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

[@samuelmatz]

Fascinating essay . C.S. Lewis a very special man. He takes very difficult issues and wants talk about them. Allowing his listener to think and grow intellectually. 'GOD sent' indeed was he.

[@CJBradley]

A man so far ahead of his time that he could never be present at the time when humanity most needed him.

[@johnmcclain3887]

I've been listening to these for about a week, and have found them very clear and compelling. I found his statement on "ethics" to be precise and concise for the moment, regarding the political, the medical, the emergent "new ethic, to flatten the curve" et al. I find it constantly remarkable God had preceded me in everything, all the time. I find myself flabbergasted at the fact God could love mere me, sometimes, yet always the certain promise, He does.

[@petermcguckin2045]

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[@rasheedknox2140]

Amen.

[@stephenmerritt5750]

The actual science of evolution and genetics shows two things: the vast majority of organisms are in decline from a previous state and that the ability to adapt is already present in the genetic code itself. Nothing is being added to what is already present. The world is on its way out, not on its way up, mankind included. The idea that mankind will climb the genetic ladder and obtain the ability to master and manipulate and eventually dictate his own nature, is an absurdity. This is the actual myth at work within the minds and imagination of every video gamer and pseudo-philosopher.

[@johnmcclain3887]

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.

[@peterplotts1238]

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.

[@ianinkster2261]

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.

[@itsjkforreal]

@@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.

[@elijahbachrach6579]

@@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.

[@n8sterling727]

C S Lewis is an absolute monster with these Essays. May everyone here these Intellectual gems.

[@kirstimehto526]

I wonder if C.S. would enjoy the myths told in 2021.

[@wynnschaible]

Those who believe them would cancel him!

[@christianali5431]

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

[@stephenattwood]

I think he would like the Norse god of war

[@younggrasshopper3531]

Hit or miss I bet

[@rawar777joshanderson]

27:17 Spot on. This point is more and more true as we move into the future.

[@jackuber7358]

The mental agility evinced within these talks is staggering. Hearing Lewis string together cogent thoughts of inescapable logic is much like watching a skein of thread slowly but inexorably transform into an intricate and beautiful lace at the hands of a master.

[@slohand624]

Such an intellect - so needed in this time and place!

[@samename1st]

It is both scary and reassuring that he perfectly describes modern day "progressivism" in this essay. Scary to think how long this has been ignored and grown like cancer, but reassuring that it is nothing new and we are armed with tried and true methods of fighting it.

[@rebanelson607]

Thank you for posting these essays. I probably would not have come across them otherwise. Lewis' insight and reasoning always amaze me.

[@AureliaPatiño]

Por favor, publiquemos en español.GraciS

[@mostlynotworking4112]

Here from pvk comment thread

[@christianali5431]

I don’t mean to brag, but I’ve been saying something of this type for years, and I am honored to CS Lewis was the one who said it first. Atheistic Evolution, and not Christianized creationism, is the true comforting lie of this, and all other subsequent, generations. Through evolution, we have done away with our need for divine salvation, and replaced it with a self-made rescue from the much more easily forgivable sin of stupidity. We have seen the fallen Angel transform into the rising Ape, and have celebrated his elevation to the heights of intellectual glorification, rather than mourn his dissent from a spiritual enlightenment and personal relationship with God. We did not lose our souls, they were never in any place to be found to begin with.

[@christophersnedeker2065]

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.

[@christianali5431]

@@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.

[@123duelist]

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

[@AmericanCrusader222]

Lewis is literally on another plane of existence compared to others. He not only hurdles his adversaries but comes back to the Earth’s surface to explain his stance in an articulate manner but in a way that everyone can understand.

[@mavisemberson8737]

Space and Time are the problem. We perceive Time serially but God created Time and is outside of it. that is , what is of immense age to us is NOW . Evolution would be a matter of change over time special creation would be one act or short series of acts. in Time. The perspective hinges on whether God is outside of Time and acts in whart we perceive as Past Present and Future.

[@flappyturtlesnatch]

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

[@mattmichaels3980]

Entropy, 3rd Law of Thermodynamics states, all systems go from a state of order to a state of disorder unless acted upon by an outside force or addition of energy

[@younggrasshopper3531]

Nail on the head, ol Chris. You done it again, way ahead of your time 💜

[@travelsouthafrica5048]

Jack

[@kennyg1358]

Clive

[@williamdehner3968]

The John Lennox of his Days, I Would Humbly Say....

[@isaiahwray1521]

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

[@travelsouthafrica5048]

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

[@rebanelson607]

@@travelsouthafrica5048 That is an illogical assumption.

[@travelsouthafrica5048]

@@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

[@robertspearssr.8656]

I love it. So Cool.

[@travelsouthafrica5048]

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

[@zgobermn6895]

Lewis is always a crisp thinker.

[@bethanyjohnson8001]

Thank you for this channel! Lewis is my favorite non-Catholic apologist (and I would argue his ideas are more Catholic than not).

[@Oblivius33]

Important even, or perhaps more, in our age

[@Imperial_Boltgun]

Eruditely sppken

[@Hannah-fe4yf]

7:32

[@uiPublic]

Sinners among scientism isn't any to be assumed as exception or beyond redemptive pale just as son of man's

[@uiPublic]

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

[@pj_ytmt-123]

C.S. Lewis was smart. Ken Ham is _wise._

[@christophersnedeker]

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.

[@pj_ytmt-123]

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

[@christophersnedeker]

About the rocket, while it's true the rocket came from the mind of a man, it wasn't invented by a savage ignorant if all machinery, it involved the implication of previous inventions such as the steam engine and the rail car.

[@alessandroaiezza4339]

Oof

[@cthoadmin7458]

We are on the cusp of becoming gods. Looking forward to AI conferring god like powers. Time to ditch our superstition ridden infancy and embrace the infinite we are creating for ourselves.

[@CSLewisessays]

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.”

[@cthoadmin7458]

@@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.

[@christophersnedeker2065]

@@cthoadmin7458 can men be trusted with godhood?

[@rebanelson607]

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

[@elijahbachrach6579]

Weston? Is that you, Professor?

[@aosidh]

File this one under "speculative fiction/fantasy" with his better works

[@christophersnedeker]

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

[@goyonman9655]

​@@christophersnedeker The commenter is a disingeneous actor