In one section of his book, Lewis discusses the two different viewpoints of how we came to be. The first view he discusses is that of the materialistic view where there is no religion involved. Materialists believe that everything just happened by chance and we came to be because of these very unusual and nearly impossible chances. I liked the way Lewis describes this view because he seems to be making fun of it. He constantly brings up that there has to be millions of possibilities but by some miracle, everything happened in just a way that we developed into what we are today. His other viewpoint is that of a religious one. Lewis argues that these people believe that an other worldly creature created us in his image or that of having the ability to think and have minds. Lewis seems much more towards this viewpoint because he then goes on to argue that science is unable to determine which of these viewpoints are correct and which are not. As for me, I believe that the religious view is the more correct one because Lewis is right that it would take millions of chances to form us into intelligent beings that think for themselves. From this, I wonder why such intelligent beings are able to live in a world with creature that do not think as such. Even so, I like Lewis’ explanation of the two views. I guess maybe they could be described also as intelligent design and evolution. Interestingly enough, I was considering this argument as my senior seminar paper, but was not as interested in it as good and evil.
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