is fine, but try not to murk it up with the actual philosophy of skepticism.