Faith Well Grounded

In another thread , an argument for an intelligent creator was questioned.

Let's see if I have the argument straight: a type of biological complexity (human intelligence) is the only known cause of manufactured complexity, therefore a supernatural intelligent agency must be responsible for biological complexity. It's a non sequitur, as I'd like to think Newton would agree.

I answered:

I’m thinking lately on the problem of pain-- that of evil, that of misery, that of the overarching “wrongness” of the human condition. I’m tending to agree with C.S. Lewis that the problem of pain is a problem strictly for the Christian (in the philosophical sense, anyway).

“Pain” is not a problem for the naturalist/atheist, since it could not be expected that a random, self-created, amoral Universe would be mindful of its product. It shouldn’t be expected to care for its creation, or provide comfort as such. It can’t be expected to be mindful of us at all.

CS Lewis, in "Miracles", proposed that we can not trust our rationale if it is the result of mindless, unplanned, irrational causes. In other words, if the string of rationality is broken in the cause-effect string going back, then there is no rationality.

The implication is that if our logic and rationality is the result of naturalistic evolution, then we can't trust that logic and rationality. If our rationality is thus caused, then the rationality of naturalism has no basis and is self-defeating and internally inconsistent.

I'm a pretty boring, geeky guy. Along with my Bible study, devotional, and prescribed reading, I do a lot of reading in support of my apologetics interests. Yesterday and today I started and finished "The Screwtape Letters", by CS Lewis. It is more or less an apologetic fiction work (or maybe better described as theo-fiction), and I can't even describe what a blessing it was to me-- and what it will continue to be in the future. I HIGHLY recommend it if you enjoy reading, or even if you don't.