John Lennox: God is not dead and science shows why

for more debates updates and bonus content sign up at the big conversation dot show I approach this in two ways the first one is your comment that secularism is collapsing and one can analyze the defects of atheism words do in the millions of people that died in the last century but coming over to the other side what you're saying Justin you see I am a scientist and one of the fascinating things is that science is a direct legacy of the judeo-christian tradition you were saying we're all scientists now and all this is no it is not and let's start absolutely basic in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth Hebrew Bible written millennia ago knew there was a beginning it was in the early 60s before scientists caught off of that and the Bible was right and Dawkins said well there was a 50/50 chance when I debated heretic and I said at least the Bible got it right but more seriously than that you see the fact that I'm a mathematician and interested in science I just think about that the fact that mathematics can describe what goes on in the universe is a matter of huge wonder Einstein once said the only incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible and he saw the problem why does it work well it's not an incomprehensible thing if you start from the idea that there's an intelligent God who made us in His image and therefore we can do science and that's exactly what the early pioneers of modern science starting with Galileo and Kepler and Newton and so on and so forth they were all believers in God and therefore when I hear that kind of question I'm not remotely ashamed of being a scientist and a Christian because I want to argue Christianity gave me my subject and siestas put a brilliantly [Laughter] I'm glad you understood at them CS Lewis said men became scientific because the expected Lord nature and they expected law nature because they believed a little lawgiver and I think we're getting to the stage now where serious atheist thinkers are beginning to reexamine the kind of naturalism that produces everything to physics and chemistry and one of them lives in New York his name is Thomas Nagel and he's a brilliant philosopher and he says something's going wrong because if everything is reducible to physics and chemistry then so is your mind but then why would you trust your mind in other words atheism taken to its logical conclusion undermines the very rationality you need to trust to do science and I'm not in for accepting a worldview that undermines the foundations of any kind of argument or discussion whatsoever so I think that in the 21st century we can push back on that very naive notion that God's art we do science now no science actually brings God back in

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Keywords: unbelievable, justin brierley, premier christian radio, christianity, atheism, philosophy, faith, theology, God, apologetics, Jesus, debate, John lennox, Dave Rubin, science

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Length: 4min 8sec (248 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 17 2019