C.S. Lewis Rejected Eugenics
Many Christians, especially those with more intellectual interests, are fond of C.S. Lewis. Also known as Jack, Lewis is popularly known for The Chronicles of Narnia written in the 1950s. Several of those books had Christian allegories. Lewis wrote many times warning the world about Scientism, a de facto religion where science is salvation for humanity . He also opposed evolution despite how some people claim he as a theistic evolutionist. Not as widely known is his resistance to eugenics. Francis Galton was a cousin of Charles Darwin. He took Charlie's Victorian evolution fantasy further by developing eugenics. The word means well born or good genes , and is a natural extension of evolution ; the best people should survive and reproduce, the inferior people should be forbidden from reproducing, including through forced sterilization. Abortion is a big part of eugenics — which should come as no surprise. America imported the English philosophy enthusiastically, a...