If I had to guess about the way you think I would say you consider things shallow that connect two unrelated things, as is often the point of art or writing creatively.

I’d also hazard to guess by your writing that you wrongfully think that it’s awfully deep to connect everything to God or Christ in some way. and that seeing the world around you and thinking only of the mechanics and origins of it makes you some well balanced highly intelligent individual.

In reality I imagine you are a boring ass that nobody wants to talk to for any length of time and that has trouble keeping friends. You think that that it’s pointless to attach two things that are only superficially related and ignore that those superficial relations are much the basis of the knowledge of the physical world you praise so highly.

You are ignorant and shallow and reading your opinion has wasted precious time and I think made me less intelligent for having read it.

I suggest you read some good fiction and remove your finger from your asshole.

I’m not sure there’s any good way to separate the seeking of natural knowledge for its own sake from the seeking of such knowledge for ends which are both natural and useful. I recently learned that Einstein’s most often cited and most heavily referenced paper was a slight expansion of his doctoral thesis which dealt with the question: are molecules and atoms real or only useful ways of speaking? It turned out that his discussions and calculations of the interactions of molecules and atoms have widespread application in a lot of industrial processes, such as the understanding of the solidification of concretes.

In the end, we have to set moral ends but often use science as one of our ways of achieving those ends. Lewis was certainly good at understanding the priority of morality over utility and he was also solid in his theology, outside of a certain attitude towards this world. To be sure, he didn’t despise matter as such and taught that heaven was likely to be heavy and matter-like rather than ghostly. My problem with him perhaps is that so many of his followers take his thoughts as an excuse to deny the importance and goodness of disciplined exploration of this phase of God’s Creation, including human nature.

You may wish to an entry at my other blog, Hellenistic Metaphysics is too Small, for my view on our need to expand our understanding of what human thought can be. Pope Benedict has also called for a broadening of human reason which I interpret as his way of expressing an instinct that modern knowledge can allow a much richer understanding of Creation. Lewis, at least as understood by some of his major followers, is an obstacle to achieving that richer understanding.

The category “Christian in the universe of Einstein” might also be of interest to you.