“More disquieting still is Professor D.M.S. Watson’s defense. “Evolution itself,”
he wrote, “is accepted by zoologists not because it has been observed to occur
or….can be proved by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only
alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible.” Has it come to that?
Does the whole vast structure of modern naturalism depend not on positive evidence
but simply on an a priori metaphysical prejudice. Was it devised not to get in facts
but to keep out God?”
he wrote, “is accepted by zoologists not because it has been observed to occur
or….can be proved by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only
alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible.” Has it come to that?
Does the whole vast structure of modern naturalism depend not on positive evidence
but simply on an a priori metaphysical prejudice. Was it devised not to get in facts
but to keep out God?”
– C.S. Lewis, in an address to the Oxford Socratic Club, 1944
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