52 Quotes by John C. Lennox

Far from science abolishing God, it would seem that there is a substantial case for asserting that it is the existence of a Creator that gives to science its fundamental intellectual justification.

There is a real conflict, but it is not science versus religion. It is theism versus atheism, and there are scientists on both sides.

The fact that we understand some of the mechanisms of the working of the universe or of living systems does not preclude the existence of a designer, any more than the possession of insight into the processes by which a watch has been put together, however automatic these processes may appear, implies there can be no watchmaker.’39.

Society tolerates the practice of the Christian faith in private devotions and in church services, but it increasingly deprecates public witness.

If the text means that the sun came into existence on day 4, Origen was asking a very reasonable question: “If the sun is not yet there, how are we to understand the first three days with their ’evenings and mornings.

But that does not alter the fact that mainstream Christianity will insist that faith and evidence are inseparable. Indeed, faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.

The existence of laws of physics... strongly implies that there is a God who formulates such laws and ensures that the physical realm conforms to them.