Has Science Buried God? | John Lennox at Arizona State University

Speakers:
John Lennox - Professor of Mathematics (Emeritus) at the University of Oxford

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[TheBackyardProfessor]

I can't help it, I really, really REALLY enjoy listening to Dr Lennox.

[stevenwiederholt]

what A Man He Is! The world is a better place with John Lennox in it.

[courtneysalmon]

Mr. Lennox, all I can say in response to your lecture is; THANK YOU:-)

[bestwebsitesolutions]

My son and grandson went to this talk that John gave at ASU. It was packed and very fun to share with family. My grandson had a question that John answered near the end. It was the one that asked how do we reach his age group.

[uditkuldeep]

Brilliant man.
Grand salute from India.
learning a lot of arguments for God from him.

[alexjoseph]

Amen!! Science points towards God! Praise God!

[vonbeark]

There is amazing beauty in how this triggers non-believers.

[setuesetue]

the boiling water parts really got me...

[paulm]

Thank you for this wonderful lecture, I learn so very much from listening to these important interpretations. Something about John
I am drawn to, a great speaker.
I like to say that "science can be wonderfully applied in an attempt to figure out how God has created all things"

[newygreek]

When it comes to the God of Origins or the god of operations(god of the gaps), NO Christian believes that lightening happens because God caused it. Anytime you explain operation in science, it has a naturalistic explanation. However, if  you discuss origins, (origin of life, space, time, matter, laws etc) we explain the origins of these metaphysical operations as created by God. 

Before you choose to deny Jesus/God, understand what it is that you are rejecting first.

[OnlyScienceRules]

We have buried thousands of them. There’s only one left to go.

Science rules all. This fact will always remain.

[july]

I like Lennox a lot, but I'm not happy that he used the misleading and PC "three Abrahamic religions". Whoever sent Jesus didn't also send Mohamed, and they are not the same God.

[zulkufliaziz]

Science only doing 2 things:
1. Doing the research about things that already been created by God. Example: Science did not created the sun, but science only doing the research everything about the sun like how far it's from earth, how hot it was, whether it has axis, what are the purposes of its light, etc etc.
2. Doing the exploitation with the sources that already been created by God. Example: Science created satelites and later they invented Internet. But science use the materials that created by God like steel and other metals to build the satelites. For TV transmission and Internet, science use the wave that already been created by God.
Still, science cannot understand the metaphysic world. Science just making people understand how things works. Sure, science is good for mankind, but still we have to believe 'the super power' who created the world including created human, animal, plant, planet, wind, oxygen (for us to breathe) and even all the scientists themselve (which are human) are also created by God.

[terrylm]

In the beginning was the Word...
In the  beginning there was nothing as God created everything out of nothing.
If by thing we mean any concept or created animate or inanimate object,
then God is nothing, no thing, then there was nothing in the beginning, since He is pure Spirit.
The evidence for the Resurrection is watertight.

[mickymillersson]

Can't go yet - one hour. God and Genesis. I've read it . Where does the "us" and "our" come into the story of ONE God?

[mickymillersson]

19 mins in. Back to the atheism is a religion lie. It's not my original come back to that but, non-stamp collecting is not a hobby. If Lennox can state it is using logic I would love to hear it. I can state that I am passionate about arguing with people who try to convince me that their belief in any form of the supernatural is true. But that's not my religion. I belong to a political party and support its aims, it's not a religion or a belief it's the outcome of my life experiences and my study of society and politics etc.

[mickymillersson]

Newton lived at a time when Christianity was the norm in the western world. He was therefore a Christian. Newton, as I understand it, was attempting to discover how nature worked, and he did accept that God did it. Newton also held the belief that the laws he discovered could change in an instant if God wished. That is not the way the vast majority of scientists would think today. Not sure on Lennox's view on that, maybe someone should ask him? I am not versed, yet, in the science of ancient China, I will be though. But Lennox seems to dismiss the ancient Chinese enquiringly mind as nought but fireworks, we'll see. And briefly, are not most Nobel prize winners Jewish, maybe Lennox counts that as belief in God, I will look into that too.

[darakhan]

Question, Can we have 2 God's, Can a God comes as human - *Jesus* later got killed or crucified by Jews. Who killed him not being prophet of the God but when he reveled or claimed he is either son of God or actual God. Bible changed a lot by different hand and evidence in the Bible suggest - Jesus was not a God just a messenger like any other prophets in Quran or Tora. I recommend all Christians to research read understand with evidence provided, blind faith take you to darkness.

[mickymillersson]

13 minutes in ""science is the only way to truth" Lennox appears not to agree with this. What then was Newton seeking if not truth. I would not think he was seeking how to perform magic. Although some would say he was, like his contemporaries, into alchemy. New was seeking what was the truth in nature, is that not what we ask when we ask how? He believed it was god's truth he sought but truth nevertheless. Newton did not settle for "that's the way it is" as an answer, no, he sought the truth. Carry on Mr Lennox

[laeequenadvi]

The universe needs a creator. Almighty Allah is the Originator of the universe and great law ( laws of physics) giver.