Just found out that C.S. Lewis believed in Evolution

[Quixote1818]

Yes, even C.S. Lewis the Christian apologist knew the deepest layers in the Grand Canyon were billions of years old. I wonder if the fundies are going to protest 'The Chronicles of Narnia' now?

http://www.answersincreation.org/lewis.htm

[hyphenate]

1. Well, C.S. Lewis

was a reasonable man. Do you honestly think that fundies even understand what "reason" is? They're too fucked up mentally to even grasp basic physics or chemistry, not to mention archaeology or anthropology.

Most people are reasonable. It's just those idiots on the far religious right who are useless as a whore's teat.

[WindRavenX]

2. LOL

It's just those idiots on the far religious right who are useless as a whore's teat

:rofl:

[Quixote1818]

4. After watching the movie "Shadowlands" I came to really admire C.S. Lewis

He seemed like a wonderful person with a big heart. Even if he didn't believe in Evolution I would still admire him.

[kestrel91316]

10. C. S. Lewis was apparently (gasp) an intellectual. The fundies,

now that this news is coming forth, will no doubt purge his books from their stores and shelves, and call for his posthumous burning at the stake.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Big shock there...

Lewis was a mainstream Anglican of the mid-20th Century, not a fundamentalist, despite the efforts of the latter to claim him as one of their own. (Personally, I think that the latter phenomenon is due to his children's books being right about at their maturity level. ;-) )

[Lipton64]

5. I don't think it's really an issue one way or the other regarding the evolution debate.....

C.S. Lewis wasn't even a scientist so not demeaning his works or him since I am a big fan of both, it doesn't really matter because he wouldn't have been qualified to speak on the topic any how due to his choice in career. But it does make the man more interesting personally in my eyes. And who knows, some fundy wackos might start burning the Narnia series now. I've heard about certain churches where they buy HUNDREDS of Harry Potter books and then have a public book burning of the stack. Of course they're so fucking stupid because they don't realize that all they're doing is giving J.K. Rowling MORE MONEY by doing their wacked out little Naziesque bonfire.

They also burn those little Pokemon and YugiOh! cards. It's so funny how and what they construe to be Satanic. Sometimes it makes me just sit back and laugh. I heard about one church in Iowa where this big hick preacher took a double-edged sword and sliced a Pikachu(sp.?) action figure in half as he screamed AMEN!!! in a burly tone. Some of these people seriously need to be locked up in the wack farm if you ask me.....

[Quixote1818]

8. I have been to a school affiliated with a church that burned Harry Potter books

It was a church in Alamogordo, New Mexico and it made International News. I was at the school one day in a classroom and happened to look down and see this little book about Harry Potter and how it was evil. I grabbed several copies to show all my friends. It's the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life. It's called "I have a brew for you" and shows Harry Potter with a serpent in his hand. Actually it was a Python but who is checking? LOL!

[hatrack]

9. Could be worse - one of these "preachers" said that Mr. Ed was satanic

And, in fact, if you played "A Horse Is A Horse" backwards, you'd hear messages from . . . SATAN!!!!!

:eyes:

[Warren Stupidity]

6. The pope believes in evolution.

Not all christians are fundaloons.

[Crabby Appleton]

7. and so does the National Park Service

even though some people have asserted that the NPS "beleives" for religious reasons that the canyon conforms to a 6,000 year old earth, this is simply not an accurate description of the NPS position.

Check the NPS site for yourself

[Hardrada]

11. I was sorry when he died. He died 11/22/1963.

The same day as JFK's assassination. The same day as my birthday. And it snowed that afternoon, the first time all fall.

[madeline_con]

12. I want to know.....

why can't the idea of upsetting intelligent people drive the policy at geological parks?

Why does it have to be about what STOOPID peeple think???!!!

[MisterP]

13. a nice liberal-Evangelical ripping of "Left Behind," includes Lewis and a host

of other philosophers, Christian and otherwise:
http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/left_behind/index.html