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.
@@maryfrancis2494 I love how people make one liner criticisms without any facts or data to back up their claims. Why is no one interviewing you and 150K people watching? I think this fact speaks for itself.
More like a very misguided mind! He says that science cannot tell us about before the big bang, but the belief in a God tells us absolutely nothing about it! Nor can it ever.
I studied Theoretical Physics in the university. Still do, it's inevitably a never ending enterprise. His arguments are BRILLIANT. Typical of Mathematicians. May I/we keep such a lucid, intelligent, rational mind as the years go by, as he so easily shows.
Why then are there so many atheist scientists? Why are scientists on the whole becoming less religious? Elite scientists are one of the least religious groups on earth.
@@shankz8854 - "... _many_ atheist scientists …"? Perhaps you should ask why there are _so many_ atheist human beings and also so many believers in false religions. It would seem that our first ancestors, Adam and Eve rejected God and lost the Spirit of Gᴏᴅ, and thus you and I and the scientists and all of humanity are fumbling around in the dark trying to find "truth" which comes only from the Spirit of Gᴏᴅ. Sure we can collect lots of evidences but our interpretations of those evidences will always be skewed unless we apply the revealed truths of Gᴏᴅ written in His Word to them. _"Why then are there so many atheist scientists?"_ Because our oldest ancestor rejected truth and believed a lie and that rejection of truth is a character trait passed on to all of us. Like father, like son(s). Hadn't you heard?
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 !
@@maryfrancis2494 - A piece of paper on the wall does not make someone a scientist. Anyone who does science is a scientist. I think maybe you don't even know what "science" is.
“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
@@therick363 Reality is more than material. Something that does not have material substance is not disqualified from existence. Scientism is not logical.
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...
@@colinmatts Dr. Lawrence Krauss argues that nothing made the universe. Dr. Stephen Hawking said that the universe will create itself out of nothing. are you sure you know what people are claiming?
@@colinmatts It's literally big bang theory....oddly, an atheist choose option 2 and created steady state theory because he basically if the catholics can make matter out of nothing, so can I, but all over the place. I love people who don't know science history.
Bless you John Lennox... Bless the availability of this technology which makes you known to us. Our lives are truly enriched because of our Lord and you. I'm so thankful to experience your wisdom and your understanding. The perspective you bring is genuinely a true inspiration.
There is no "Evidence" for any gods from scientific perspective. No evidence for materialism either, of course. But in science, disproving A doesn't automatically prove B or C. The only honest answer to the question "Where did universe come from", at least for now, is "We don't know".
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@@missk1697 of course no evidence ... science does not give u the truth or certainty. the question about the god is metaphysical question :means : Science cannot answer .
I was taught in grade school that spontaneous generation of life from non-life is impossible. I will add that getting something from nothing is equally impossible. There must be a motivating, designing force to bring these things to pass.
And yet here we are! Certainly when the earth was a hot molten mess there was no life and just 4 billion years later we had dinosaurs roaming all parts of the earth, with no man in sight. Somewhere along the way life was spawned from non-life. After that life progressed as described by Darwin and Dawkins. As Hawkins said, no need for mythological figures.
Then you were misinformed in grade school. It just has a low probability; however, when you are dealing with time spans of hundreds of millions of years, low probability events happen. For example consider a disease that one in a million people will develop in their lifetime; so most doctors will never see a case in their career. With a human population of 8 billion there will be ~100 cases a year.
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.
_"Seek ye the Lᴏʀᴅ while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lᴏʀᴅ, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lᴏʀᴅ._ *For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.* _For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands."_ Isaiah 55.6 - 12 (KJV) (Emphasis added.)
God is OUTSIDE the universe. The universe is HIS creation. Until He had the idea, the universe did not exist. It was formless and void until He spoke a sound, a vibration, and set into motion all that came afterward. If He imagined a boundless universe, then it is boundless. An infinite within and infinitely greater infinite. And being eternal, then when would the universe have begun on His "time scale" since He is outside of time? We are made in His image . . . we are an idea, His idea, and being in His image, we are then also eternal. We existed before we were born. We will exist after our "time" in this temporal illusion. His Kingdom is not of this world. It is not of the temporal, but of the eternal.
*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: reasons.org/explore/blogs/tag/fine-tuning/page/2 reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/rtb-design-compendium-2009 *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" . Check:reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/probability-for-life-on-earth 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_
1. Every design has a designer .............................how do you demonstrate that the universe is a design? 2. The universe has high- complex design...........it's far from establishes that the universe is designed, complexitx is not the hallmark of design and we know that a lot of the coplex strcturs in nature are due to very simple the descriptive laws of nature. 3. Therefore, the universe has a designer...........No. Your so called argument is garbage.
Thank you 🙏 Lord for fine tuning brother John Lennox to coexist simultaneously as a Christian, scientist, mathematician, an author ✍️ and a well spoken gentleman we can all learn from! Amen 🙏 0:02
This is perhaps the best channel I have stumbled across. I wasn't looking for anything in particular but I know many scientists by reputation and by getting into apologetics. Man needs God, it's not the other way around.
God bless John Lennox and great men like him, for explaing to us humans that we need to stop trying to spread false lies and realize the truth and stop thinking everything is simple and can be explained. God bless us all ✝✝✝✝
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
The term "Big Bang" wasn't coined by those who believe the universe had a beginning. It was first used by Fred Hoyle, who believed in the so-called "steady state" universe. He used the term in 1949, saying it was not used in a perjorative sense, although it does seem a bit perjorative on the face of it. In any case, the originators of the theory did not call it an explosion, and they didn't say there was an actual bang.
So logical. Thank you for sharing and thank you to John Lennox for his logical reasoning. Of course there is a God. Romans 1:20-21 say it very directly: For his invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable. 21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God nor did they thank him, but they became empty-headed in their reasonings and their senseless hearts became darkened.
Thank you for the video. God created the universe and saw it was good. He set laws for it to sustain efficiently. Nature and the animal kingdom obeys it but some men too prideful, has in general refused to acknowledge Him and His majestic creation, has created a mess and now finding ways trying to diminish His existence and explaining things that are so complicated that sometimes make no sense! The way forward is good stewardship towards what God has given us in His creation. Make sure we discover the science and engineering behind to put our stewardship to good use and according to what God has intended it to be! May God be the glory!
I adore John Lennox, I’d love to have lunch with him so we could have a deeply interesting conversation. We just so happen to live in the same city, maybe one day I will be blessed by bumping into him 🥰
Great video on many levels - particularly on fine tuning and the reality that there is something rather than nothing...and I say this as a "relatively" (since ancient means thousands not millions ordinarily) young earth creationist who, unlike John Lennox, holds to an universe/earth of around 6-8000 yrs old & who sees Big Bang Theory historically as largely an effort to justify cosmic evolution and "creation" (in a wholly different order than presented in Genesis) without a Creator.
No. not even close. Gods and other imaginary beings to which faith based cult members like to appeal to have no place in science. Superstition ans belief in magic provide no insight whatsoever into nature.
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.
By General Observation, Either, What We Humans Call Universal Nature, Or It's Supernatural Authorship, Is Intelligent Enough To Generate Replicant Sentient Life.
Thank you, professor Lennox, for all the blessing clarities you've made in debates with the atheists with regard to the existence of God. I really enjoy listening to you. I may be a poor student of one of your students, I'm almost 70 years old now, but still I do not see a value in any of such debates. I mean obviously any attempt to convince the atheists to have faith in God the Creator would seemingly be impossible and perhaps such a debate would likely push them further away. I wonder if the spirit of Satan is behind each and everyone of those atheists starting from Charles Darwin. I need to write "this point" again and again. The atheists are obsessed with finding "evidences" when searching for the existence of God the Creator of all things. And I wholeheartedly agree with their rational obsession. For the time being, however, I see no possible way, or argument, to convince any of them of God's existence. I see that they'd go very deep in their atheistic explanation in any of the debate, and I hardly understand their profound findings. So profound that at some point I see instead that it is quite shallow. For example they see all the intelligent designs in all things all around but that still don't convince them. In the Bible God said any of His spoken words cannot and will not return to Him void. During the creation of this earth He said "let there be light" and in a second, seemingly, the huge bright sun appeared in the sky. What else did God say that we must heed? His spoken words said this; Christ will return to earth in due time that at those glorious moments "all eyes" will witness His glory. And voila! All atheists eyes will witness the shocking moments and they will immediately and fearfully feel shame. He further said many will run to the mountains and shout to the rocks to fall upon them so that they can be hidden from God's Mighty Face. They cannot bear the immense fear in their hearts at those moments. His spoken words will definitely come to pass. This message should be an eye opener to all atheists out there. This is God's unbroken promise among all other promises. One of His promises to mankind, some 2 thousand years ago, was that He will gather the Jews from all corners of the earth back to their homeland. Israel was erased from the world map for more than 2 thousand years. And now we witness this truth and the Jews are back in their homeland with wonderous and blessed strength in self defense. This message is intended chiefly for all the atheists out there. Hell and Heaven are two different worlds. God bless you professor Lennox and family and God bless all who read and heed the warnings of His Second Coming. ...
One does not have enough faith to believe it all started by random accident and chaos and we are here today because of all these millions of random perfect accidents. Youd be crazy to believe that
Krauss's idea that non-existent gravity created gravity which in turn created the matter which created gravity which then went on to create the billions of galaxies is absurd? If it wasn't for such a large percentage of researchers who give their own atheistic beliefs much , much more merit then it deserves , people like Krauss and many others would be critically critiqued right out of a job.
Only just discovered this wonderful man, very intelligent but humble at the same time. Little me, who is nowhere near this man's brain, has been thinking from the time that I could really think that something doesn't come from nothing despite all the scientific spill. Guess that's God giving to all who love Him including brilliant John and little me.
Utter nonsense. Things are in the wrong order right from the start - Genesis clearly states the heavens and the earth were created _before_ light. This is totally wrong.
@LoneWolfATTACK yeah light in the solar system preceded the earths formation. So this is wrong. Also, which scientists say the earths surface was nearly 100% water? Citation needed. This is not at all close to how the earth actually formed.
@@shankz8854 The first Genesis chapter is an account of the recreation of the heavens(skies) and the earth not the Universe. People are just unable to distinguish between the atmospheric, astral and angelic heavens that the Bible uses interchangeably.
@LoneWolfATTACK Light is before all things brother. Genesis 1 is a remaking of the planet not the creation of the planet and definitely not the universe. Everything that exists as matter is a manifestation of the infinite forms of light.
You will never be able to understand it fully. Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has even put eternity in their heart; yet mankind will never find out the work that the true God has made from start to finish.
Lennox, so the universe is fine tuned is it? Does that include, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanos, radiation, cosmic rays, solar flares, asteroid strikes? Please do tell?
I understand you disagree with Lennox, but this is a wrong argument: indeed our fine-tuned universe includes earthquakes etc..'Fine-tuned' doesn't mean perfect and without disasters.
Steven Hawkings was supposed to die at age 22 (or there about) but he died at age 76. Who kept him alive? His own will? His own mind? His brilliance? It was God that kept him alive; praise God in all things GREAT and small; glory to God on high; amen and amen
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)
Existence is impossible without something eternal in the equation but we can certainly agree we exist, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to have this conversation. To my mind this proves the existence of an eternal God who brought all things into existence.
The big Bang was just the start of the presentation of the universe as we see it today. Before the expansion started the singularity existed and if john knows when the singularity came into existence by all means John, let us know. Also John, could you let us know if the laws of physics and this so-called law of cause-and-effect were even in effect before time and space began? You talk as if you do know the answer to these questions, so lets have it?
Unfortunately, we know that when the brain dies the person's consciousness dies too. So there is no possibility of an afterlife or reuniting with our loved ones. It's not a happy ending I know, but it's the truth.
he is a mathematician, not a scientist, and knows very little of science. As a mathematician, he does know about probability and he knows that all of the arguments for god based on probability are wrong. Does he come out and say so? Of course not. He is not interested in the truth.
One of my favourite passages! God wanted to see what man would call the animals. Beautiful! “And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.“ Genesis 2:19
Can the theory of origin of life specify all the gradual steps per year from atoms to a cell to simple species that can reproduce itself? This should be done precisely without saying it happened over millions of years.
Science has been working at this for the blink of an eye of human existence, why on earth would you think it would have all the answers now, or in that detail. Stupid religions have answered nothing and just confuse weak and feeble minded with childish fairy tales. Science has vast libraries that support what we've learned, you have one silly book that is evidence of nothing!
John Lennox has a sharp mind & his book Gunning for God (Why the new Atheists are missing the target) is a brilliant analysis of the weaknesses of their arguements & worlview . I still have questions however about his book 7 Days that divide the World which attempts to reconcile evolutionary ideas with the idea of a long-aged earth. His arguments for this & his attempts to reconcile the Genisis account with a frame work idea rather than a consecutive timeline of events 9(i..e 7 24 hr days) seem quite contrived to make it fit. Also he does not discuss the notion that the universe rather than be created by a Creator, has always existed either as matter or energy & is constantly changing over time from one form to another.
I haven't yet read his book, but it is on my very long list of things to read. However, I am slightly put off by your comment "is a brilliant analysis of the weaknesses of their arguments & worldview .". If this is what the book is about, then it must surely be an analysis of a strawman. But it also points to the fact that he simply does not know what an atheist is. An atheist is simply a person who doesn't have a god in their lives because they see no robust evidence for the existence of any god. That's it. Pure and simple. And most atheists have no interest at all in "Gunning for God". Of course they "Miss the target". To an atheist there is no target to aim for.Beyond that any atheists can have hugely different views about any number of topics. Many don't even have any interest in origins of the universe, evolution, or anything scientific at all. Many other atheists are devout followers of other religions and world/spiritual views such as Buddhism, Jainism Shinto, Paganism, wiccan Hinduism and many beliefs of the varied indigenous native cultures around the world . Does John cover these as well in his analysis? I cannot see how he could possibly do this in a mere 250 pages. For a book this short, he must be aiming at perceived arguments & worldview that almost no atheist has. Hence the strawman comment above,
The big bang is the earliest known event in the universe history. However, that doesn't imply perse that it was also the absolute beginning of the universe.
Indeed, it seems to me what is now called the universe...this expanding existence of matter/energy somehow enmeshed in time/space is just one arrangement or manifestation of the natural world.
Why do we think the universe is fine tuned to make our nature and us possible? It could well be that nature is fine tuned to fit this universe and if our planet was hotter or colder or in other ways different, nature would be different accordingly.
More specifically, the _fine-tuning_ argument, or the _cosmological fine-tuning problem_ within the Big Bang model of the universe relates to the dependence of just the right amount of matter (or density) in its initial state before the beginning of the universe began. Too much and due to the laws of physics and the theory of general relativity the universe would rip apart. Too little and it would collapse back in on itself and implode. The current density of the universe is very close to the critical value required for a flat universe (our universe) if these pre-existing conditions were met before the Big Bang and "cosmic inflation". Any departure of the total density from the critical value required in the beginning would increase rapidly over cosmic time, the early universe must have had a density even closer to the critical density. Departing from it by one part in 10^62 (10 with 62 zeros) or less would lead to either a "big rip" or a "big crunch". This led cosmologists to question how the initial density came to be so closely fine-tuned to this 'special' value required for the universe to achieve equilibrium or balance. Problems with the Big Bang Theory: 1. It violates the first law of thermodynamics, which says you can't create or destroy matter or energy. 2. The early inflationary period of the Big Bang appears to violate the rule that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. 3. The formation of stars and galaxies violates the law of entropy, which suggests systems of change become less organised over time. But if you view the early universe as completely homogeneous and isotropic, then the current universe shows signs of obeying the law of entropy. 4. Then there is the "horizon problem" with the CMB (the cosmic microwave background). The CMB (or the cosmic microwave background, the remnant electromagnetic radiation from the beginning of the universe) should not be uniform in density or temperature given it's beginning and the laws applicable to the general theory of relativity. "The Horizon Problem" in cosmology says, essentially, that regions on opposite sides of the observable universe are in thermal equilibrium and have the same density even though they are so far apart that due to the limited speed of light, they could not have ever been in contact. This uniformity in temperature and density is physically impossible. This defies the laws contained within the general theory of relativity and is scientifically irreconcilable.
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.
He has some great points. Just ignore the evolutionist propaganda. That is a huge part of the decline of the church.
Why ?
He mostly doesn't know what he's talking about.
@@maryfrancis2494 perhaps you dont know what your talking about budd?
@@maryfrancis2494 You Have Clue What Talking You Must Be Catholic They Don,t Tell Truth
@@maryfrancis2494 I love how people make one liner criticisms without any facts or data to back up their claims. Why is no one interviewing you and 150K people watching? I think this fact speaks for itself.
One of Northern Ireland’s greatest thinkers, scientists, mathematician & Christian’s. Brilliant mind.
May John Lennox continue to keep his brilliant mind.
More like a very misguided mind! He says that science cannot tell us about before the big bang, but the belief in a God tells us absolutely nothing about it! Nor can it ever.
I studied Theoretical Physics in the university. Still do, it's inevitably a never ending enterprise.
His arguments are BRILLIANT. Typical of Mathematicians.
May I/we keep such a lucid, intelligent, rational mind as the years go by, as he so easily shows.
It does no harm
Science continues to point to a creator
And it always will
Why then are there so many atheist scientists? Why are scientists on the whole becoming less religious? Elite scientists are one of the least religious groups on earth.
@@shankz8854 that's not true at all. elite scientist are all religious. why are you lying?
If you believe there is a “creator”, how would you expect the universe to look if there wasn’t a creator?
@@shankz8854 - "... _many_ atheist scientists …"? Perhaps you should ask why there are _so many_ atheist human beings and also so many believers in false religions. It would seem that our first ancestors, Adam and Eve rejected God and lost the Spirit of Gᴏᴅ, and thus you and I and the scientists and all of humanity are fumbling around in the dark trying to find "truth" which comes only from the Spirit of Gᴏᴅ. Sure we can collect lots of evidences but our interpretations of those evidences will always be skewed unless we apply the revealed truths of Gᴏᴅ written in His Word to them.
_"Why then are there so many atheist scientists?"_
Because our oldest ancestor rejected truth and believed a lie and that rejection of truth is a character trait passed on to all of us. Like father, like son(s). Hadn't you heard?
I could listen to John Lennox all day
I’ve listened to this video over and over again. John is great source of knowledge. He is so precise in his thoughts. ❤
A very charming man with bright countenance and profound intelligence! Love the way he argues!
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 !
He's a mathematician, not a scientist. As for befuddling the masses, he's doing a very good job at that as well.
@@victoriageraci😂 yes, but what is says is just garbage.
I missed him so much! God bless you Sir !
Love your teachings Dr Lennox , God bless you and your family and her friends and your ministry
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We love you John Lennox! God bless you!
Thank God for Christian scientists like Professor Lrnnox🙏
Surprise !
Hes not a scientist, never was.
He does math, he's out of his league.
@@maryfrancis2494 Noone worth his salt disputes the fact that Dr. Lennox is a scientist. Besides, science is not the only way to truth.
@@maryfrancis2494 Not only is mathematics a science, but mathematics is the perfect science, superior to all others.
@@sonnypruitt6639 And yet he has views that cannot be proven by any known mathematics.
@@maryfrancis2494 - A piece of paper on the wall does not make someone a scientist. Anyone who does science is a scientist. I think maybe you don't even know what "science" is.
Appreciate John Lennox so much!
Me too Michael. I really hope that he lives and teaches for a few more years to come.
“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
Doesn't equal truth of reality.
@@therick363 Did he say it did?
@@therick363 Reality is more than material. Something that does not have material substance is not disqualified from existence. Scientism is not logical.
I love this quote!
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...
You're strawmaning the position of non belief in a god. No one seriously makes an argument that "nothing creates nothing".
Number 2, is no good. All matter has age. There is no eternity of matter.
@@colinmatts you need to listen to this video again.
@@colinmatts Dr. Lawrence Krauss argues that nothing made the universe. Dr. Stephen Hawking said that the universe will create itself out of nothing. are you sure you know what people are claiming?
@@colinmatts It's literally big bang theory....oddly, an atheist choose option 2 and created steady state theory because he basically if the catholics can make matter out of nothing, so can I, but all over the place. I love people who don't know science history.
Thank God for Mr. Lennox! He has done an amazing job on defending God in a world of unbelief!
why do you think God needs defending?
Bless you John Lennox...
Bless the availability of this technology which makes you known to us.
Our lives are truly enriched because of our Lord and you. I'm so thankful to experience your wisdom and your understanding.
The perspective you bring is genuinely a true inspiration.
This is a beautiful video! Of course there is a God! There is so much evidece it is mind blowing.
There is no "Evidence" for any gods from scientific perspective. No evidence for materialism either, of course. But in science, disproving A doesn't automatically prove B or C.
The only honest answer to the question "Where did universe come from", at least for now, is "We don't know".
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If you remove the indefinite article from in front of "God" your statement will be perfect.
*Of course, there is Gᴏᴅ!*
What’s the best piece of evidence?
@@missk1697 of course no evidence ... science does not give u the truth or certainty. the question about the god is metaphysical question :means : Science cannot answer .
I was taught in grade school that spontaneous generation of life from non-life is impossible. I will add that getting something from nothing is equally impossible. There must be a motivating, designing force to bring these things to pass.
And yet here we are! Certainly when the earth was a hot molten mess there was no life and just 4 billion years later we had dinosaurs roaming all parts of the earth, with no man in sight. Somewhere along the way life was spawned from non-life. After that life progressed as described by Darwin and Dawkins. As Hawkins said, no need for mythological figures.
Yes I would agree and the designing force is God our father in heaven and his words created heaven and earth
@@brud1729nonsense
There doesn't have to be anything unless you have evidence other than "I don't know so God" well, do you? Rhetorical as we both know you don't.
Then you were misinformed in grade school. It just has a low probability; however, when you are dealing with time spans of hundreds of millions of years, low probability events happen.
For example consider a disease that one in a million people will develop in their lifetime; so most doctors will never see a case in their career.
With a human population of 8 billion there will be ~100 cases a year.
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.
_"Seek ye the Lᴏʀᴅ while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lᴏʀᴅ, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lᴏʀᴅ._ *For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.* _For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands."_
Isaiah 55.6 - 12 (KJV) (Emphasis added.)
God is OUTSIDE the universe. The universe is HIS creation. Until He had the idea, the universe did not exist. It was formless and void until He spoke a sound, a vibration, and set into motion all that came afterward. If He imagined a boundless universe, then it is boundless. An infinite within and infinitely greater infinite. And being eternal, then when would the universe have begun on His "time scale" since He is outside of time?
We are made in His image . . . we are an idea, His idea, and being in His image, we are then also eternal. We existed before we were born. We will exist after our "time" in this temporal illusion. His Kingdom is not of this world. It is not of the temporal, but of the eternal.
Exactly right Leroy. Well said.
Absolutely!
Infinity applied to the non-spiritual, material world is unsubstantiated and absurd!
That’s what believers _think._ They can’t _know_ anymore than the rest of us.
He seemed to be the sweetest man ever and I love his biblical teachings
*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:
reasons.org/explore/blogs/tag/fine-tuning/page/2
reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/rtb-design-compendium-2009
*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" .
Check:reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/probability-for-life-on-earth
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_
Appreciate the time u took to write. Enjoyed
Thank you for that excellent content. If you are not a teacher, you should be one.
1. Every design has a designer .............................how do you demonstrate that the universe is a design?
2. The universe has high- complex design...........it's far from establishes that the universe is designed, complexitx is not the hallmark of design and we know that a lot of the coplex strcturs in nature are due to very simple the descriptive laws of nature.
3. Therefore, the universe has a designer...........No.
Your so called argument is garbage.
Thank you 🙏 Lord for fine tuning brother John Lennox to coexist simultaneously as a Christian, scientist, mathematician, an author ✍️ and a well spoken gentleman we can all learn from! Amen 🙏 0:02
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.
indeed Mr. Jackson.
that not what he said - God created it, not itself creating itself
Creating itself is absolute non-sense
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Only the blind don't want to see.
Anything other than a divine creator. I mean anything!
Love this guy. His humility is quite comforting.
John Lennox is just fantastic. He’s sharp, on-point and even cheerful too. Such an inspiration.
This is perhaps the best channel I have stumbled across. I wasn't looking for anything in particular but I know many scientists by reputation and by getting into apologetics. Man needs God, it's not the other way around.
God bless John Lennox and great men like him, for explaing to us humans that we need to stop trying to spread false lies and realize the truth and stop thinking everything is simple and can be explained. God bless us all ✝✝✝✝
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
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I have listened to him many times. Has convinced me of nothing except he should stick to teaching in his field.
A brilliant human being is John Lennox
Impressive logical points 👍
The term "Big Bang" wasn't coined by those who believe the universe had a beginning. It was first used by Fred Hoyle, who believed in the so-called "steady state" universe. He used the term in 1949, saying it was not used in a perjorative sense, although it does seem a bit perjorative on the face of it. In any case, the originators of the theory did not call it an explosion, and they didn't say there was an actual bang.
Such an interesting talk and something which should be shouted all round the world to make us ALL wake up !
If it's ok to have a creator without a creator then it's also ok to have a universe without a creator
So logical. Thank you for sharing and thank you to John Lennox for his logical reasoning. Of course there is a God. Romans 1:20-21 say it very directly: For his invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable. 21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God nor did they thank him, but they became empty-headed in their reasonings and their senseless hearts became darkened.
Amen 🙏
AMEN !
Bravo Mr.Lennox
Thank you for the video.
God created the universe and saw it was good. He set laws for it to sustain efficiently. Nature and the animal kingdom obeys it but some men too prideful, has in general refused to acknowledge Him and His majestic creation, has created a mess and now finding ways trying to diminish His existence and explaining things that are so complicated that sometimes make no sense!
The way forward is good stewardship towards what God has given us in His creation. Make sure we discover the science and engineering behind to put our stewardship to good use and according to what God has intended it to be!
May God be the glory!
The Genesis version of the beginning and The Big Bang Theory are a little different, Dear Professor Lennox.
I adore John Lennox, I’d love to have lunch with him so we could have a deeply interesting conversation. We just so happen to live in the same city, maybe one day I will be blessed by bumping into him 🥰
My favorite apologist 🙏🏼✝️😇
Great video on many levels - particularly on fine tuning and the reality that there is something rather than nothing...and I say this as a "relatively" (since ancient means thousands not millions ordinarily) young earth creationist who, unlike John Lennox, holds to an universe/earth of around 6-8000 yrs old & who sees Big Bang Theory historically as largely an effort to justify cosmic evolution and "creation" (in a wholly different order than presented in Genesis) without a Creator.
All science is God revealing Himself.
No. not even close. Gods and other imaginary beings to which faith based cult members like to appeal to have no place in science. Superstition ans belief in magic provide no insight whatsoever into nature.
Excellent video! John Lennox's passion for presenting the truth is inspiring!! Well done.
Underated channel
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.
Hawking didn't makes sense to me, but I thought I just didn't understand. Thank you sir.
Wisdom.
We Love John Lennox very much
You mean “you” love John Lennox very much.
God bless critical thinkers and scholars like Prof J Lennox he is an amazing man
critical thinker?
not even close to that@@santadeville242
Enjoyable and so informative. I'm glad I came across some of your videos!
What a brilliant man, may God continue to bless the words of his mouth!! Very good video!
I could listen to this man read the numbers from the stock exchange.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Only the blind don't want to see.
Prove there's a God and that he created anything!
John Lennox is very comforting.
His books bring a lot of hope to people.
And I'm sure his income is very secure indeed.
Looks like John has lost some weight. Always love listening to him.
Yes he did lose some weight, with God's help..
In My Opinion, The Best Argument For Intelligent Design Lay In The Formal And Foundational Definitions Of Intelligence And Design.
By General Observation, Either, What We Humans Call Universal Nature, Or It's Supernatural Authorship, Is Intelligent Enough To Generate Replicant Sentient Life.
Thank you, professor Lennox, for all the blessing clarities you've made in debates with the atheists with regard to the existence of God. I really enjoy listening to you. I may be a poor student of one of your students, I'm almost 70 years old now, but still I do not see a value in any of such debates. I mean obviously any attempt to convince the atheists to have faith in God the Creator would seemingly be impossible and perhaps such a debate would likely push them further away. I wonder if the spirit of Satan is behind each and everyone of those atheists starting from Charles Darwin.
I need to write "this point" again and again. The atheists are obsessed with finding "evidences" when searching for the existence of God the Creator of all things. And I wholeheartedly agree with their rational obsession. For the time being, however, I see no possible way, or argument, to convince any of them of God's existence. I see that they'd go very deep in their atheistic explanation in any of the debate, and I hardly understand their profound findings. So profound that at some point I see instead that it is quite shallow. For example they see all the intelligent designs in all things all around but that still don't convince them.
In the Bible God said any of His spoken words cannot and will not return to Him void. During the creation of this earth He said "let there be light" and in a second, seemingly, the huge bright sun appeared in the sky. What else did God say that we must heed? His spoken words said this; Christ will return to earth in due time that at those glorious moments "all eyes" will witness His glory. And voila! All atheists eyes will witness the shocking moments and they will immediately and fearfully feel shame. He further said many will run to the mountains and shout to the rocks to fall upon them so that they can be hidden from God's Mighty Face. They cannot bear the immense fear in their hearts at those moments. His spoken words will definitely come to pass. This message should be an eye opener to all atheists out there. This is God's unbroken promise among all other promises. One of His promises to mankind, some 2 thousand years ago, was that He will gather the Jews from all corners of the earth back to their homeland. Israel was erased from the world map for more than 2 thousand years. And now we witness this truth and the Jews are back in their homeland with wonderous and blessed strength in self defense. This message is intended chiefly for all the atheists out there. Hell and Heaven are two different worlds.
God bless you professor Lennox and family and God bless all who read and heed the warnings of His Second Coming.
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One does not have enough faith to believe it all started by random accident and chaos and we are here today because of all these millions of random perfect accidents. Youd be crazy to believe that
Exactly, where does that gravitational law come from?
Krauss's idea that non-existent gravity created gravity which in turn created the matter which created gravity which
then went on to create the billions of galaxies is absurd? If it wasn't for such a large percentage of researchers who
give their own atheistic beliefs much , much more merit then it deserves , people like Krauss and many others would be
critically critiqued right out of a job.
Maybe you should start by actually readin his books instead of making things up abou it?! How about that?
Only just discovered this wonderful man, very intelligent but humble at the same time. Little me, who is nowhere near this man's brain, has been thinking from the time that I could really think that something doesn't come from nothing despite all the scientific spill. Guess that's God giving to all who love Him including brilliant John and little me.
I so very much APPRECIATE this man's clarity of the word....he explains simply and thoroughly. God IS CREATOR OF EVERYTHING ☝️💖😊
What a great explanation on his profession great man to listen to God bless him!
Such a gift that we all have such a brilliant man out there doing this all so we don’t have to
The Bible had the beginning all in the correct order. Written thousands of years ago proving God's creation.
Utter nonsense. Things are in the wrong order right from the start - Genesis clearly states the heavens and the earth were created _before_ light. This is totally wrong.
@LoneWolfATTACK yeah light in the solar system preceded the earths formation. So this is wrong. Also, which scientists say the earths surface was nearly 100% water? Citation needed. This is not at all close to how the earth actually formed.
No it doesn't have the correct order. It has light before the sun. That's even before it suggested that a species could begin with just two specimens
@@shankz8854 The first Genesis chapter is an account of the recreation of the heavens(skies) and the earth not the Universe. People are just unable to distinguish between the atmospheric, astral and angelic heavens that the Bible uses interchangeably.
@LoneWolfATTACK Light is before all things brother. Genesis 1 is a remaking of the planet not the creation of the planet and definitely not the universe. Everything that exists as matter is a manifestation of the infinite forms of light.
Science: The method of answering the question--How did God do it?
You will never be able to understand it fully. Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has even put eternity in their heart; yet mankind will never find out the work that the true God has made from start to finish.
I agree that science helps us understand God's creation. However, it can't prove nor disprove God.
He spoke the universe into existence, by The Word of God.
@@1969cmp Magic is not real buddy. Grow up.
Lennox, so the universe is fine tuned is it? Does that include, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanos, radiation, cosmic rays, solar flares, asteroid strikes? Please do tell?
I understand you disagree with Lennox, but this is a wrong argument: indeed our fine-tuned universe includes earthquakes etc..'Fine-tuned' doesn't mean perfect and without disasters.
Steven Hawkings was supposed to die at age 22 (or there about) but he died at age 76. Who kept him alive? His own will? His own mind? His brilliance? It was God that kept him alive; praise God in all things GREAT and small; glory to God on high; amen and amen
If god keeps people alive , does that mean he kills
Why was he supposed to die at 22?
I'm pretty sure that doctors keep him alive.
And I suppose it wasn't God who gave him ALS at 22?
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)
Science and religion going to war is like a table and a chair being compared.
Existence is impossible without something eternal in the equation but we can certainly agree we exist, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to have this conversation. To my mind this proves the existence of an eternal God who brought all things into existence.
The big Bang was just the start of the presentation of the universe as we see it today. Before the expansion started the singularity existed and if john knows when the singularity came into existence by all means John, let us know.
Also John, could you let us know if the laws of physics and this so-called law of cause-and-effect were even in effect before time and space began? You talk as if you do know the answer to these questions, so lets have it?
Thank you Mr. Lennox. God bless.
Unfortunately, we know that when the brain dies the person's consciousness dies too. So there is no possibility of an afterlife or reuniting with our loved ones. It's not a happy ending I know, but it's the truth.
Was atom created or not, please?
You are placing limits on our Creator. The Bible says God is so big that the clouds are the dust on His feet.
Man today's science needs more scientists like this man in a very bad way.
he is a mathematician, not a scientist, and knows very little of science. As a mathematician, he does know about probability and he knows that all of the arguments for god based on probability are wrong. Does he come out and say so? Of course not. He is not interested in the truth.
@@bjhcvuaerpigfy Why are they wrong?
One of my favourite passages! God wanted to see what man would call the animals. Beautiful! “And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.“ Genesis 2:19
Substanear ?
Yes ,there are things that are unknowable and one of them is creation. God of the gaps is alive and well.
Kardashev scale Type I is still beyond our reach with such logic...
God is in many ways beyond our comprehension the heavens declare his glory.
What a simple, yet eloquent way of laying out a sensible explanation, that is in harmony with the Holy Bible.
Joni Mitchell said in the sixties that we are carbon stardust etc
I would like to have a one on one conversation with this Lennox , I would shut him up very quickly.
I've always looked at science as being the on going discovery and understanding of God's creation. Simple!
The fine tuning of the universe is fascinating. And we have access to it. How does materialism/scientism deal with the inaccessible?
What fine tuning?
Enjoyed watching . . . thanks
Yes, imagine the "big bang" power that emanated from God's spoken Word, LET THERE BE LIGHT!
Le fameux argument ”ta gueule, c’est magique” des croyants ! Pathétique 😂😂😂
So god lit a firework and watched what happened? 🤣
I don't believe in a big bang I believe in LET THERE BE LIGHT!
So you believe in magic instead of emperical evidence. It's not the flex you think it is.
I've got moths in my house and weeds in my garden.
God is keeping me busy !
A great video on the truth of how we got here. I pray blessings and health over John and his family in Jesus name forevermore
Truth?
Excellent explanation and reasoning! Thanks for the arguments for Christianity! May God bless you.
Can the theory of origin of life specify all the gradual steps per year from atoms to a cell to simple species that can reproduce itself? This should be done precisely without saying it happened over millions of years.
Science has been working at this for the blink of an eye of human existence, why on earth would you think it would have all the answers now, or in that detail. Stupid religions have answered nothing and just confuse weak and feeble minded with childish fairy tales. Science has vast libraries that support what we've learned, you have one silly book that is evidence of nothing!
I like this guy
Does this mean that Santa Claus will stop bringing us Coca-Cola in plastic bottles?
Excellent content, do a low cut on the audio to eliminate the hum please.
John Lennox has a sharp mind & his book Gunning for God (Why the new Atheists are missing the target) is a brilliant analysis of the weaknesses of their arguements & worlview . I still have questions however about his book 7 Days that divide the World which attempts to reconcile evolutionary ideas with the idea of a long-aged earth. His arguments for this & his attempts to reconcile the Genisis account with a frame work idea rather than a consecutive timeline of events 9(i..e 7 24 hr days) seem quite contrived to make it fit. Also he does not discuss the notion that the universe rather than be created by a Creator, has always existed either as matter or energy & is constantly changing over time from one form to another.
I haven't yet read his book, but it is on my very long list of things to read. However, I am slightly put off by your comment "is a brilliant analysis of the weaknesses of their arguments & worldview .". If this is what the book is about, then it must surely be an analysis of a strawman. But it also points to the fact that he simply does not know what an atheist is. An atheist is simply a person who doesn't have a god in their lives because they see no robust evidence for the existence of any god. That's it. Pure and simple. And most atheists have no interest at all in "Gunning for God". Of course they "Miss the target". To an atheist there is no target to aim for.Beyond that any atheists can have hugely different views about any number of topics. Many don't even have any interest in origins of the universe, evolution, or anything scientific at all. Many other atheists are devout followers of other religions and world/spiritual views such as Buddhism, Jainism Shinto, Paganism, wiccan Hinduism and many beliefs of the varied indigenous native cultures around the world .
Does John cover these as well in his analysis? I cannot see how he could possibly do this in a mere 250 pages. For a book this short, he must be aiming at perceived arguments & worldview that almost no atheist has. Hence the strawman comment above,
The big bang is the earliest known event in the universe history. However, that doesn't imply perse that it was also the absolute beginning of the universe.
Indeed, it seems to me what is now called the universe...this expanding existence of matter/energy somehow enmeshed in time/space is just one arrangement or manifestation of the natural world.
Why do we think the universe is fine tuned to make our nature and us possible? It could well be that nature is fine tuned to fit this universe and if our planet was hotter or colder or in other ways different, nature would be different accordingly.
Love John Lennox in the Lord.
More specifically, the _fine-tuning_ argument, or the _cosmological fine-tuning problem_ within the Big Bang model of the universe relates to the dependence of just the right amount of matter (or density) in its initial state before the beginning of the universe began. Too much and due to the laws of physics and the theory of general relativity the universe would rip apart. Too little and it would collapse back in on itself and implode. The current density of the universe is very close to the critical value required for a flat universe (our universe) if these pre-existing conditions were met before the Big Bang and "cosmic inflation". Any departure of the total density from the critical value required in the beginning would increase rapidly over cosmic time, the early universe must have had a density even closer to the critical density. Departing from it by one part in 10^62 (10 with 62 zeros) or less would lead to either a "big rip" or a "big crunch". This led cosmologists to question how the initial density came to be so closely fine-tuned to this 'special' value required for the universe to achieve equilibrium or balance.
Problems with the Big Bang Theory: 1. It violates the first law of thermodynamics, which says you can't create or destroy matter or energy. 2. The early inflationary period of the Big Bang appears to violate the rule that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. 3. The formation of stars and galaxies violates the law of entropy, which suggests systems of change become less organised over time. But if you view the early universe as completely homogeneous and isotropic, then the current universe shows signs of obeying the law of entropy. 4. Then there is the "horizon problem" with the CMB (the cosmic microwave background).
The CMB (or the cosmic microwave background, the remnant electromagnetic radiation from the beginning of the universe) should not be uniform in density or temperature given it's beginning and the laws applicable to the general theory of relativity. "The Horizon Problem" in cosmology says, essentially, that regions on opposite sides of the observable universe are in thermal equilibrium and have the same density even though they are so far apart that due to the limited speed of light, they could not have ever been in contact. This uniformity in temperature and density is physically impossible. This defies the laws contained within the general theory of relativity and is scientifically irreconcilable.