In existographies, Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) (IQ:150|#616) [RGM:169|1,500+] (CR:18), aka “C.S. Lewis”, was an Irish-born English writer, popularly known for his 1956 The Chronicles of Narnia, intellectually known for his 1940s atheism-turned-apologetics work, the most-cited of which being his 1952 Mere Christianity.“This law or rule about right or wrong used to be called the law of nature. Nowadays, when we talk of the ‘laws of nature’ we usually mean things like gravitation, or heredity, or the laws of chemistry. But when the old thinkers called the law of right and wrong the ‘law of nature’, the really meant the law of human nature. The idea was that just as all bodies are governed by the law of gravitation, and organisms by biological laws, so the creature called man also had this law—with this great difference, that a body could NOT choose whether it obeyed the law of gravitation or not, but a man COULD choose either to obey the law of human nature or to disobey it.”— C.S. Lewis (1944), Mere Christianity (pg. 4)
“It seems, then, we are forced to believe in a real right and wrong. People may be sometimes mistaken about them, just as people sometimes get their sums wrong; but they are not a matter of mere taste and opinion any more than the multiplication table.”
“Let’s focus on that one statement: ‘love is a chemical reaction’. That’s an incredibly deep statement and I think it’s a lie from the pit of hell.”— Anon (2011), Texas man (Ѻ); one of whose favorite books is Lewis’ Mere Christianity, Apr 6
“Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a by-product, the sensation I call thought. But, if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? It’s like upsetting a milk jug and hoping that the way it splashes itself will give you a map of London. But if I can’t trust my own thinking, of course I can’t trust the arguments leading to atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an atheist, or anything else. Unless I believe in god, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in god.”References— C.S. Lewis (c.1950), an argument for the existence of god (Ѻ); supposedly has something to do with Lewis’ earlier “argument from reason”, defended in his 1947 Miracles: a Preliminary Study, wherein he cited John Haldane’s 1927 quote: “If my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain, I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true ... and hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.” [3]“Some people draw unwarranted conclusions from the fact that I never say more about the blessed Virgin Mary that is involved in asserting the ‘virgin birth’ of Christ. But surely the reason for doing so would be obvious? To say more would take me at once into highly controversial regions. And there is no controversy between Christians which needs to be so delicately touched as this.”— C.S. Lewis (1952), “Preface” to Mere Christianity, based on three 1942-44 wartime radio talks