Evening Conversation with John Lennox (September 29, 2015)

This is the full, unedited version of the Trinity Forum Evening Conversation with John Lennox. World-renowned mathematician, philosopher and apologist, John Lennox discusses the perceived conflict between science and faith at the Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, TN. This conversation is titled "Cosmic Chemistry: Do Science and God Mix?"
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  • @robertsamraj756
    @robertsamraj7562 ай бұрын

    I am with you Prof. Lennox. That God is is enough to believe in God. Robert Sam Raj. Tamil Nadu.

  • @ericday4505
    @ericday45052 жыл бұрын

    I have been following John Lennox now for maybe a decade, the guy is outstanding as an apologist. But he also seems like a decent guy, like a great guy to have as your neighbor, I listen to just about everything he says, and I agree with just about everything, and that itself is a bit scary.

  • @immanuel829

    @immanuel829

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same here 😍 found Prof. Lennox' talks a few years ago and could listen to him for days and would love to meet him. He has helped me a immensely to find the intellectual reasons for Christianity and to be able to articulate them.

  • @anotherdoseyt

    @anotherdoseyt

    Жыл бұрын

    same, he's so well educated, more than people know

  • @mcmanustony

    @mcmanustony

    5 ай бұрын

    @@anotherdoseyt His ignorance of biology, biochemistry, genetics etc. is truly shocking. The fact that anyone sees a benefit in listening to him lie his ass off about evolution as he bloviates on subjects he's never risen from his duff to actually study is a mystery.....

  • @ethanrichard4950

    @ethanrichard4950

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@mcmanustony Well, you know what they say. Can't be an expert in everything.

  • @mcmanustony

    @mcmanustony

    5 ай бұрын

    @@ethanrichard4950 the issue for me is his arrogance and rank dishonesty.

  • @garyadams7226
    @garyadams7226 Жыл бұрын

    I enjoy Dr. John Lennox. A brilliant man who makes a lot of sense. I love the way he shuts down all of these well-known atheists.

  • @mcmanustony

    @mcmanustony

    5 ай бұрын

    " he shuts down all of these well-known atheists."- which atheists? Shut down with what? Despicable idiotic lies about evolution?

  • @mcmanustony

    @mcmanustony

    3 ай бұрын

    He does what? What the hell are you smoking?

  • @abeykollakkaranalex
    @abeykollakkaranalex4 ай бұрын

    ❤ I'm now trying to learn French and Spanish other than the 2000 languages i studied from my country 🎉❤

  • @jimkidd6334
    @jimkidd63342 жыл бұрын

    The telling of the account of Joseph so so informative

  • @donblosser8720
    @donblosser87202 жыл бұрын

    I was at a similar lecture some years ago at Cal Berkeley. Amusingly Lennox pointed out that the motto of that institution is Fiat Lux, which is translated, "Let there be light". After a short pause he then said, "That's why I am here tonight". He went on to talk about a trip he made to the Soviet Union (when such an entity existed) and a talk he gave, in Russian, on The Theistic Roots of Western Science. He described an older gentleman seated near the front who became more and more visibly upset, getting more and more red in the face and starting to pound a fist into his other hand. At that point Lennox departed from his usual Q&A format and gave the gentleman an opportunity to speak. Turns out he was furious but he was furious that he had been deceived his whole academic life. He had been told that no rational, scientific thinker ever believed in God and hearing Lennox, he realized that he had been duped and lied to. Regarding Q&A, to this day I regret that I had not lined up in Berkeley. I would have asked something like this: Richard Dawkins often asks the question. "If God created everything, then who created God?" Having spoken with and debated Dawkins, do you think he is intellectually incapable of understanding the concept of an eternal God or is he just stubbornly resistant, not wishing to have moral accountability?

  • @ericday4505

    @ericday4505

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow that is a rather sad an telling story of some of what goes on in institutions of higher learning, referring to the poor gentleman sitting there pounding his fist. And as for Lennox he is one of the very best christian thinkers I have ever come across, he is also a splendid debater.

  • @scottm4042

    @scottm4042

    Жыл бұрын

    To your question of is Richard Dawkins incapable of understanding an eternal God? We can only guess. But, the Bible says that the devil blinds the eyes of the unbelievers. So, we can pray for unbelievers, that God would remove their blinders in Jesus name, and we know that with God nothing is impossible.

  • @ericday4505

    @ericday4505

    Жыл бұрын

    @@scottm4042 You are correct however some deny God, because of unrighteousness, as Paul says in Romans I believe.

  • @scottm4042

    @scottm4042

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ericday4505 There is the warning against the hardening of your heart as in the rebellion in Hebrews 3:8. And the warning of getting a reprobate mind in Romans 1:28. Yes, there are a number of reasons that can blind the eyes of people. But God is Merciful, and if people repent, and trust in Jesus, they will be forgiven.

  • @AG-ig8uf

    @AG-ig8uf

    Жыл бұрын

    "incapable of understanding the concept of an eternal God" - how is it different to inability to accept concept of eternal universe ? IF anything, latter makes far more sense that eternal omnipresent and omnipotent being. Everything around us screams that complex things develop from simpler things. You not getting born into Lennox, you start as single cell, and develop into human. Yet you stubbornly believe that god os some Benjamin Button lol. And your statement about "moral accountability" just exposes how immoral so called religious people are.

  • @abeykollakkaranalex
    @abeykollakkaranalex4 ай бұрын

    ❤mr.bill opened opened gateway to momy siri😅❤

  • @lannyhoover1625
    @lannyhoover1625 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant!!

  • @clifflong1203
    @clifflong12038 ай бұрын

    Love Dr Lennox!🙏💪❤️

  • @zbawienietylkowJezusie
    @zbawienietylkowJezusie Жыл бұрын

    your life is important. praise to the Lord

  • @raymondswenson1268
    @raymondswenson1268 Жыл бұрын

    The Vatican not only has astronomers, it has an Observatory. It has astrophysicist and cosmological, in the tradition of priest Georges LeMaitre who was one of the first to propose what is now called the Big Bang Theory.

  • @candeffect
    @candeffect2 жыл бұрын

    Atheism logic: The expensive toys on Mars evolved from unguided random natural forces because the creators of the toys are not contained in the toys. There are unlimited God-honoring good things to do now and forever.

  • @googleuser2609

    @googleuser2609

    3 ай бұрын

    Christian logic: - *"Do this, and this -- or else!"*

  • @Boratio
    @Boratio Жыл бұрын

    8:00

  • @williamwallace3257
    @williamwallace32576 ай бұрын

    I think that Lennox is on shaky ground to criticise Dawkins for talking about a subject he isnt trained in as this is exactly what Lennox does everytime he has a debate! Lennox is not a biologist pealeontoligist anthropologist astrophysicist or cosmologist but he still criticises the work of all the scientists in these fields and acts as though he understands these subjects more than those professionals as he says that God is real and created everything even though those studying these subjects have said they have not found the evidence!

  • @mcmanustony

    @mcmanustony

    5 ай бұрын

    Lennox is just a pompous, dishonest old buffoon at this stage. His lies about evolution are a disgrace.

  • @googleuser2609

    @googleuser2609

    3 ай бұрын

    But the difference is that Lennox candidly acknowledges that he is NOT an expert in any field outside his speciality, emphasising at the same time, to read widely and up-to-date, in those allied areas, so as to know "what's going on" in those other sciences.

  • @mcmanustony

    @mcmanustony

    3 ай бұрын

    @@googleuser2609 this is false. Lennox is an arrogant, dishonest buffoon who does exactly what the OP says he does. The difference is that Lennox has never uttered a syllable on video on his speciality-the theory of infinite soluble groups. There are many videos of Dawkins speaking about biology, evolution, genetics, the evolution of the eye, the gene as the fundamental unit of selection.....etc. I have NEVER heard Lennox, and I've endured hours of his hopeless wittering, speak about algebra. All you'll get are sanctimonious piffle about Jesus, sneering at scientists who don't share his invisible friends, hopeless equivocating and lies about evolution. I used to think of him as an affable Ulsterman with some really tired apologetics. He's actually a malignant, lying clown.

  • @robertmccully2792

    @robertmccully2792

    13 күн бұрын

    Evidence, did your grandfather love your dad. Proof it,show me the evidence. Your statement make no sence.

  • @miltonwetherbee5489
    @miltonwetherbee54893 жыл бұрын

    Regarding the idea that God can't be an explain of anything because He is more complicated than the thing He's explaining. I can think very easily of many examples of how that didn't make logical sense. I will list some of them. We can't be explanations of the existence of computers for while they are quite complex they are no where close to being as complex as we are. Not only are our thoughts complex, but our very structure is exceedingly complex right down to the cellular level where chemistry and physics come together in complex systems which resemble machinery in a high end factory more advanced than any factory we have currently created, and these cells form structures with varying degrees of hierarchy of organization far beyond anything we have created. The first automobiles were even simpler, and then there are the basic machines which include things such as pulleys. Surely if a being cannot be more complicated than what it creates then we couldn't have created anything. Now, as it happens, as far as beings go, a being such as God seems to be fairly simple in that He is a disembodied mind, He is not made up of a bunch of parts. His thoughts are exceedingly complex, but His being is as simple as it gets. So either way you look at it, claiming God is too complex to be an explanation seems to be a remarkably foolish argument to make.

  • @petrudandea3989

    @petrudandea3989

    2 жыл бұрын

    The fact that God is a spirit (immaterial) does not means He is simple.If the universe He created is so complex that the brilliant scientists are still struggle to explain it what makes you to believe that God is very simple?

  • @danbaron2561
    @danbaron2561 Жыл бұрын

    All of his talks, lectures, are almost the same. Sorry, but it's true.

  • @danbaron2561

    @danbaron2561

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lepidoptera9337 I don't think he's a horse. And, you don't accept his apology? 😊

  • @thomasgyambrah6888

    @thomasgyambrah6888

    Жыл бұрын

    True, cos the questions are almost always the same. Again, people are faced with similar questions ( God, meaning etc) . That's the whole debate

  • @paulgarduno2867

    @paulgarduno2867

    Жыл бұрын

    Of course they are the same.! " there's nothing new under the sun." Stubborn humans reject wisdom. The two questions of the ages : Who created the universe ? And Who has the authority to judge.?

  • @danbaron2561

    @danbaron2561

    Жыл бұрын

    @@paulgarduno2867 Here's some wisdom for you. 🥲 kzread.info/dash/bejne/rKSJwcdsmsvFdrw.html

  • @raymondswenson1268

    @raymondswenson1268

    Жыл бұрын

    The atheists that he debates all say the same thing, over and over.