C.S. Lewis is, by far, my favorite author. I am on a very personal C.S. odyssey to reread all of his writings over the next 90 days. I just finished my second study of his book, The Problem of Pain. Genius.
Today, I’m picking up The Weight of Glory and like a little kid, I am giddy with anticipation. Yes, I’m weird.
In reading his pain pill for the second time I was struck by something I had missed the first time and missed in all of his other writings. I discovered something very obvious and quite odd. Lewis believes, as do I, that creation and evolution are true. That I’ve come to this belief isn’t so incredible. That Lewis, in 1940, concluded this is pure genius. AND, that he goes public and broadcasts it can only be reflective of his very strong CORE. The DNA discovery wasn’t here and wouldn’t be for a long, long, time and the Church was almost ubiquitously against such a claim.
Here’s evidence of his belief from page 72.
“I offer the following picture – a ‘myth’ in the Socratic sense, a not unlikely tale. For long centuries God perfected the animal form which was to become the vehicle of humanity and the image of Himself. He gave it hands, whose thumb could be applied to each of the fingers, and jaws and teeth and throat capable of articulation, and a brain sufficiently complex to execute all the material motions whereby rational thought is incarnated. The creature may have existed for ages in this state before it became man: it may have even been clever enough to make things which a modern archealogist would accept as proof of its humanity. But it was only an animal because all its physical and physical processes were directly to purely material and natural ends. Then, in the fullness of time, God caused to descend upon this organism, both on its psychology and physiology, an new kind of consciousness which could say, ‘I’ and ‘me’, which could look upon itself as an object, which knew God, which could make judgements of truth, beauty, and goodness, and which was so far above time that it could perceive time flowing past.” He goes on and on beautifully. I’ll stop.
What do you believe about the big questions of life?
What is the basis for those beliefs?
When was the last time you challenged them?
Why do you believe your deepest held beliefs to be TRUE?
Why is the authentic authoring of your worldview the greatest writing, I believe, any human can complete?
Tell me more, my friend.
Tell me more…
BUILT TO LEAD 
You want to know something funny? I, like you, believe creation and evolution are true. To me it just doesn’t seem black or white (an unrelated but related other core belief, but I digress). Of course things evolve, look at most world records over the last 25 years. There are very few that last longer than that signifying we are “improving” from an actual physical standpoint.
On the creation side of things, I just can’t wrap my head around the notion that out of emptiness came something and out of that something came ridiculously complex life function. There just seems to be an intention and “deliberateness” of how much of the living world IS.
Now this perspective from Master Lewis is a powerful AND to my belief’s. I love how he articulated the differentiator between man and animal, “a new kind of consciousness”.
Freaking powerful and hard to argue!