John Lennox

thumb|John Lennox, 2015 John Carson Lennox (born 7 November 1943) is a British professor emeritus of mathematics, author, philosopher of science, and Christian apologist. Quotes Why is there something rather than nothing? Why, in particular, does the universe exist? Where did it come from and where, if anywhere, is it heading? Is it itself the ultimate reality behind which there is nothing or is there something 'beyond' it? Can we ask with Richard Feynman: 'What is the meaning of it all?" Or was Bertrand Russell right when he said that 'The universe is just there, and that's all'? God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? 2009 2nd 7 https://books.google.com/books?id=yiTvBXHZwpwC&pg=PA7 (1st edition, 2007) ... energy, light, gravity, and consciousness ... You believe in these things because of their explanatory power as concepts. ... God is not a monolith ... God is Himself a fellowship ... Who Created God? John Lennox at The Veritas Forum at UCLA 10 May 2011 YouTube The Veritas Forum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIknACeeS0g (quote at 8:35 of 10:39) I think atheism undermines science very seriously because if you think of the basic assumption that all of us who are scientists have, that is, we believe in the rational intelligibility of the universe. And, it's interesting to me that scientists of the eminence of Eugene Wigner and Albert Einstein used the word “faith.” They cannot imagine a scientist without this faith because, of course, they point out that you've got to believe in the rational intelligibility of the universe before you can do any science at all. Science doesn't give you that. Richard Dawkins vs John Lennox | The God Delusion Debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF5bPI92-5o&t=2358s It was belief in God that motivated the advance of science in the 16th and 17th centuries. Gallelo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton expected to find law in nature because they believed in a great law giver. Now so often we hear the new atheists talk about faith, depricating it. I want to tell you that scientists are all people of faith. As Einstein saw, they believe that the universe is accessable to the human mind and physics can not explain that for the simple reason that you can't do physics without believing that the universe is intelligable. So science required faith. Christopher Hitchens vs John Lennox | Is God Great? Debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OXPlUCGScY&feature=youtu.be&t=1831 [M]odern science as we know it, exploded in the 16th and 17th centuries and it arose out of a theistic background. And many philosophers of science have studied this and come to the conclusion that's now called Whitehead's thesis that human beings became scientific because they expected law in nature and they expected law in nature because they believed in a law giver. I think that is profoundly important because it means far from religion hindering science, it was the driving force behind the rise of science in the first place. Richard Dawkins vs John Lennox | The God Delusion Debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF5bPI92-5o&t=1759s All people are people of Faith. Everybody's got a world view that they believe and this really exposed one of the biggest problems we have in our culture -- that Christians are regarded as people of faith. That means they believe where there's no evidence but atheists -- they're not people of Faith, they're rational and fighting against that is one of the things I've been doing for a long time. Science DOESN'T Explain What You Think It Does, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly8Qz-EfOUk&t=341s There's a very interesting statement that Paul made that the God of this world has blinded the minds of those who don't believe that there is an enemy who sets the thought forms of the world and Paul analyzes the intellectual darkness that comes about in Romans when people reject God they end up worshiping stones and inanimate things. They ascribe creatorial power to Nature because they don't believe in God and some of it is utterly absurd; and yet that is what happens and I would describe it as intellectual Darkness, but there's an enemy behind it. Science DOESN'T Explain What You Think It Does, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly8Qz-EfOUk&t=4073s The evils perpetuated by some professing branches of the Christian church have died hard. Science DOESN'T Explain What You Think It Does, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly8Qz-EfOUk&t=4144s Take the whole of the Bible, how much of it was written at a time when there was no persecution and trouble? Very little and we have had an experience in Europe, at least until relatively recently, without war for an unusual period of time and unfortunately into the vacuum there has poured all this kind of stuff postmodernism, atheism, all the rest of it. Science DOESN'T Explain What You Think It Does, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly8Qz-EfOUk&t=4238s I have a reason for trusting my mind at least in part because it is ultimately the product of the vast intelligence of a personal God as is the Universe out there; and that's why the two match together. John Lennox, the Eric Metaxas Rado Show, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqi4wH_VWsU&t=2298 External links Category:1943 births Category:University of Oxford faculty Category:Mathematicians from Northern Ireland Category:Philosophers from Northern Ireland Category:Christian apologists Category:Christian philosophers Category:University of Cambridge alumni