Miracles

So many things I had never thought of were fully articulated in this essay, and I leave it with a stronger reason for believing what I believe.

Some people think that there are two schools on intellectual thought: science and religion, and that the biggest problems facing science can theoretically be solved (the origin of life, the fine tuning of the universe, and other questions on the fringes of our knowledge), and that the biggest problem facing religion (the problem of evil) categorically cannot be solved. I think the latter part is true in that there is no sure graspable conclusion of that problem in this life unless Jesus comes back and raises all of creation back to life.

Anyway, this book introduced such a problem to science: rational thought, that if there is a purely naturalistic explanation for every action, our inferences also came about arbitrarily, including the inference that our inferences aren't arbitrary, thus undermining all rational thought. And this book follows the argument for supernature starting at the soundness of rational thought, which is a place most of us assume to be true.

Anyway, philosophical waxing done with, that was a really cool read!

I thought this book would be insightful and interesting. It was neither. C. S. Lewis brain is too big for his head. His train of thought was rambling and not too clear on the subject matter of Miracles. He seemed to speak above the reader and not on the level you could understand what he was trying to get across because his words were many. On the other hand his Novels are top notch. Just not this book. The Appendix titled Special Presentations is the only sense I got out of the whole book. Many chapters were skipped over because they were repetitive.