John Lennox Discusses the Beginning of the Universe - Science Uprising Expert Interview

In this new bonus interview for the Science Uprising series, Oxford University mathematician John Lennox discusses whether the big bang theory disproves the need for God and several other provocative questions: Will science be able to unravel every mystery about the natural world? Does the universe need a creator? And does science point towards God?

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[robschade]

Science continues to point to a creator

[marcocortes]

God Bless John Lennox and his family. I know it must be hard since he is almost 80. May God bless him with great health and gives him many more years on Earth. I love listening to him explain things.

[jimborowy]

This is a beautiful video! Of course there is a God! There is so much evidece it is mind blowing.

[bjhcvuaerpigfy]

When Christians try to justify their beliefs with science they are acknowledging that science has by far the best track record for discovering the truth.
When Christians say something like "your belief in science is just a faith" they are using the word 'faith' as a pejorative term and therefore are acknowledging that 'faith' is a shitty way to come to the truth.
When science and religion go into battle, science always wins. Science always corrects religion. religion never corrects science. (When science is corrected, it is corrected by science, not by religion)

[leroybrown]

Statements by Hawking, et al, demonstrate the truth and accuracy of Is 55:9. Even the sharpest minds in humanity are reduced to mundane fools and blubbering idiots when they presume and pretend to comprehend the things of God.

Believers know, and have always known, these two fundamental truths: God alone is self-eternal and God alone is infinite. Applied anywhere else these terms are misnomers.

[dewbye]

“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”
― Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers

[damo]

Thank God for Christian scientists like Professor Lrnnox🙏

[MarieH]

May John Lennox continue to keep his brilliant mind.

[sonamoo]

A very charming man with bright countenance and profound intelligence! Love the way he argues!

[Atomic]

One of Northern Ireland’s greatest thinkers, scientists, mathematician & Christian’s. Brilliant mind.

[KenJackson_US]

No one has ever observed anything cause itself. So it's strictly a matter of *faith* to believe the universe caused itself to come into existence.

[mathew]

*An Overview of the Fine tuning argument*

For many, the regularity of the universe and the precision with which the universe exploded into being provides even more evidences for the existence of God. This evidence technically known as the Teleological argument, derives its name from the Greek word telos, which means "design." The Teleological argument goes like this:

1. Every design has a designer
2. The universe has high- complex design
3. Therefore, the universe has a designer


*The Anthropic Principle*

Scientists are finding the universe is like that watch ( anology of William Paley ), except even more precisely designed. These highly-precise and interdependent environmental conditions (called "anthropic constants") make up what is known as the "Anthropic Principle"-- a title for the mounting evidence that has many scientists believing the universe is extremely fine tuned (designed) to support human life on earth (Thats why some notorious atheists including Antony Flew later believed in God). Some Anthropic constants example include:

Oxygen level
• On earth, oxygen comprises 21 percent of the atmosphere
• That precise figure is an Anthropic constant that make life in earth possible.
• If oxygen were 25 percent fire would erept spontaneously
• If it were 15 percent, human beings would suffocate

Carbon dioxide level
• If the carbon dioxide level was higher than it is now, a runaway greenhouse effect would develop, and we would all burnt up
• If the level was lower than it is now, plants would not be able to maintain efficient photosynthesis, and we would all suffocate

For more evidence:



*What are the chances?*

It's not there just a few broadly defined constants that may have resulted by chance. There are more than 100 very narrowly defined constants that strongly point to an Intelligent Designer. Astrophysicist, Hugh Ross, calculated the probability these and other constants would exist for any planet in the universe by chance (i.e, without divine design). To meet all conditions, there is 1 chance in 10^1038 (one chance in one with 1038 zeroes after it)-- essentially 0% chance.
According to probability theory, odds of less than 1 in 10^50 equals " zero probability" .



It only proves that atheism is just a dogmatic belief. Nearly 2000 years ago, the apostle St Paul wrote in his letter to the Romans, *_" For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse"_*


_Important: The term “entropy” describes degree of thermodynamic “disorder” in a closed system like the universe. “Maximum entropy” would describe the “heat death” of the universe (which is the state it is slowly gravitating towards). Amazingly, our universe was at its “minimum entropy” at the very beginning, which begs the question “how did it get so orderly?” Looking just at the initial entropy conditions, what is the likelihood of a universe supportive of life coming into existence by coincidence? One in billions of billions? Or trillions of trillions of trillions? Or more?_

_Sir Roger Penrose, 2020 Nobel prize winner and a close friend of Stephen Hawking, wondered about this question and tried to calculate the probability of the initial entropy conditions of the Big Bang_

_According to Penrose, the odds against such an occurrence were on the order of 10 to the power of 10^123 to 1_

_It is hard even to imagine what this number means. In math, the value 10^123 means 1 followed by 123 zeros. (This is, by the way, more than the total number of atoms [10^79] believed to exist in the whole universe.) But Penrose's answer is vastly more than this: It requires 1 followed by 10^10^123 zeros_

_It’s important to recognize that we're not talking about a single unlikely event here. We’re talking about hitting the jackpot over and over again, nailing extremely unlikely, mutually complementary parameters of constants and quantities, far past the point where chance could account for it_

[jean-marclamothe]

Universe created himself from nothing?!?

Hum... interesting! It's a funny theory!

Explain it to me because at first glance it makes no sense!

[urso]

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Only the blind don't want to see.

[paddydiskin]

There is a man who knows his subject. He can explain it in language that anybody can understand and has no need to impress people outside his specialty with scientific jargon and try to befuddle the masses.
Bravo Prof. Lennox !

[mikebellamy]

There is a Big problem with the Big bang: *The origin of matter!*
Mass of universe = 1e80 protons = 1.67e53 Kg
Escape velocity = v = √(2GM/r) therefore r = 2GM/v2
Substitute M = 1.67e53 and v = 3e8 m/sec (speed of light)
The minimum diameter of the universe below which it will collapse into a black hole is
52.5 billion light years
Hence the matter in the universe could not be created in the early hot stage when the universe was small!
Also
Running the universe back in time is not the same for energy and matter as assumed in all these models!
Think of a candle burning (like star we see today) the ENERGY goes back to a very small point BUT
the MATTER does not! It gets bigger until it reaches a maximum mass and then STOPS.
Stars must by the second law do the same they can only go back to the point of maximum hydrogen and that is their minimum entropy state!

That means the real Big Bang was first an expansion of space and energy with no mass then the creation of stars in their lowest entropy state or maximum hydrogen fuel state. Which actually matches what the bible says God did in the opening chapter of Genesis!
Day 1 God said "let there be light" expansion of space and photon energy giving us the very smooth CMBR
Day 4 God said "he made the stars also" after the expansion by collapsing the wave energy into atoms of hydrogen
Since we know from Young's experiment a particle's history is written retrospectively back from the moment of measurement by the *MIND* that measured the wave so there is no problem with this occurring 6000 years ago. The history of the stars observed by Adam is real on the day they were made even though he was looking back billions of years it was instantly there for him to see.

[KerryPetersen]

The proper definition of nothing:

"What rocks dream about"

[ScotsThinker]

First!
We love you John Lennox! God bless you!

[isaiahben-yahweh]

This man is too funny, his intelligence makes his jokes that much funnier. How can you say "Now I give lectures about nothing." While still keeping a mostly straight face, ROFL

[Skriften]

Spot on! This is exactly the "starting point" I have used in certain confrontations. "Nothing creates nothing, Therefore something must have existed eternally". And when all factors are accounted for you will come to one conclusion: "1. An Intelligence Superior or 2. Everything has always existed". And from this the debate goes on...