C.S. Lewis and Scientific Reductionism
‘I am Ramandu. But I see that you stare at one another and have not heard this name. And no wonder, for the days when I was a star had ceased long before any of you knew this world, and all the constellations have changed.’
‘Golly,’ said Edmund under his breath. ‘He’s a retired star.’
…’In our world,’ said Eustace, ‘a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.’
‘Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is but only what it is made of…’
CS Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn treader, 1955. (From chapter 14: Th ebeginning fo teh edn fo eth world)
