Tag: C.S. Lewis

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Max McLean

Date
October 18, 2021

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Albert Lewis, apologetics, argument from undesign, Atheism, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Christian conversion, CSLewismovie.com, Darwinism, Dymer, Fellowship for Performing Arts, Further Up and Further In, idealism, John G. West, Max McLean, Narnia, origin of reason, Owen Barfield, Pilgrim’s Regress, problem of pain, Shaodowlands, Surprised by Joy, The Great Divorce, The Magician’s Twin, The Most Reluctant Convert, The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Theism, World War I}

Max McLean Talks about His New C.S. Lewis Movie

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October 18, 2021

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On this ID the Future award-winning actor Max McLean joins host John West to discuss his new film, The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis. West and McLean discuss how McClean came to do stage plays focused on Lewis’s work, and how he and filmmaker Norman Stone came to create a feature-length dramatic film in the midst of the coronavirus shutdown. McLean tells about Lewis’s long and winding conversion from agnosticism to Christianity, and then he and West focus on those aspects of Lewis’s conversion centered on science, evolutionary theory, and rational theism. Key to Lewis’s move from agnosticism to idealism and eventually Judeo-Christian theism—his friend Owen Barfield and the question of the origin of reason. Lewis Read More ›

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Author
Jay Richards

Date
August 2, 2021

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agnosticism, Aristotle, Atheism, book of nature, C.S. Lewis, Carl Sagan, Copernican Principle, cosmic beginning, cosmos, discoverability, earth, eternal universe, extrasolar planets, fifth element, fine tuning, founders of modern science, Galileo, general revelation, Gloria Patri, habitability, Intelligent Design, Jay W. Richards, Kepler, Materialism, pale blue dot, Pantheism, Pre-Copernican cosmology, Psalm 19, purpose, Science and faith, scientific revolution, space exploration, The Privileged Planet, Theism}

Jay Richards: Before Carl Sagan Said It, Science Debunked It

_{Jay Richards

August 2, 2021

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On today’s ID the Future, Privileged Planet co-author Jay W. Richards sits down with host Eric Anderson to discuss the gold rush of extrasolar planet discovery and how the Privileged Planet hypothesis has held up since 2004. Richards teases an anniversary edition of The Privileged Planet in the works, and he and Anderson discuss the statement that Carl Sagan is perhaps most famous for. Richards explains how science had already disproven the famous Sagan claim by the time the astronomer first uttered it to millions of viewers in his documentary series Cosmos.

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Author
John G. West

Date
August 26, 2020

Tagged
__edited, 1984, Aldous Huxley, argument from reason, authoritarianism, Brave New World, C. John Collins, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Daniel Bell, dehumanization, Disneyland, dystopia, Ethics, Eugenics, George Orwell, Jay W. Richards. John G. West, Michael Aeschliman, modernity, new humanity, Public Policy, scientific planning, Scientism, scientocracy, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man}

The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism, Pt. 2

_{John G. West

August 26, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, we bring you the second half of John West's documentary The Magician's Twin: C. S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Aeschliman

Date
August 24, 2020

Tagged
__edited, Aldous Huxley, Angus Menuge, Barack Obama, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, credulity, Darwin Day, G.K. Chesterton, gullibility, H. G. Wells, Michael Aeschliman, Reason Rally, Richard Dawkins, science as religion, Sigmund Freud, skepticism, That Hideous Strength, The Magician's Twin, Victor Reppert}

The Magician’s Twin: C. S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism, Pt. 1

_{Michael Aeschliman

August 24, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, we recognize the 75th anniversary this month of the publication of C. S. Lewis’s prophetic science fiction novel That Hideous Strength, with the first slightly abridged part of John West’s documentary The Magician’s Twin: C. S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism. Several scholars were interviewed for the film, including Jay Richards, Angus Menuge, Victor Reppert, John West, and Michael Aeschliman. Scientism is the idea that science is the ultimate path to knowledge and wisdom — the only sure path — and that the spiritual realm is a mirage. Lewis never criticized science, only scientism, the abuse of science that bears an unexpected twinship with magic.

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Author
John Lennox

Date
July 29, 2020

Tagged
__edited, artificial intelligence (AI), augmentation, C.S. Lewis, Dan Brown, Frankenstein, genetic modification, human exceptionalism, image of God, imago dei, Jordan Peterson, Mary Shelley, Max Tegmark, Prometheus, science fiction, superintelligence, The Abolition of Man, transhumanism}

John Lennox Talks AI, SciFi, Transhumanism and the Image of God

_{John Lennox

July 29, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, host Robert Marks continues his conversation with Oxford University mathematician John Lennox about Lennox’s new book 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. Lennox reviews mythology and science fiction writing stretching from the ancient poet Hesiod to the novelist Dan Brown and MIT physicist Max Tegmark. He says that artificial intelligence (AI) predictions down through the ages are all heavily dependent on theological and philosophical presuppositions. He and Marks also discuss AI’s cousin, transhumanism, its surprising history, and its potentially very dark future, including the risk of what C.S. Lewis called “the abolition of man.”

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Author
John Lennox

Date
July 27, 2020

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__edited, 1984, AGI, AI and ethics, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence (AI), automation, C.S. Lewis, consciousness, George Orwell, medicine, self-driving cars, That Hideous Strength, transhumanism, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

John Lennox on What (Not) to Expect of AI in 2084

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July 27, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, host Robert Marks interviews Oxford University mathematician John Lennox on Lennox’s new book 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. It’s a wide-ranging discussion about AI’s advantages already being realized, in medicine, for example; AI’s supposed potential to achieve human-like consciousness; ethical issues that AI programmers will have to grapple with; effects that AI will have on the economy and individual workers; and the risks associated with living in an AI world where every movement is tracked. A key question as we move toward this future, says Lennox, is what does it mean to be human?

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Author
John G. West

Date
July 13, 2020

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__edited, Academic Freedom, Angus Menuge, Antony Flew, apologetics, argument from design, argument from functional complexity, argument from joy, argument from natural beauty, argument from reason, argument from suboptimal design, C.S. Lewis, history of science, Intelligent Design, natural law, open inquiry, Oxford Socratic Club, problem of pain, Theism, Victor Reppert}

C. S. Lewis and Intelligent Design

_{John G. West

July 13, 2020

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On the episode of ID the Future we bring you a production by Discovery Institute about C.S. Lewis and Intelligent Design. With contributions by Discovery Institute’s John West and philosophers Victor Reppert and Angus Menuge, we hear about Lewis’s early doubts about God based in part on an argument from undesign or “bad design” in nature, and how he moved from this position to developing multiple arguments for intelligent design. Another contribution he made to the intelligent design project wasn’t a specific argument but the example he set. As John West explains near the end of the episode, one of his greatest contributions was a commitment to free inquiry and open debate, one he modeled while a professor at Oxford Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 21, 2019

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__edited, agnosticism, Atheism, C.S. Lewis, David Attenborough, God, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, reason, termites, Theism, theistic arguments, Thomas Aquinas, will, William Lane Craig}

Michael Egnor on Atheist Jerry Coyne’s Divine Sense Organ

_{Michael Egnor

October 21, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid brings listeners a pair of Michael Egnor responses to atheist biologist Jerry Coyne, who recently argued that if God existed, we’d have sense organs to detect Him. We do have that organ, says Egnor. It’s reason, the means by which we can infer the reality of a designing mind behind nature.

Aeschliman on Three Great Authors Critiquing Scientism

_{Michael Aeschliman

October 16, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid concludes his two-part conversations with Michael Aeschliman, author of the newly revised and expanded The Restoration of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientism. Here Aeschliman places Lewis among a strong line of thinkers critiquing scientism, including the philosopher/mathematician Blaise Pascal, who showed that scientific knowledge on its own could never be sufficient for being fully human; the theologian and physicist Stanley L. Jaki, who brilliantly integrated science and theology; and the great English author Jonathan Swift, whose satirical work skewered the illusions of scientific reductionism.

Aeschliman Talks C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man, and That Hideous Strength

_{Michael Aeschliman

October 14, 2019

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Michael Aeschliman, author of the newly revised and expanded The Restoration of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientism sits down with host Andrew McDiarmid to explore Lewis’s The Abolition of Man, its defense of natural law, and its bracing takedown of scientism. Read More ›