15.9.09

John Lennox

I've just been listening to an interview with John Lennox, professor of Mathematics at Oxford University. He has a few great lines (and thoughts) such as:
There are two world views that are diametrically conflicting here - it's not science and religion. I see the conflict as not between science and religion at all - it's between world views, atheism and theism - and there's scientists on both sides.

And on our very scientific ability as a pointer to God.
If the thoughts in my mind are simply the random motions of atoms in my brain, why should I believe any theories they develop - including the one that my mind's composed of atoms.

And on Genesis,
I tend to start by thinking about the very fact that scripture claims there was a beginning. That's a stunning thing, because it took science up til the 1960s to get that far.

It's a very thoughtful interview - worth a listen.