Evolution and Christianity

I am not either attacking or defending Evolution. I believe that Christianity can still be believed, even if Evolution is true. That is where you and I differ. Thinking as I do, I can’t help regarding your advice (that I henceforth include arguments against Evolution in all my Christian apologetics) as a temptation to fight the battle on what is really a false issue: and also on terrain very unsuitable for the only weapon I have. Atheism is as old as Epicurus, and very few polytheists regard their gods as creative.

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Lewis, “Letter to Bernard Acworth, 09 December 1944,” in The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Vol. II, ed. Walter Hooper (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004), 633.