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John Lennox

Northern Irish mathematician and philosopher of science (b. 1943)

John Carson Lennox (born 7 November 1943) is a British professor emeritus of mathematics, author, philosopher of science, and Christian apologist.

John Lennox, 2015

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  • 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'?
  • 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.
  • 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 atheist talk about faith, depricating it.I want to tell you that scientist 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 scientist required faith.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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