pWho ought to hold claim to the more dangerous idea--Charles Darwin or C. S. Lewis Daniel Dennett argued for Darwin in emDarwin's Dangerous Ideaem Touchstone Books, 1996. In this book Victor Reppert champions C. S. Lewis. Darwinists attempt to use science to show that our world and its inhabitants can be fully explained as the product of a mindless, purposeless system of physics and chemistry. But Lewis claimed in his argument from reason that if such materialism or naturalism were true then scientific reasoning itself could not be trusted. Victor Reppert believes that Lewis's arguments have been too often dismissed. In emC. S. Lewis's Dangerous Ideaem Reppert offers careful, able development of Lewis's thought and demonstrates that the basic thrust of Lewis's argument from reason can bear up under the weight of the most serious philosophical attacks. Charging dismissive critics, Christian and not, with emad hominemem arguments, Reppert also revisits the debate and subsequent interacti