Why is it VERSUS?

Well so much for mathematics, physics, chaos theory, blood-splatter analysis and so on.It seems as if he’s saying one accident invalidates all which follows, but wouldn’t the alternative be predestination which would mean that God is a tyrant.

My point is that It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milkjug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset. doesn’t hold the same water now that it did when he wrote those words. From the accidental splash we can know far more than Lewis could have ever imagined.I just don’t get the quote you posted, the science and logic behind it just seem pure crap to me. Big red flag is the use of ‘why’ as opposed to ‘how’, and insertion of the word ‘mere’.I come to the conclusion based on what you quoted. His point seems to be that if there was an accident then the rest of any chain must also accidents This seems a highly questionable claim, but let’s run with it. He’s clearly saying that we can’t be here because of accidents, so we must be here because of the actions of his particular ‘god’. Now, if he actually believes that any accident in a chain makes all that follows an accident then God always has to act on everything. This would seem that God had to control everything least an accident creep in. If there are no accidents, that sounds like predestination to me.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I am not sure I’m willing to concede the point he seems to be trying to make. While we might be wrong I’m not sure that means we must in all cases be wrong. Certainly our reasoning seems to be valid on many occasions. If I am correct in that, then isn’t his quote then implying, therefore the ToE can’t be correct and there must be Goddoneit?

In any Universe where 'stuff happens', then properties would have to be either consistent enough for said stuff to happen or if completely inconsistent, nothing could evolve to the point to recognize that stuff was happening. Seem like this touching a bit like the puddle being made just right for the pot-hole analogy.