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On this ID the Future<\/strong> award-winning actor Max McLean joins host John West to discuss his new film, The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis<\/a><\/em>. West and McLean discuss how McClean came to do stage plays focused on Lewis\u2019s work, and how he and filmmaker Norman Stone came to create a feature-length dramatic film in the midst of the coronavirus shutdown. McLean tells about Lewis\u2019s long and winding conversion from agnosticism to Christianity, and then he and West focus on those aspects of Lewis\u2019s conversion centered on science, evolutionary theory, and rational theism. Key to Lewis\u2019s move from agnosticism to idealism and eventually Judeo-Christian theism\u2014his friend Owen Barfield and the question of the origin of reason. Lewis realized that Darwinian materialism gives us little reason to trust our reason (as Darwin himself conceded in one of his franker moments). Lewis determined that he should and inevitably does trust the human capacity to reason. And if that trust is based on something real, then we have strong grounds to distrust Darwinian materialism, Lewis decided. For more on Lewis\u2019s views on science, evolution, intelligent design, and the rational case for theism, check out this Discovery Institute website on C.S. Lewis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this ID the Future award-winning actor Max McLean joins host John West to discuss his new film, The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis. West and McLean discuss how McClean came to do stage plays focused on Lewis\u2019s work, and how he and filmmaker Norman Stone came to create a feature-length dramatic film in the midst of the coronavirus shutdown. McLean tells about Lewis\u2019s long and winding conversion from agnosticism to Christianity, and then he and West focus on those aspects of Lewis\u2019s conversion centered on science, evolutionary theory, and rational theism. Key to Lewis\u2019s move from agnosticism to idealism and eventually Judeo-Christian theism\u2014his friend Owen Barfield and the question of the origin of reason. Lewis Read More ›<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":40035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","sync_status":"synced","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/episodes.castos.com\/id\/89262d76-151d-4720-ac42-75dae5b3d911-IDTF-1518-MaxMcLean-Lewis.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"708981","podmotor_episode_id":"722096","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:29:06","filesize":"14.5 mb","filesize_raw":"15237801","date_recorded":"2021-10-18","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"1518","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"full","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4683,2095,4694,126,219,269,4690,4697,410,4696,4687,4693,3546,856,4682,4698,4695,4692,4700,3199,4699,4691,4689,4684,4686,4685,4688,1526,4193],"series":[7227],"speaker":[],"class_list":["post-40034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-albert-lewis","tag-apologetics","tag-argument-from-undesign","tag-atheism","tag-c-s-lewis","tag-charles-darwin","tag-christian-conversion","tag-cslewismovie-com","tag-darwinism","tag-dymer","tag-fellowship-for-performing-arts","tag-further-up-and-further-in","tag-idealism","tag-john-g-west","tag-max-mclean","tag-narnia","tag-origin-of-reason","tag-owen-barfield","tag-pilgrims-regress","tag-problem-of-pain","tag-shaodowlands","tag-surprised-by-joy","tag-the-great-divorce","tag-the-magicians-twin-2","tag-the-most-reluctant-convert","tag-the-most-reluctant-convert-the-untold-story-of-c-s-lewis","tag-the-screwtape-letters","tag-theism","tag-world-war-i","series-intelligent-design-the-future"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Max McLean"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/image001.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/idthefuture-cover.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-download\/40034\/1518.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/40034\/1518.mp3","audio_player":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/40034\/1518.mp3<\/a><\/audio>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/feed\/podcast\/intelligent-design-the-future","embedCode":"

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