Professor John Lennox: Q&A

The Question and Answer session following the talk "Will Science Ever Find God's Fingerprints?" at The University of Adelaide.
Talk: • Professor John Lennox:...
Talk run by North Terrace Evangelical students.
Recorded on the 13th August, 2014.

[@gabrielmahound4785]

I was and Atheist. No more. Thank God for John Lennox.

[@5tonyvvvv]

An Infinite God is absurd? Yet atheists invoke Infinite inaccessible universes.. Hilarious!

[@Lakeslover1]

Gabriel Mahound I thoroughly agree with you.

[@katiecook1269]

GOD bless you, Gabriel. Do you know you are named after an angel?

[@gentildjibril5962]

@Rolf Leseratz you're an idiot.

[@luleetomas2108]

Gabriel Mahound Amen!!!! So glad to hear that. I hope you are growing in your faith and personal relationship with God everyday

[@samsonmutambo1849]

More years to you my professor. You teach the truth may God bless you. I love your teachings.

[@mortenkalland]

I like Lennox

[@theologyscienceandpropheti6808]

John Lennox..... nobody even gets close to him!

[@boanerges6886]

We need more people like John

[@louepaglinawan8127]

Brilliant. Glory to God!

[@EricLucero]

I so love John Lennox. What a wonderous mind and a beautiful soul.

[@Evangelist7able]

Impressive and Informative!

[@repuditegamer0079]

May God bless you John. Keep the faith on fire!

[@TristianoLonaldo]

explained like a BOSS!!!!

[@splitpcomedy]

Well done brother John Lennox. 1 Peter 3 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

[@davidticktum6867]

I certainly didn't need to have John to believe in my Savoiur but he is amazing at making Him truthful and totally relevant to those who don't know Him.

[@virginiasurrett5576]

Oh my God I love this debate and you

[@josephthistle7026]

John thank you it helps u explain the bible it helps me get closer to god . U r blessed teaching scripture.

[@Michael7777777ism]

Very wise man...Makes sense..I don't think I've really heard a humble atheist..There is an arrogance and pride-fullness about them that is so unpalatable most of the time...

[@170221dn]

Michael7777777ism You think that John Lennox is humble? He is most certainly one of the most arrogant men you will see in this arena.

[@170221dn]

Botchvinik Thanks for giving such a succinct measure of you as a human being.

[@Ojack33]

Spoken like a true 5th grader. It's almost always materialists that act like spoiled little children on these threads, using profanity & sounding like precocious brats. Embarrassing.

[@robertgregg979]

Amen brother!

[@freethoughtgreg6424]

Thats ironic. Religion is the pinnacle of arrogance. You assert that the universe was build for you and tha you have ultimate knowledge of everything about the universe and that you are right about god and everyone else is wrong and there is no way you could be mistaken. Atheists simply say "I dont know lets do what we can to find out" and i personally would even say the human race is of miniscule significance on the cosmis scale. But i can sympathize with atheists being arrogant because its hard to not be when you can prove with logic and facts that what a theist is saying is demonstrably untrue.

[@Tribal_Dad]

Brilliant man. Thank God for Dr. John Lennox

[@MrKC23]

excellent. God, Adam and Taxonomy has motivated me to study human anatomy!

[@josephthistle7026]

John lennox says what i wish i could say im just not smart enough

[@beemer2869]

John Lennox is a wonderful ambassador for our Lord. Thank you Heavenly Father for giving him this great gift, to share your wonderful Good News. Love, peace , joy, hope and comfort come from from you Lord, and you alone. ❤️❤️❤️

[@robertgregg979]

All of our disagreements can be resolved by simply reading God‘s word.

[@paulperry1489]

Preach!

[@ohdehhan]

All of our disagreements can be resolved by reading the words of Allah. Muslims might disagree with you. Now what? Or think of all the different denominations of Christianity who can't agree what the bible means... they simply read God's word.

[@aaronshuker814]

Amazing to listen to... however, enjoying the facial expressions by the gent on the right lol

[@curiousgeorge555]

I was distracted by them.

[@brianfreeman5880]

always enjoy John's explanations. He makes believing is God seem logical. Now why isn't believing I'm God logical for all of us? IS it because of pride? IDK but I feel like it shouldn't be this hard. Either way I'm glad that a logical belief in GOd is clearly possible. TY John

[@ezsalvation3656]

Thanks Dr. Lennox for explaining that there are all Earthly religions on one side, and then there is Christianity on the other. Christianity is the ONLY belief system that makes the claim that salvation is not earned by our works, but is a gracious gift from God.

[@Tabby318]

Thank you.

[@edwardwicks304]

John Lennox is brilliant!!!

[@mistylight4009]

It is 2021, am not late in viewing this. God leads me to listen to John Lennox. Praise God

[@rep3e4]

awesome

[@Cueteman]

Matthew 7:6 Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs, if you do, they may trample them under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces.

[@virginiasurrett5576]

I'm a 53 year old start .everybody is me ..he used me to back the scientist and their quest for knowledge

[@alexjoseph886]

Explained like a boss! Praise God!

[@wildmansamurai3663]

there is no god you dumbass

[@wildmansamurai3663]

***** No, that's reality.. Deal with it.

[@wildmansamurai3663]

Yeah, Fuck your fake Gawd...EVOLVE.

[@wildmansamurai3663]

yeah, this magical Sky wizard always existed and then snapped his fingers and there was a universe... Once again, Fuck your fairy tale Gawd.

[@andrewwian4921]

+Wildman Samurai really. suppose you can prove this?

[@monaattianese9838]

The older I get the more I understand faith is indeed a gift of importation and divine revelation. There are so many unexplainable truths...and only faith opens them up to us...may God the Most High continue to bless you with brilliance you communicate with🙏🏼✝️😇🔥☮️🕎✝️❤️🔥🔥🔥

[@MegaSage007]

Awesome.

[@virginiasurrett5576]

I feel he was reborn

[@bighurshal]

One of a few wise men,,, date I mention Ravi,, MacArthur,,, McGee,, Rogers,, Vodiee,, and so many others Please exclude prosperity fools

[@Jell-E]

bighurshal don't forget william lane Craig and frank turek!

[@virginiasurrett5576]

You are right

[@christiand7437]

Numbers don't lie.. There is truth in numbers, the universe is a direct reflection of the value of the character of God who created it... He is the unchanging truth that truth in numbers represents...🤔

[@cesspitsid4141]

I'm sorry, but the bible does not separate the beginning with the seven days. as is confirmed in Exodus 20:11 "For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."

[@jeffreylardizabal3964]

So, in retirement one can exercise the luxury of thinking big thoughts without interruption, something over the last 30 years I rarely could do because I was always on 24 hour alert, responding to the emergencies of this world. A friend of mine asked me - "If God is all powerful, all-knowing and everywhere, then why did he ask Adam, as is recorded in Genesis - "Where art thou Adam?" I said, God cannot abide sin. I took my friend under a tree and in the shadow of the tree, the tree’s presence was there, and we were safe from the heat of the sun - it was very hot and muggy. Then, I took him a couple feet from the tree, into the heat of the day, and we were no longer in the shadow of the almighty tree, though the tree was just a few feet away. Psalm 91:1 says - "He who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide in the shadow of the Almighty." When we sin, it is not that either, God does not know we do; or, that God does not see us - he cannot abide in what we are doing. God knew Adam sinned against him; yet, it was like a parent who knows their child's hand is in the cookie jar - or, like in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory when, in the old one, not the new one, when some brat child was doing as they were told not to - Mr. Wonka knew what would happen, but they had to find out for themselves. The wisdom of God is this - his ways are not our ways and never will be. Our wisdom, on the other hand, is like that of an object which is traveling the speed of light, chasing, 13.8 billion lights years away, another object 13.8 billion light years away, also traveling the speed of light, and expects to catch it. What we need is expectation management on such a scale.

[@onelife7850]

How do contact Prof Lennox? Hello from Kenya.

[@virginiasurrett5576]

Science is the study of how god did it god is the master scientist.and my question is who doubts this equation. Who is the maker of the science that is my lifes dna kinda shows one hand in my complex being non human

[@virginiasurrett5576]

I know god is my heavenly father

[@sjepsen808]

Anyone know if Mr llennox supports calvinism.

[@southsidedm1]

By faith we understand that the things which are seen are made by the things which are not seen. Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

[@AtamMardes]

+Mark Green The foundation of Christianity is based on a delusional peasant's attempted murder of his son on a mountain because he thought blood sacrifice is the best way to establish a communication link with his imaginary invisible moral God, who taught them how to buy slaves, how to enslave children, how to beat slaves, how to pass slaves on to the next generation as inheritance, and how to slaughter an entire nation including their infants and animals.

[@siyamanci2596]

+atam mardes there is no such thing in the Bible-what version were you Reading?

[@chasewalker6844]

atam mardes Dude, you should use spend time reading the bible.

[@abadoo1]

"He is the image of the invisible God" Always the giant of history is the man Jesus - either a madman or who he claimed to be - God, And always you have a free will - do you accept him or reject him? Be very careful because your decision has eternal consequences.

[@170221dn]

abadoo1 Exactly, accept a god myth and you will have eternally wasted your precious time on this earth.

[@AdvocateSpirit]

+170221dn Not quite eternally ! Temporarily wasted if anything (not that he'd know) Don't mind me, just passing through

[@matthewstokes1608]

@@170221dnmissing the point, like totally! Er… you just missed everything

[@170221dn]

@@matthewstokes1608 I don’t see how I missed anything. The evidence indicates the god myths humans made up are all untrue. If you waste one minute of your life on your knees to one of these gods that is a minute you will never get back.

[@matthewstokes1608]

@@170221dn 2.2 billion people currently derive an enormous sense of beautiful peace and great pleasure in kneeling before their Christian Father alone! Why are you so obsessed with denigrating their joy and goodwill? These are minutes you will never salvage from death! Wake up and accept the obvious: it is not they that are wasting a single second at all - but you. Your Creator loves you. He has not rejected you.

[@Navitimer-zh5ny]

Therefore, by the multiverse theory, where all events are not only possible but in fact occurs, there would be a universe in which Jesus Christ rose from the dead; thereby proving its existence. Therefore even the multiverse theory proves what we (Believers) know to be a fact.

[@IronSharpensIron127]

It's absolutely absurd that people think God could not create the universe in 7 days

[@lproof8472]

Good grief the atheists in this comment section are nasty. Stop letting the weight of sin crush and control you. Jesus died to give you that peace. Just humble yourselves and bend the knee; for our King and Shepherd will embrace you with joy, not condemnation.

[@18dot7]

Revered in some cultures but persecuted by most others, epilepsy patients have, throughout history, been linked with the divine, demonic, and supernatural. Clinical observations during the past 150 years support an association between religious experiences during (ictal), after (postictal), and in between (interictal) seizures. In addition, epileptic seizures may increase, alter, or decrease religious experience especially in a small group of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Literature surveys have revealed that between .4% and 3.1% of partial epilepsy patients had ictal religious experiences; higher frequencies are found in systematic questionnaires versus spontaneous patient reports. Religious premonitory symptoms or auras were reported by 3.9% of epilepsy patients. Among patients with ictal religious experiences, there is a predominance of patients with right TLE. Postictal and interictal religious experiences occur most often in TLE patients with bilateral seizure foci. Postictal religious experiences occurred in 1.3% of all epilepsy patients and 2.2% of TLE patients. Many of the epilepsy-related religious conversion experiences occurred postictally. Interictal religiosity is more controversial with less consensus among studies. Patients with postictal psychosis may also experience interictal hyper-religiosity, supporting a "pathological" increase in interictal religiosity in some patients. Although psychologic and social factors such as stigma may contribute to religious experiences with epilepsy, a neurologic mechanism most likely plays a large role. The limbic system is also often suggested as the critical site of religious experience due to the association with temporal lobe epilepsy and the emotional nature of the experiences. Neocortical areas also may be involved, suggested by the presence of visual and auditory hallucinations, complex ideation during many religious experiences, and the large expanse of temporal neocortex. In contrast to the role of the temporal lobe in evoking religious experiences, alterations in frontal functions may contribute to increased religious interests as a personality trait. The two main forms of religious experience, the ongoing belief pattern and set of convictions (the religion of the everyday man) versus the ecstatic religious experience, may be predominantly localized to the frontal and temporal regions, respectively, of the right hemisphere.

[@18dot7]

A number of people with epilepsy, particularly those with temporal lobe epilepsy, have reported experiencing religious feelings during their seizures. Some experience a feeling of perfect harmony, the presence of God or a state of ecstasy. Insula is probably of importance for the seizure semiology. Postictally, some may develop religious delusions that can last for several days. A subgroup have an interictal personality characterized by a preoccupation with philosophical or religious questions, as well as hypergraphia. Wise-Knut, who lived in the 1800 s, is a well known example of this in Norway. There is now some evidence that a number of religious people, including prophets, saints, and cult founders, may have had temporal lobe seizures.

[@virginiasurrett5576]

Scientist are seekers of truth or why helping the human race

[@virginiasurrett5576]

You are on to a big. Point .I fight church leaders everyday .they are so busy using and trying to disprove me .I'm just a woman nothing special I have a relationship with truth and a spirit that drives the universe.i have a portol to heaven it's real .the resurrection is kinda reincarnation of an old spirit walking the truth for the lost

[@virginiasurrett5576]

Hawkins wasn't an god hater he hated the institution of church and religion .and he may not have know god but god knew him ,his pain his struggles

[@katiecook1269]

My questions to all the atheist, Why come on a Christian web site? Why would you even bother? Your mind is already made up! Could it be you are unknowingly seeking GOD? If you vehemently deny this why waste your time here listening to a Christian talk?

[@ericaprice3987]

Seeking answers

[@garrethoien6666]

looking at both sides of an argument honestly is a good way to make a good decision on which side is correct.

[@garrethoien6666]

and these clowns pretending to know things they don't know and stating only within their teachings can you be moral makes the argument for atheism stronger

[@18dot7]

@@garrethoien6666 - I tip my hat to you.

[@garrethoien6666]

@@18dot7 i like how i started off reasonable then called them clowns

[@virginiasurrett5576]

There is a god.he is the right and the feeling of all good the devil is doubt and bad .it's a scale

[@virginiasurrett5576]

In heaven Hawkins builds shelf's for pointless problems

[@virginiasurrett5576]

Love yourself and god the ultimate spirit who started the whole thing we call humans .and I have angels .rfk MLK elvis Diana mother t

[@oif3gunner]

Wut

[@virginiasurrett5576]

Woman is the Bible story

[@virginiasurrett5576]

It's a Hawkins touch, feel ,walk and he had to live on a computer ,we tie ourselfs to these stupid phone instead of feeling hug kiss walk and live .do you understand .out science ing each other is loosing human love and enter action

[@virginiasurrett5576]

Please call me or come see me .Monica Virginia

[@virginiasurrett5576]

Am I my dad's ? Charles ? My mom is the Virgin and emaculate no she had sex.

[@randallhatcher7396]

Is Lenox a old earth guy ?. I heard somewhere in he is ?

[@GayorgVonTrapp]

How does this master mathematician figure that the probability we exist is virtually zero. Where does he have the information as to how many other planets have life on them ? What a senseless statement.

[@oif3gunner]

Refute it then, instead of just bitching.

[@GayorgVonTrapp]

@@oif3gunner Err I think I did .... he doesn’t have the data to make or conclude the claim? Come on, keep up.

[@oif3gunner]

@@GayorgVonTrapp Refutations don't end with a question mark, keep up bud.

[@GayorgVonTrapp]

@@oif3gunner My sincere apologies - I typed my previous comment in the Australian fashion. Just replace the question mark with a full stop and it still works. The data is not available to appeal to probability. Also, he’s presupposing that ‘life’ was defined before the cosmos created it. Big error. You still with us?

[@oif3gunner]

@@GayorgVonTrapp Weird, here I thought you would want to prove him wrong somehow. Are you?

[@virginiasurrett5576]

A computer can't fill the love tank we seek .men can't love like a woman that's the code .the love of a mother can heal the wounded world by giving a shit

[@garrethoien6666]

1st answer waffle

[@TheRicktunero]

I truly respect professor Lennox but I differ with him in that he calls evil persons that lived in this world by name and that will be judged and cannot get away with anything. On top of what he asserts that the Lord has accepted us already, compared to other religions, in Christianity even the worst sinner can be redeemed if truly repentant of his/her sins. Remember what the Lord said: "Don't forget that I am between the old bridge that breaks down and the abyss". We may claim we know 100% who sinners are and who are not. What a fallacy. If he restricts himself to the term "sinners" he keeps politics/economics out of the real issue. This neutral terminology would strengthen his position.

[@gamesh0w4life69]

Yea but thats if they repent and mean it. Only god knows their heart very well. U and i can say omg he repented his not going to hell for killing our mother. Wrong only god can judge on that.

[@virginiasurrett5576]

I say I'm girl jesus

[@oif3gunner]

You are a false prophet.

[@willzer808]

Glib delutard Lennox

[@siyamanci2596]

you atheist you do not know the meaning of the word "to reason". no man can reason with you-for you are self-centered with a dogmatist cult ideology.

[@diaryofacarny]

No, that's Dennet.....lol

[@virginiasurrett5576]

Yes the theologian lied about god.

[@2633babe]

Dr. Lennox s science is religion for ignorance.

[@freezingka3730]

The usual chain of fallacies from Lennox. It is sad to see so many grown-ups swalloing so many nonsense from this charlatan.

[@diaryofacarny]

You should debate him. That would be a short one! :)

[@wretch1]

Lennox is the Lewis of today. Great philosopher but a third rate theologian.

[@willzer808]

God that dislike felt good.

[@misha49ish]

So did the one I just gave you ;)

[@willzer808]

Misha Mochalkin Pleasure from bitterness - nothing beats it. Not very Christian though ;o

[@misha49ish]

Lol, not bitter at all. I just like to bring you down a peg

[@AdvocateSpirit]

+willzer808 All 10 of your youtube accounts must feel fulfilled in their existence! But that would give meaning to a KZbin Account....

[@wildmansamurai3663]

Lennox is delusional

[@willzer808]

deeply delusional

[@siyamanci2596]

says someone who doesn't have a degree yet Lennox is a professor of mathematics

[@wildmansamurai3663]

Siya Manci A degree doesn't make him right.. He believes in the bible.. That's all the evidence I need, he's delusional.

[@willzer808]

***** This is correct

[@siyamanci2596]

+Wildman Samurai you believe something came from nothing: you are delusion