The Rival Conceptions of God by C. S. Lewis Doodle ( BBC Talk 6, Mere Christianity, Bk 2, Chapter 1)

This is an illustration of C. S Lewis first talk in the series called What Christians Believe. This became Chapter 11 in the book called Mere Christianity. You can find the book here: The original radio broadcast included another powerful metaphysical argument for Theism (see quote below), however, this was a brand new argument at this stage, with none of the counter arguments addressed due to the broadcast time limit, so it was removed from the book Mere Christianity for simplicitys sake. However, you can find this argument fully worked through in chapters 3 in Lewis book called Miracles and in various essays. There are all sorts of different reasons for believing in God, and here Ill mention only one. It is this. Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen for ph