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[[Image:Jhcfju6.jpg|right|thumb|C. S. Lewis, 1947.]]
[[Image:Jhcfju6.jpg|right|thumb|C. S. Lewis, 1947.]]
C.S. Lewis (full name: '''Clive Staples Lewis''') (1898-1963) was raised in the Church of [[Ireland]], and became in stages agnostic, theist, and [[Church of England|Anglican]]. {{Fact}} He was a professor at [[Oxford]] and [[Cambridge]]. He and [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] were friends, both belonging to the group known as "the Inklings." He credits Tolkien with influencing his conversion. He fought in the trenches during World War I, and was extremely sceptical of those who did not either smoke or drink. <ref name="HOTF">[[Heroes of the Faith C.S.Lewis]] By Sam Wellman, Barbour Publishing, Inc. 1997.</ref>
C.S. Lewis (full name: '''Clive Staples Lewis''') (1898-1963) was raised in the Church of [[Ireland]], and became in stages agnostic, theist, and [[Church of England|Anglican]].<ref>Barnes, Peter, [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/5052 C.S. Lewis and evolution] (Creation Ministries International), 2007.</ref> He was a professor at [[Oxford]] and [[Cambridge]]. He and [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] were friends, both belonging to the group known as "the Inklings." He credits Tolkien with influencing his conversion. He fought in the trenches during World War I, and was extremely sceptical of those who did not either smoke or drink. <ref name="HOTF">[[Heroes of the Faith C.S.Lewis]] By Sam Wellman, Barbour Publishing, Inc. 1997.</ref>
Lewis' fictional works include seven books for children known collectively as ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]],'' and three books for adults that fall broadly in the science-fiction genre: ''[[Out of the Silent Planet]],'' ''[[Perelandra]],'' and ''[[That Hideous Strength]].'' Like Tolkien's fiction, these works have a Christian subtext, more noticeable in Lewis than in Tolkien.
Lewis' fictional works include seven books for children known collectively as ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]],'' and three books for adults that fall broadly in the science-fiction genre: ''[[Out of the Silent Planet]],'' ''[[Perelandra]],'' and ''[[That Hideous Strength]].'' Like Tolkien's fiction, these works have a Christian subtext, more noticeable in Lewis than in Tolkien.
C.S. Lewis also wrote in ''[[Mere Christianity]]'', "That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. ... is a religion you could not have guessed. ... [I]t is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have." <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=xaiKVRqfSlsC&pg=RA1-PA27&lpg=RA1-PA27&dq=%22it+is+not+the+sort+of+thing+anyone+would+have+made+up%22&source=web&ots=8Ur9Pe1rBL&sig=7ctGd17k8AUy6akHehmevOzsiLk#PRA1-PA27,M1 A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works]</ref>
C.S. Lewis also wrote in ''[[Mere Christianity]]'', "That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. ... is a religion you could not have guessed. ... [I]t is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have." <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=xaiKVRqfSlsC&pg=RA1-PA27&lpg=RA1-PA27&dq=%22it+is+not+the+sort+of+thing+anyone+would+have+made+up%22&source=web&ots=8Ur9Pe1rBL&sig=7ctGd17k8AUy6akHehmevOzsiLk#PRA1-PA27,M1 A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works]</ref>
Although not an ardent anti-evolutionist, he wrote on the futility of [[materialism]]:
{{QuoteBox|If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents—the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else’s. But if their thoughts—i.e. of materialism and astronomy—are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It’s like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milkjug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.<ref>''The Business of Heaven'', 1984, p.7 (quoted in Barnes, Peter, [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/5052 C.S. Lewis and evolution].</ref>}}
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