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Reddit mentions of The Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength) by C.S. Lewis (2011) Paperback
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We found 2 Reddit mentions of The Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength) by C.S. Lewis (2011) Paperback. Here are the top ones.
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No -- even if you take the Bible quite literally and think that God created the earth fully formed from nothing, and humans are a special element in creation, there's nothing that I know of which says the same thing couldn't be done elsewhere.
Of course if you are a Christian who thinks that evolution is just the tool God used to create life, then you should expect intelligent life somewhere else in the universe just as much as a non-theistic evolution-believer would expect it.
For a fantastic perspective on intelligent extraterrestrial life from C.S. Lewis, check out his essay (sermon?) "Religion and Rocketry" -- you can find it all over the web, but here's the first link from Google.
Excerpt:
> I therefore fear the practical, not the theoretical, problems which will arise if ever we meet rational creatures which are not human. Against them we shall, if we can, commit all the crimes we have already committed against creatures certainly human but differing from us in features and pigmentation; and the starry heavens will become an object to which good men can look up only with feelings of intolerable guilt, agonized pity, and burning shame.
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> Of course after the first debauch of exploitation we shall make some belated attempt to do better. We shall perhaps send missionaries. But can even missionaries be trusted? "Gun and gospel" have been horribly combined in the past. The missionary's holy desire to save souls has not always been kept quite distinct from the arrogant desire, the busybody's itch, to (as he calls it) "civilize" the (as he calls them) "natives."
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> .. But let us thank God that we are still very far from travel to other worlds. ...
His perspective is one I've found unique in Christian thinkers. Another fun fact: Lewis' Space Trilogy appears to be his "grown up fiction" based on his speculation in that essay, and is a tremendously entertaining way to engage with some of Lewis' takes on theology.
No. CS Lewis space trilogy.