A voice of reason.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR :
John Carson Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science, and Pastoral Advisor at Green Templeton College.
He teaches for the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme at the Executive Education Centre, Said Business School, University of Oxford.
He has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles on mathematics and co-authored two Oxford Mathematical Monographs and has worked as a translator of Russian mathematics.
I believe in God the Father, Maker of Heaven and Earth . . . .
Didn’t Einstein say “God doesn’t roll dice?”
Didn’t Einstein say “God doesn’t roll dice?”
Laws of physics are a tool, not an ultimate end to a means. The laws about optics and the behavior made the better (reflecting) telescope, not the other way around. I think what most people fail to realize is that “good science” is an excellent and meaningful tool in a very real world. I say this because as someone in the field of environmental chemistry, good and proper use of scientific means brings a good end (i.e. you know either what you should or should not do as a given solution to a problem). However, it’s a field in continual need of refinement, and some people, especially in the theoretical realm, make it their religion.
I’d like to ask Prof. Hawking where life came from. You don’t get animate matter from inanimate matter. No way. no how. Where did the genetic material to create an elephant come from? A one-celled amoeba floating around a swamp?
Thanks for sharing this.
I like this part:
“Just as strong is the obvious reality that we are moral beings, capable of understanding the difference between right and wrong. There is no scientific route to such ethics.”
Why are these people so afraid of God?
I guess I could understand why a person in Hawking’s position might not be oh so thrilled about God. If I had a terrible disease as he does I might be pretty negative about God and/or Nature and/or Fate, whichever.
This article confirmed my suspicions that there wasn’t much new in what he’s recently written.
Obviously “gravity” is a description of an existing fact, not an actor in any sense of the term.
Also, clearly, the failure to find extra-terrestrial life after all this time, or their failure to find us (some think they have found us, I realize that, but let’s face it, they’ve found very, very few at best) seems to frustrate these atheists, but I don’t know why.
The atheists seem to think that it is believers who have God in a box, but actually it is they who do.
What believer really thinks they can understand God, or even begin to comprehend Him or His power?
But the atheists think they can say God not needed, gravity’s enough, or god is dead, or wait until we find space aliens, and they’ve made the argument.
Why couldn’t there be space aliens AND humans and both created in God’s image?
Because we don’t know what God really is do we?
And could we ever?
As a layman, I can’t look at the universe without seeing evidence of God.
First Cause, baby.
Heh, when they come up with a better explanation of how life began, I will listen. Otherwise, it is all just a hope fest... Scientists will be scientists until they confront the facts... Life is unexplainable regardless of their theories.
Who created God?
You mean gravity can’t create out of nothing the celestial bodies necessary for gravity to exist in the first place? I guess there really is no free lunch.