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Furthermore, there are weighty voices within science that are not as enthusiastic about the multiverse. Prominent among them is that of Sir Roger Penrose, Hawking’s former collaborator, who shared wit...

John C. Lennox

Furthermore, there are weighty voices within science that are not as enthusiastic about the multiverse. Prominent among them is that of Sir Roger Penrose, Hawking’s former collaborator, who shared wit...

Both Genesis and science say that the universe is geared to supporting human life. But Genesis says more. It says that you, as a human being, bear the image of God. The starry heavens show the glory o...

John C. Lennox

Both Genesis and science say that the universe is geared to supporting human life. But Genesis says more. It says that you, as a human being, bear the image of God. The starry heavens show the glory o...

Tags: genesis, god, human life

About Author
John Carson Lennox (born 7 November 1943) is a mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist originally from Northern Ireland. He has written many books on religion, ethics, the relationship between science and God (like his books, Has Science Buried God and Can Science Explain Everything), and has had public debates with atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.
He retired from professorship where he specialised in group theory. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an Emeritus Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College, Oxford University, and has worked as adjunct lecturer at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University and at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School and a Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum.

There is a real conflict, but it is not science versus religion. It is theism versus atheism, and there are scientists on both sides.

John C. Lennox

There is a real conflict, but it is not science versus religion. It is theism versus atheism, and there are scientists on both sides.

Just because a religion has supported science does not prove that the religion is true. Quite so – and the same can, of course, be said of atheism.

John C. Lennox

Just because a religion has supported science does not prove that the religion is true. Quite so – and the same can, of course, be said of atheism.

I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama. Our involvement is too intimate… We are truly meant...

John C. Lennox

I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama. Our involvement is too intimate… We are truly meant...

I am not postulating a God of the gaps, a god merely to explain the things that science has not yet explained. I am postulating a God to explain why science explains; I do not deny that science explai...

John C. Lennox

I am not postulating a God of the gaps, a god merely to explain the things that science has not yet explained. I am postulating a God to explain why science explains; I do not deny that science explai...

The ancient world knew as well as we do the law of nature that dead bodies do not get up out of graves. Christianity won its way by dint of the sheer weight of evidence that one man had actually risen...

John C. Lennox

The ancient world knew as well as we do the law of nature that dead bodies do not get up out of graves. Christianity won its way by dint of the sheer weight of evidence that one man had actually risen...

In this very brief history of modern cosmological physics, the laws of quantum and relativistic physics represent things to be wondered at but widely accepted: just like biblical miracles. M-theory in...

John C. Lennox

In this very brief history of modern cosmological physics, the laws of quantum and relativistic physics represent things to be wondered at but widely accepted: just like biblical miracles. M-theory in...

The very success of science in showing us how deeply ordered the natural world is provides strong grounds for believing that there is an even deeper cause for that order.

John C. Lennox

The very success of science in showing us how deeply ordered the natural world is provides strong grounds for believing that there is an even deeper cause for that order.

The teaching of morality likewise lies outside science. Science can tell you that, if you add strychnine to someone’s drink, it will kill them. But science cannot tell you whether it is morally right...

John C. Lennox

The teaching of morality likewise lies outside science. Science can tell you that, if you add strychnine to someone’s drink, it will kill them. But science cannot tell you whether it is morally right...

Modern bilim, ortaçağda Tanrı'nın rasyonelliği konusundaki ısrarın neticesinde ortaya çıkmıştır.

John C. Lennox

Modern bilim, ortaçağda Tanrı'nın rasyonelliği konusundaki ısrarın neticesinde ortaya çıkmıştır.

The very success of science in showing us how deeply ordered the natural world is provides strong grounds for believing that there is an even deeper cause for that order.’ Swinburne is using inference...

John C. Lennox

The very success of science in showing us how deeply ordered the natural world is provides strong grounds for believing that there is an even deeper cause for that order.’ Swinburne is using inference...

Der wesentliche Punkt ist hier, dass Menschen mit szientistischem Gedankengut wie Atkins oder Dawkins nicht unterscheiden zwischen Mechanismus und Urheberschaft.

John C. Lennox

Der wesentliche Punkt ist hier, dass Menschen mit szientistischem Gedankengut wie Atkins oder Dawkins nicht unterscheiden zwischen Mechanismus und Urheberschaft.

Tags: creation, creationism, dawkins, religion, science, scientism

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics’ and that the ‘human mind is a work of God and one of the most excellent’.

John C. Lennox

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics’ and that the ‘human mind is a work of God and one of the most excellent’.

When we see some examples of a mechanism… do we doubt that it is the creation of a conscious intelligence? So when we see the movement of the heavenly bodies… how can we doubt that these too are not o...

John C. Lennox

When we see some examples of a mechanism… do we doubt that it is the creation of a conscious intelligence? So when we see the movement of the heavenly bodies… how can we doubt that these too are not o...

Society tolerates the practice of the Christian faith in private devotions and in church services, but it increasingly deprecates public witness.

John C. Lennox

Society tolerates the practice of the Christian faith in private devotions and in church services, but it increasingly deprecates public witness.

Czeslaw Milosz, who had reason to know, writes: A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death — the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders, we ar...

John C. Lennox

Czeslaw Milosz, who had reason to know, writes: A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death — the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders, we ar...

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’?

John C. Lennox

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’?

One should always be careful to record all the evidence against one’s theories; indeed, one should bend over backwards to consider it, since the easiest person to fool is oneself.

John C. Lennox

One should always be careful to record all the evidence against one’s theories; indeed, one should bend over backwards to consider it, since the easiest person to fool is oneself.

Of course, I reject atheism because I believe Christianity to be true. But I also reject it because I am a scientist. How could I be impressed with a worldview that undermines the very rationality we...

John C. Lennox

Of course, I reject atheism because I believe Christianity to be true. But I also reject it because I am a scientist. How could I be impressed with a worldview that undermines the very rationality we...

Tags: christianity, science