John Lennox: The REASON We Exist & Scientific PROOF Of God

Reflection

John Lennox, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, is one of the most respected Christian thinkers engaging directly with the New Atheist movement. In this clip he argues that the existence and intelligibility of the universe point beyond mere physics: the laws science describes are themselves something that demand an explanation. Far from God being a 'gap' that science is steadily closing, Lennox suggests that the deepest questions, why there is something rather than nothing, why mathematics maps onto reality, why minds can know truth, sit outside the scientific method altogether. For anyone wrestling with the idea that science has 'replaced' the need for God, Lennox is a careful, generous voice worth listening to.

Questions to sit with

• If the universe is governed by precise mathematical laws, what kind of source could produce both the laws and the matter that obeys them?
• Does explaining how something works automatically explain why it exists?
• Where would you draw the line between questions science can answer and questions it cannot?

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