God in the Dock

EVIL AND GOD
DR JOAD’S ARTICLE ON ‘GOD AND EVIL’ LAST WEEK1 SUGGESTS the interesting conclusion that since neither ‘mechanism’ nor ‘emergent evolution’ will hold water, we must choose in the long run between some monotheistic philosophy, like the Christian, and some such dualism as that of the Zoroastrians. I agree with Dr Joad in rejecting mechanism and emergent evolution. Mechanism, like all materialist systems, breaks down at the problem of knowledge.

Lewis provides: his realism, his moral rectitude, his ability to see beyond the partial perspectives which limit so many existentialists.

The absence of moral values is so acutely felt today that it would seem a pity not to make public whatever help is available to our confused and spiritually-starved world.