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On Platonic forms/Gnosticism of "The Place of the Lion" by Chas Williams and influence upon C.S. Lewis per "The Battle for Middle Earth" by Jos. Loconte and how JRR Tolkein and CS Lewis viewed their work (i.e., The Rings, Narnia) in response to the rising materialism/cynicism of Western Civilization. In like manner, John wonders at the transcendent reality behind the seen, talks of scientific resistance to design regardless the evidence, because it challenges Darwinism (hence string theory and the cosmic landscape) and to God being outside of time and space regardless what quantum mechanics' evidence, because it challenges the Copernican "revolution" (hence the Many Worlds interpretation). John remarks on Darwin's impact on those who grow up initially believing in the goodness of what lies behind creation with its implication that God isn't there at all, depriving them of joy. He sings a song from the perspective of one who grew up believing but becomes jaded due to instruction that there must be no God. John believes the evidence points to a profound love, from the instigation of the universe to the arrival of God's Son to die on the cross and to rise again as the realization of it all.
By John BerglundOn Platonic forms/Gnosticism of "The Place of the Lion" by Chas Williams and influence upon C.S. Lewis per "The Battle for Middle Earth" by Jos. Loconte and how JRR Tolkein and CS Lewis viewed their work (i.e., The Rings, Narnia) in response to the rising materialism/cynicism of Western Civilization. In like manner, John wonders at the transcendent reality behind the seen, talks of scientific resistance to design regardless the evidence, because it challenges Darwinism (hence string theory and the cosmic landscape) and to God being outside of time and space regardless what quantum mechanics' evidence, because it challenges the Copernican "revolution" (hence the Many Worlds interpretation). John remarks on Darwin's impact on those who grow up initially believing in the goodness of what lies behind creation with its implication that God isn't there at all, depriving them of joy. He sings a song from the perspective of one who grew up believing but becomes jaded due to instruction that there must be no God. John believes the evidence points to a profound love, from the instigation of the universe to the arrival of God's Son to die on the cross and to rise again as the realization of it all.