John Lennox Discusses the Beginning of the Universe - Science Uprising Expert Interview

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  • Опубликовано: 19 сен 2021
  • In this new bonus interview for the Science Uprising series, Oxford University mathematician John Lennox discusses whether the big bang theory disproves the need for God and several other provocative questions: Will science be able to unravel every mystery about the natural world? Does the universe need a creator? And does science point towards God?
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  • @marcocortes9968
    @marcocortes9968 2 года назад +185

    God Bless John Lennox and his family. I know it must be hard since he is almost 80. May God bless him with great health and gives him many more years on Earth. I love listening to him explain things.

    • @noobsaibot5285
      @noobsaibot5285 2 года назад

      He has some great points. Just ignore the evolutionist propaganda. That is a huge part of the decline of the church.

    • @maryfrancis2494
      @maryfrancis2494 Год назад +7

      Why ?
      He mostly doesn't know what he's talking about.

    • @noneofyourbusinessna740
      @noneofyourbusinessna740 Год назад +14

      @@maryfrancis2494 perhaps you dont know what your talking about budd?

    • @jamesfenning47
      @jamesfenning47 Год назад +1

      @@maryfrancis2494 You Have Clue What Talking You Must Be Catholic They Don,t Tell Truth

    • @rolandsaffy7719
      @rolandsaffy7719 Год назад +11

      @@maryfrancis2494 I love how people make one liner criticisms without any facts or data to back up their claims. Why is no one interviewing you and 150K people watching? I think this fact speaks for itself.

  • @MarieH589
    @MarieH589 Год назад +106

    May John Lennox continue to keep his brilliant mind.

    • @paulmcglen9413
      @paulmcglen9413 4 месяца назад

      More like a very misguided mind! He says that science cannot tell us about before the big bang, but the belief in a God tells us absolutely nothing about it! Nor can it ever.

    • @mikem.s.1183
      @mikem.s.1183 2 месяца назад

      I studied Theoretical Physics in the university. Still do, it's inevitably a never ending enterprise.
      His arguments are BRILLIANT. Typical of Mathematicians.
      May I/we keep such a lucid, intelligent, rational mind as the years go by, as he so easily shows.

  • @damo780
    @damo780 2 года назад +184

    Thank God for Christian scientists like Professor Lrnnox🙏

    • @maryfrancis2494
      @maryfrancis2494 Год назад +11

      Surprise !
      Hes not a scientist, never was.
      He does math, he's out of his league.

    • @jonkettell4321
      @jonkettell4321 Год назад +7

      @@maryfrancis2494 Noone worth his salt disputes the fact that Dr. Lennox is a scientist. Besides, science is not the only way to truth.

    • @sonnypruitt6639
      @sonnypruitt6639 Год назад +16

      @@maryfrancis2494 Not only is mathematics a science, but mathematics is the perfect science, superior to all others.

    • @malcolmbiddle2681
      @malcolmbiddle2681 Год назад +5

      @@sonnypruitt6639 And yet he has views that cannot be proven by any known mathematics.

    • @rubiks6
      @rubiks6 Год назад +6

      @@maryfrancis2494 - A piece of paper on the wall does not make someone a scientist. Anyone who does science is a scientist. I think maybe you don't even know what "science" is.

  • @livetwice7702
    @livetwice7702 2 года назад +107

    I could listen to John Lennox all day

    • @seanrathmakedisciples1508
      @seanrathmakedisciples1508 Год назад +9

      I’ve listened to this video over and over again. John is great source of knowledge. He is so precise in his thoughts. ❤

  • @dewbye63
    @dewbye63 2 года назад +119

    “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”
    ― Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers

    • @therick363
      @therick363 2 года назад +4

      Doesn't equal truth of reality.

    • @EmeraldPixelGamingEPG
      @EmeraldPixelGamingEPG 2 года назад +2

      @@therick363 Did he say it did?

    • @rebanelson607
      @rebanelson607 2 года назад

      @@therick363 Reality is more than material. Something that does not have material substance is not disqualified from existence. Scientism is not logical.

    • @kimbuoy1
      @kimbuoy1 11 месяцев назад +3

      I love this quote!

  • @paddydiskin3645
    @paddydiskin3645 2 года назад +66

    There is a man who knows his subject. He can explain it in language that anybody can understand and has no need to impress people outside his specialty with scientific jargon and try to befuddle the masses.
    Bravo Prof. Lennox !

    • @Shytot-1
      @Shytot-1 7 месяцев назад +2

      He's a mathematician, not a scientist. As for befuddling the masses, he's doing a very good job at that as well.

    • @victoriageraci
      @victoriageraci Месяц назад

      @@Shytot-1He speaks in very understandable language you can choose whether or not to adhere to it when it comes to what you believe. He lays it out as he sees it he doesn’t force anything or make things confusing to blur people’s vision to the truth.

  • @sonamoo919
    @sonamoo919 2 года назад +40

    A very charming man with bright countenance and profound intelligence! Love the way he argues!

  • @Marius.82.
    @Marius.82. 2 года назад +38

    I missed him so much! God bless you Sir !

  • @IntoAllTruth.
    @IntoAllTruth. Год назад +23

    I was taught in grade school that spontaneous generation of life from non-life is impossible. I will add that getting something from nothing is equally impossible. There must be a motivating, designing force to bring these things to pass.

    • @brud1729
      @brud1729 11 месяцев назад +2

      And yet here we are! Certainly when the earth was a hot molten mess there was no life and just 4 billion years later we had dinosaurs roaming all parts of the earth, with no man in sight. Somewhere along the way life was spawned from non-life. After that life progressed as described by Darwin and Dawkins. As Hawkins said, no need for mythological figures.

    • @ronaldorivera4674
      @ronaldorivera4674 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@brud1729
      If your mind is nothing more than a product of random mutations, and mindless unguided processes what gives you reason to trust the validity of what your brain produces? Or why should anyone? Your simply molecules in motion responding to the chemical reactions in your brain and as Richard Dawkins says " dancing to your DNA" you have no objective standard to make any truth claims, or that your view is correct, because the brain serves evolutionary success not truth.

    • @nzrockdj
      @nzrockdj 11 месяцев назад

      Yes I would agree and the designing force is God our father in heaven and his words created heaven and earth

    • @paulanderson3898
      @paulanderson3898 10 месяцев назад

      @@brud1729nonsense

    • @seanpittaway5341
      @seanpittaway5341 10 месяцев назад

      There doesn't have to be anything unless you have evidence other than "I don't know so God" well, do you? Rhetorical as we both know you don't.

  • @robschade5373
    @robschade5373 2 года назад +474

    Science continues to point to a creator

    • @muslimwoolfy-winterequestr4344
      @muslimwoolfy-winterequestr4344 2 года назад +43

      And it always will

    • @shankz8854
      @shankz8854 2 года назад +3

      Why then are there so many atheist scientists? Why are scientists on the whole becoming less religious? Elite scientists are one of the least religious groups on earth.

    • @ahmadfrhan5265
      @ahmadfrhan5265 2 года назад +4

      @@shankz8854 that's not true at all. elite scientist are all religious. why are you lying?

    • @Jonas-gl9ke
      @Jonas-gl9ke 2 года назад +8

      If you believe there is a “creator”, how would you expect the universe to look if there wasn’t a creator?

    • @rubiks6
      @rubiks6 2 года назад

      @@shankz8854 - "... _many_ atheist scientists …"? Perhaps you should ask why there are _so many_ atheist human beings and also so many believers in false religions. It would seem that our first ancestors, Adam and Eve rejected God and lost the Spirit of Gᴏᴅ, and thus you and I and the scientists and all of humanity are fumbling around in the dark trying to find "truth" which comes only from the Spirit of Gᴏᴅ. Sure we can collect lots of evidences but our interpretations of those evidences will always be skewed unless we apply the revealed truths of Gᴏᴅ written in His Word to them.
      _"Why then are there so many atheist scientists?"_
      Because our oldest ancestor rejected truth and believed a lie and that rejection of truth is a character trait passed on to all of us. Like father, like son(s). Hadn't you heard?

  • @Born1976
    @Born1976 2 года назад +66

    Appreciate John Lennox so much!

    • @kobusvandermerwe7288
      @kobusvandermerwe7288 2 года назад +4

      Me too Michael. I really hope that he lives and teaches for a few more years to come.

  • @Atomic568
    @Atomic568 10 месяцев назад +13

    One of Northern Ireland’s greatest thinkers, scientists, mathematician & Christian’s. Brilliant mind.

  • @jimborowy8160
    @jimborowy8160 2 года назад +113

    This is a beautiful video! Of course there is a God! There is so much evidece it is mind blowing.

    • @missk1697
      @missk1697 2 года назад +10

      There is no "Evidence" for any gods from scientific perspective. No evidence for materialism either, of course. But in science, disproving A doesn't automatically prove B or C.
      The only honest answer to the question "Where did universe come from", at least for now, is "We don't know".

    • @wilhelmlorenz5852
      @wilhelmlorenz5852 2 года назад +2

      👉🤔I Really Hope people as Smart as All the SCIENTISTS 😁🌞🔆🌞🔆🌞🌄❤️❣️❤️👋👈🙏👉 WILL Start Believing that there's a CREATOR Behind All of the Laws That RUN The WONDERFUL UNIVERSE ❤️❣️❤️👋🙏😇📔💖👈

    • @rubiks6
      @rubiks6 2 года назад +1

      If you remove the indefinite article from in front of "God" your statement will be perfect.
      *Of course, there is Gᴏᴅ!*

    • @shankz8854
      @shankz8854 2 года назад +1

      What’s the best piece of evidence?

    • @ahmad_hasayen
      @ahmad_hasayen 2 года назад +2

      @@missk1697 of course no evidence ... science does not give u the truth or certainty. the question about the god is metaphysical question :means : Science cannot answer .

  • @Skriften
    @Skriften 2 года назад +55

    Spot on! This is exactly the "starting point" I have used in certain confrontations. "Nothing creates nothing, Therefore something must have existed eternally". And when all factors are accounted for you will come to one conclusion: "1. An Intelligence Superior or 2. Everything has always existed". And from this the debate goes on...

    • @colinmatts
      @colinmatts 2 года назад +1

      You're strawmaning the position of non belief in a god. No one seriously makes an argument that "nothing creates nothing".

    • @eltonron1558
      @eltonron1558 2 года назад +2

      Number 2, is no good. All matter has age. There is no eternity of matter.

    • @Jesus_is_Lord_316
      @Jesus_is_Lord_316 2 года назад +1

      @@colinmatts you need to listen to this video again.

    • @kennethgee2004
      @kennethgee2004 2 года назад +4

      @@colinmatts Dr. Lawrence Krauss argues that nothing made the universe. Dr. Stephen Hawking said that the universe will create itself out of nothing. are you sure you know what people are claiming?

    • @cobramcjingleballs
      @cobramcjingleballs 2 года назад +4

      @@colinmatts It's literally big bang theory....oddly, an atheist choose option 2 and created steady state theory because he basically if the catholics can make matter out of nothing, so can I, but all over the place. I love people who don't know science history.

  • @mathew4181
    @mathew4181 2 года назад +26

    *An Overview of the Fine tuning argument*
    For many, the regularity of the universe and the precision with which the universe exploded into being provides even more evidences for the existence of God. This evidence technically known as the Teleological argument, derives its name from the Greek word telos, which means "design." The Teleological argument goes like this:
    1. Every design has a designer
    2. The universe has high- complex design
    3. Therefore, the universe has a designer
    *The Anthropic Principle*
    Scientists are finding the universe is like that watch ( anology of William Paley ), except even more precisely designed. These highly-precise and interdependent environmental conditions (called "anthropic constants") make up what is known as the "Anthropic Principle"-- a title for the mounting evidence that has many scientists believing the universe is extremely fine tuned (designed) to support human life on earth (Thats why some notorious atheists including Antony Flew later believed in God). Some Anthropic constants example include:
    Oxygen level
    • On earth, oxygen comprises 21 percent of the atmosphere
    • That precise figure is an Anthropic constant that make life in earth possible.
    • If oxygen were 25 percent fire would erept spontaneously
    • If it were 15 percent, human beings would suffocate
    Carbon dioxide level
    • If the carbon dioxide level was higher than it is now, a runaway greenhouse effect would develop, and we would all burnt up
    • If the level was lower than it is now, plants would not be able to maintain efficient photosynthesis, and we would all suffocate
    For more evidence:
    reasons.org/explore/blogs/tag/fine-tuning/page/2
    reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/rtb-design-compendium-2009
    *What are the chances?*
    It's not there just a few broadly defined constants that may have resulted by chance. There are more than 100 very narrowly defined constants that strongly point to an Intelligent Designer. Astrophysicist, Hugh Ross, calculated the probability these and other constants would exist for any planet in the universe by chance (i.e, without divine design). To meet all conditions, there is 1 chance in 10^1038 (one chance in one with 1038 zeroes after it)-- essentially 0% chance.
    According to probability theory, odds of less than 1 in 10^50 equals " zero probability" .
    Check:reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/probability-for-life-on-earth
    It only proves that atheism is just a dogmatic belief. Nearly 2000 years ago, the apostle St Paul wrote in his letter to the Romans, *_" For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse"_*
    _Important: The term “entropy” describes degree of thermodynamic “disorder” in a closed system like the universe. “Maximum entropy” would describe the “heat death” of the universe (which is the state it is slowly gravitating towards). Amazingly, our universe was at its “minimum entropy” at the very beginning, which begs the question “how did it get so orderly?” Looking just at the initial entropy conditions, what is the likelihood of a universe supportive of life coming into existence by coincidence? One in billions of billions? Or trillions of trillions of trillions? Or more?_
    _Sir Roger Penrose, 2020 Nobel prize winner and a close friend of Stephen Hawking, wondered about this question and tried to calculate the probability of the initial entropy conditions of the Big Bang_
    _According to Penrose, the odds against such an occurrence were on the order of 10 to the power of 10^123 to 1_
    _It is hard even to imagine what this number means. In math, the value 10^123 means 1 followed by 123 zeros. (This is, by the way, more than the total number of atoms [10^79] believed to exist in the whole universe.) But Penrose's answer is vastly more than this: It requires 1 followed by 10^10^123 zeros_
    _It’s important to recognize that we're not talking about a single unlikely event here. We’re talking about hitting the jackpot over and over again, nailing extremely unlikely, mutually complementary parameters of constants and quantities, far past the point where chance could account for it_

    • @bishnukumar7471
      @bishnukumar7471 2 года назад +6

      Appreciate the time u took to write. Enjoyed

    • @michaelbailey8478
      @michaelbailey8478 Год назад +1

      Thank you for that excellent content. If you are not a teacher, you should be one.

  • @leroybrown9143
    @leroybrown9143 2 года назад +79

    Statements by Hawking, et al, demonstrate the truth and accuracy of Is 55:9. Even the sharpest minds in humanity are reduced to mundane fools and blubbering idiots when they presume and pretend to comprehend the things of God.
    Believers know, and have always known, these two fundamental truths: God alone is self-eternal and God alone is infinite. Applied anywhere else these terms are misnomers.

    • @rubiks6
      @rubiks6 2 года назад +7

      _"Seek ye the Lᴏʀᴅ while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lᴏʀᴅ, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lᴏʀᴅ._ *For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.* _For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands."_
      Isaiah 55.6 - 12 (KJV) (Emphasis added.)

    • @t00by00zer
      @t00by00zer 2 года назад +3

      God is OUTSIDE the universe. The universe is HIS creation. Until He had the idea, the universe did not exist. It was formless and void until He spoke a sound, a vibration, and set into motion all that came afterward. If He imagined a boundless universe, then it is boundless. An infinite within and infinitely greater infinite. And being eternal, then when would the universe have begun on His "time scale" since He is outside of time?
      We are made in His image . . . we are an idea, His idea, and being in His image, we are then also eternal. We existed before we were born. We will exist after our "time" in this temporal illusion. His Kingdom is not of this world. It is not of the temporal, but of the eternal.

    • @johncastino2730
      @johncastino2730 2 года назад

      Exactly right Leroy. Well said.

    • @eswn1816
      @eswn1816 2 года назад +2

      Absolutely!
      Infinity applied to the non-spiritual, material world is unsubstantiated and absurd!

    • @shankz8854
      @shankz8854 2 года назад

      That’s what believers _think._ They can’t _know_ anymore than the rest of us.

  • @josephtimmerriman3884
    @josephtimmerriman3884 Год назад +24

    Love your teachings Dr Lennox , God bless you and your family and her friends and your ministry

  • @ScotsThinker
    @ScotsThinker 2 года назад +30

    First!
    We love you John Lennox! God bless you!

  • @virginiashroyer2279
    @virginiashroyer2279 Год назад +14

    Thank God for Mr. Lennox! He has done an amazing job on defending God in a world of unbelief!

    • @johnbrown6189
      @johnbrown6189 5 месяцев назад +1

      why do you think God needs defending?

  • @shipwright6122
    @shipwright6122 2 года назад +15

    My favorite apologist 🙏🏼✝️😇

  • @landofthefree2023
    @landofthefree2023 2 года назад +9

    Bless you John Lennox...
    Bless the availability of this technology which makes you known to us.
    Our lives are truly enriched because of our Lord and you. I'm so thankful to experience your wisdom and your understanding.
    The perspective you bring is genuinely a true inspiration.

  • @DrayDray78
    @DrayDray78 Год назад +5

    Thank you 🙏 Lord for fine tuning brother John Lennox to coexist simultaneously as a Christian, scientist, mathematician, an author ✍️ and a well spoken gentleman we can all learn from! Amen 🙏 0:02

  • @andrewgraham7659
    @andrewgraham7659 2 года назад +6

    This is perhaps the best channel I have stumbled across. I wasn't looking for anything in particular but I know many scientists by reputation and by getting into apologetics. Man needs God, it's not the other way around.

  • @hulkai3436
    @hulkai3436 2 года назад +14

    Impressive logical points 👍

  • @throckmortensnivel2850
    @throckmortensnivel2850 9 месяцев назад +2

    The term "Big Bang" wasn't coined by those who believe the universe had a beginning. It was first used by Fred Hoyle, who believed in the so-called "steady state" universe. He used the term in 1949, saying it was not used in a perjorative sense, although it does seem a bit perjorative on the face of it. In any case, the originators of the theory did not call it an explosion, and they didn't say there was an actual bang.

  • @isaiahben-yahweh3245
    @isaiahben-yahweh3245 2 года назад +55

    This man is too funny, his intelligence makes his jokes that much funnier. How can you say "Now I give lectures about nothing." While still keeping a mostly straight face, ROFL

  • @colinsmith1288
    @colinsmith1288 9 месяцев назад +3

    Love this guy. His humility is quite comforting.

  • @alfiearock
    @alfiearock 2 года назад +5

    A brilliant human being is John Lennox

  • @wilhelmlorenz5852
    @wilhelmlorenz5852 2 года назад +6

    👉🙏🤗ONE OF MY FAVORITE APOLOGETICS PEOPLE 👈,🤔👉A REAL MAN OF GOD.. 👈👉❤️🙏 I PRAY 🙏 THAT GOD WILL BLESS THIS PRESENTATION 🤗🌹👈

  • @chrisburton8079
    @chrisburton8079 Год назад +5

    God bless critical thinkers and scholars like Prof J Lennox he is an amazing man

  • @idontwantacallsign
    @idontwantacallsign 2 года назад +43

    So logical. Thank you for sharing and thank you to John Lennox for his logical reasoning. Of course there is a God. Romans 1:20-21 say it very directly: For his invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable. 21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God nor did they thank him, but they became empty-headed in their reasonings and their senseless hearts became darkened.

  • @KenJackson_US
    @KenJackson_US 2 года назад +92

    No one has ever observed anything cause itself. So it's strictly a matter of *faith* to believe the universe caused itself to come into existence.

    • @ScotsThinker
      @ScotsThinker 2 года назад +4

      indeed Mr. Jackson.

    • @MyMy-tv7fd
      @MyMy-tv7fd 2 года назад +6

      that not what he said - God created it, not itself creating itself

    • @bennyredpilled5455
      @bennyredpilled5455 2 года назад +2

      Creating itself is absolute non-sense

    • @urso3000
      @urso3000 2 года назад +8

      In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Only the blind don't want to see.

    • @6666666662
      @6666666662 2 года назад

      Anything other than a divine creator. I mean anything!

  • @Shabeck100
    @Shabeck100 2 года назад +9

    Great video on many levels - particularly on fine tuning and the reality that there is something rather than nothing...and I say this as a "relatively" (since ancient means thousands not millions ordinarily) young earth creationist who, unlike John Lennox, holds to an universe/earth of around 6-8000 yrs old & who sees Big Bang Theory historically as largely an effort to justify cosmic evolution and "creation" (in a wholly different order than presented in Genesis) without a Creator.

  • @muslimwoolfy-winterequestr4344
    @muslimwoolfy-winterequestr4344 2 года назад +5

    Underated channel

  • @cavendish009
    @cavendish009 Год назад +2

    Such an interesting talk and something which should be shouted all round the world to make us ALL wake up !

  • @arkangelnorthman
    @arkangelnorthman 2 года назад +13

    Wisdom.

  • @jamesthomson9039
    @jamesthomson9039 2 года назад +2

    We Love John Lennox very much

    • @Jonas-gl9ke
      @Jonas-gl9ke 2 года назад

      You mean “you” love John Lennox very much.

  • @emsans5904
    @emsans5904 Год назад +2

    I adore John Lennox, I’d love to have lunch with him so we could have a deeply interesting conversation. We just so happen to live in the same city, maybe one day I will be blessed by bumping into him 🥰

  • @johnmcgahan1001
    @johnmcgahan1001 Год назад +3

    God brought John Lennox to my attention i've now watched several interviews now .

  • @radosawszmid7822
    @radosawszmid7822 Год назад

    Kardashev scale Type I is still beyond our reach with such logic...

  • @mikebellamy
    @mikebellamy 2 года назад +3

    There is a Big problem with the Big bang: *The origin of matter!*
    Mass of universe = 1e80 protons = 1.67e53 Kg
    Escape velocity = v = √(2GM/r) therefore r = 2GM/v2
    Substitute M = 1.67e53 and v = 3e8 m/sec (speed of light)
    The minimum diameter of the universe below which it will collapse into a black hole is
    52.5 billion light years
    Hence the matter in the universe could not be created in the early hot stage when the universe was small!
    Also
    Running the universe back in time is not the same for energy and matter as assumed in all these models!
    Think of a candle burning (like star we see today) the ENERGY goes back to a very small point BUT
    the MATTER does not! It gets bigger until it reaches a maximum mass and then STOPS.
    Stars must by the second law do the same they can only go back to the point of maximum hydrogen and that is their minimum entropy state!
    That means the real Big Bang was first an expansion of space and energy with no mass then the creation of stars in their lowest entropy state or maximum hydrogen fuel state. Which actually matches what the bible says God did in the opening chapter of Genesis!
    Day 1 God said "let there be light" expansion of space and photon energy giving us the very smooth CMBR
    Day 4 God said "he made the stars also" after the expansion by collapsing the wave energy into atoms of hydrogen
    Since we know from Young's experiment a particle's history is written retrospectively back from the moment of measurement by the *MIND* that measured the wave so there is no problem with this occurring 6000 years ago. The history of the stars observed by Adam is real on the day they were made even though he was looking back billions of years it was instantly there for him to see.

  • @sgjosephng
    @sgjosephng 2 года назад +13

    Thank you for the video.
    God created the universe and saw it was good. He set laws for it to sustain efficiently. Nature and the animal kingdom obeys it but some men too prideful, has in general refused to acknowledge Him and His majestic creation, has created a mess and now finding ways trying to diminish His existence and explaining things that are so complicated that sometimes make no sense!
    The way forward is good stewardship towards what God has given us in His creation. Make sure we discover the science and engineering behind to put our stewardship to good use and according to what God has intended it to be!
    May God be the glory!

  • @kuwaitisnotadeployment1373
    @kuwaitisnotadeployment1373 2 года назад +1

    I like this guy

  • @MarkJones-fw3mo
    @MarkJones-fw3mo 8 месяцев назад +1

    I have listened to him many times. Has convinced me of nothing except he should stick to teaching in his field.

  • @jntj3007
    @jntj3007 Год назад

    Thank you Mr. Lennox. God bless.

  • @charlieread
    @charlieread 11 месяцев назад

    Enjoyable and so informative. I'm glad I came across some of your videos!

  • @geobla6600
    @geobla6600 2 года назад +6

    Krauss's idea that non-existent gravity created gravity which in turn created the matter which created gravity which
    then went on to create the billions of galaxies is absurd? If it wasn't for such a large percentage of researchers who
    give their own atheistic beliefs much , much more merit then it deserves , people like Krauss and many others would be
    critically critiqued right out of a job.

  • @greggy553
    @greggy553 Год назад +1

    Hawking didn't makes sense to me, but I thought I just didn't understand. Thank you sir.

  • @tomwaldenofficial
    @tomwaldenofficial 2 года назад

    Enjoyed watching . . . thanks

  • @ronaldmorgan7632
    @ronaldmorgan7632 2 года назад +18

    Science: The method of answering the question--How did God do it?

    • @idontwantacallsign
      @idontwantacallsign 2 года назад +4

      You will never be able to understand it fully. Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has even put eternity in their heart; yet mankind will never find out the work that the true God has made from start to finish.

    • @MrFossil367ab45gfyth
      @MrFossil367ab45gfyth 2 года назад +2

      I agree that science helps us understand God's creation. However, it can't prove nor disprove God.

    • @1969cmp
      @1969cmp 10 месяцев назад

      He spoke the universe into existence, by The Word of God.

  • @steadfastneasy26
    @steadfastneasy26 2 года назад +10

    I could listen to this man read the numbers from the stock exchange.

  • @scottwalker3404
    @scottwalker3404 8 месяцев назад

    A GENIOUS.

  • @tiffanymagee2700
    @tiffanymagee2700 2 года назад +2

    Excellent video! John Lennox's passion for presenting the truth is inspiring!! Well done.

  • @gray41
    @gray41 Год назад +1

    One does not have enough faith to believe it all started by random accident and chaos and we are here today because of all these millions of random perfect accidents. Youd be crazy to believe that

  • @sherrilltechnology
    @sherrilltechnology Год назад

    What a brilliant man, may God continue to bless the words of his mouth!! Very good video!

  • @VerifyTheTruth
    @VerifyTheTruth 2 года назад +2

    In My Opinion, The Best Argument For Intelligent Design Lay In The Formal And Foundational Definitions Of Intelligence And Design.

    • @VerifyTheTruth
      @VerifyTheTruth 2 года назад

      By General Observation, Either, What We Humans Call Universal Nature, Or It's Supernatural Authorship, Is Intelligent Enough To Generate Replicant Sentient Life.

  • @nickip6189
    @nickip6189 10 месяцев назад

    I've always looked at science as being the on going discovery and understanding of God's creation. Simple!

  • @JohnVandivier
    @JohnVandivier 2 года назад +1

    Well done.

  • @jimberezow721
    @jimberezow721 2 года назад +8

    Looks like John has lost some weight. Always love listening to him.

    • @onsenguy
      @onsenguy 2 года назад

      Yes he did lose some weight, with God's help..

  • @chouleanghak5085
    @chouleanghak5085 2 года назад +4

    Thank you, professor Lennox, for all the blessing clarities you've made in debates with the atheists with regard to the existence of God. I really enjoy listening to you. I may be a poor student of one of your students, I'm almost 70 years old now, but still I do not see a value in any of such debates. I mean obviously any attempt to convince the atheists to have faith in God the Creator would seemingly be impossible and perhaps such a debate would likely push them further away. I wonder if the spirit of Satan is behind each and everyone of those atheists starting from Charles Darwin.
    I need to write "this point" again and again. The atheists are obsessed with finding "evidences" when searching for the existence of God the Creator of all things. And I wholeheartedly agree with their rational obsession. For the time being, however, I see no possible way, or argument, to convince any of them of God's existence. I see that they'd go very deep in their atheistic explanation in any of the debate, and I hardly understand their profound findings. So profound that at some point I see instead that it is quite shallow. For example they see all the intelligent designs in all things all around but that still don't convince them.
    In the Bible God said any of His spoken words cannot and will not return to Him void. During the creation of this earth He said "let there be light" and in a second, seemingly, the huge bright sun appeared in the sky. What else did God say that we must heed? His spoken words said this; Christ will return to earth in due time that at those glorious moments "all eyes" will witness His glory. And voila! All atheists eyes will witness the shocking moments and they will immediately and fearfully feel shame. He further said many will run to the mountains and shout to the rocks to fall upon them so that they can be hidden from God's Mighty Face. They cannot bear the immense fear in their hearts at those moments. His spoken words will definitely come to pass. This message should be an eye opener to all atheists out there. This is God's unbroken promise among all other promises. One of His promises to mankind, some 2 thousand years ago, was that He will gather the Jews from all corners of the earth back to their homeland. Israel was erased from the world map for more than 2 thousand years. And now we witness this truth and the Jews are back in their homeland with wonderous and blessed strength in self defense. This message is intended chiefly for all the atheists out there. Hell and Heaven are two different worlds.
    God bless you professor Lennox and family and God bless all who read and heed the warnings of His Second Coming.
    ...

  • @davidticktum6867
    @davidticktum6867 Год назад

    Only just discovered this wonderful man, very intelligent but humble at the same time. Little me, who is nowhere near this man's brain, has been thinking from the time that I could really think that something doesn't come from nothing despite all the scientific spill. Guess that's God giving to all who love Him including brilliant John and little me.

  • @petermatthew123
    @petermatthew123 6 месяцев назад

    John Lennox has a sharp mind & his book Gunning for God (Why the new Atheists are missing the target) is a brilliant analysis of the weaknesses of their arguements & worlview . I still have questions however about his book 7 Days that divide the World which attempts to reconcile evolutionary ideas with the idea of a long-aged earth. His arguments for this & his attempts to reconcile the Genisis account with a frame work idea rather than a consecutive timeline of events 9(i..e 7 24 hr days) seem quite contrived to make it fit. Also he does not discuss the notion that the universe rather than be created by a Creator, has always existed either as matter or energy & is constantly changing over time from one form to another.

    • @mchooksis
      @mchooksis 6 месяцев назад

      I haven't yet read his book, but it is on my very long list of things to read. However, I am slightly put off by your comment "is a brilliant analysis of the weaknesses of their arguments & worldview .". If this is what the book is about, then it must surely be an analysis of a strawman. But it also points to the fact that he simply does not know what an atheist is. An atheist is simply a person who doesn't have a god in their lives because they see no robust evidence for the existence of any god. That's it. Pure and simple. And most atheists have no interest at all in "Gunning for God". Of course they "Miss the target". To an atheist there is no target to aim for.Beyond that any atheists can have hugely different views about any number of topics. Many don't even have any interest in origins of the universe, evolution, or anything scientific at all. Many other atheists are devout followers of other religions and world/spiritual views such as Buddhism, Jainism Shinto, Paganism, wiccan Hinduism and many beliefs of the varied indigenous native cultures around the world .
      Does John cover these as well in his analysis? I cannot see how he could possibly do this in a mere 250 pages. For a book this short, he must be aiming at perceived arguments & worldview that almost no atheist has. Hence the strawman comment above,

  • @cobramcjingleballs
    @cobramcjingleballs 2 года назад

    I would correct him on the fine tuning of the universe while for life, is foremost just to allow stars and atoms to exist....then you can talk about atomic properties like water and carbon that allow life to exist. then impossibility of life existing from chance.

  • @victorcastillo8653
    @victorcastillo8653 6 месяцев назад

    Dios Omnipotente siempre vence AMEN bendiciones

  • @davidmessulam
    @davidmessulam 2 года назад +1

    ❤️

  • @christophercoughlin2886
    @christophercoughlin2886 2 года назад

    Exactly, where does that gravitational law come from?

  • @scoredkoi
    @scoredkoi Год назад +2

    So what I’m hearing is that a quantum vacuum and even laws of nature is nothing more than a God of the gaps

  • @antoniopioavallone1137
    @antoniopioavallone1137 2 года назад +3

    I agree with all he said.

  • @johannabezuidenhout4252
    @johannabezuidenhout4252 9 месяцев назад

    What a great explanation on his profession great man to listen to God bless him!

  • @davidbrock4104
    @davidbrock4104 2 года назад +1

    Excellent

  • @Michaelangelo-eh7bb
    @Michaelangelo-eh7bb Год назад

    I am so happy that you have come to the same conclusion as I have about nothing, since I was a child I have never understood this absolutely absurd argument that so called intellectuals make.

  • @haarychoudrey313
    @haarychoudrey313 11 месяцев назад

    excellent. Thank you!

  • @rfracing9112
    @rfracing9112 11 месяцев назад

    Listen to Richard Carrier

  • @kyle-rv7zd
    @kyle-rv7zd Год назад +3

    Man today's science needs more scientists like this man in a very bad way.

    • @bjhcvuaerpigfy
      @bjhcvuaerpigfy Год назад +3

      he is a mathematician, not a scientist, and knows very little of science. As a mathematician, he does know about probability and he knows that all of the arguments for god based on probability are wrong. Does he come out and say so? Of course not. He is not interested in the truth.

    • @tomgreene1843
      @tomgreene1843 Год назад

      @@bjhcvuaerpigfy Why are they wrong?

  • @ErikPehrsson
    @ErikPehrsson 9 месяцев назад

    “You need the laws of nature.” Ok. But where did those laws come from?? 🤯🤯

  • @a.j.beltran4795
    @a.j.beltran4795 Год назад

    When I was in primary school in the 70s, matter is defined as "anything that has mass and cannot be destroyed nor created".

  • @andrewstidham7950
    @andrewstidham7950 Год назад +1

    I don't believe in a big bang I believe in LET THERE BE LIGHT!

  • @gregorcollins
    @gregorcollins 7 месяцев назад

    Such a gift that we all have such a brilliant man out there doing this all so we don’t have to

  • @tedgrant2
    @tedgrant2 6 месяцев назад

    John Lennox is very comforting.
    His books bring a lot of hope to people.
    And I'm sure his income is very secure indeed.

  • @Notarabbit911
    @Notarabbit911 6 месяцев назад

    I would like to have a one on one conversation with this Lennox , I would shut him up very quickly.

  • @brandonjeeboo
    @brandonjeeboo Год назад

    Brilliant chap GOD BLESS 🙏💯

  • @jimtruscott5670
    @jimtruscott5670 9 месяцев назад +1

    The Genesis version of the beginning and The Big Bang Theory are a little different, Dear Professor Lennox.

  • @jonpayne4319
    @jonpayne4319 4 месяца назад +1

    John Lennox is just fantastic. He’s sharp, on-point and even cheerful too. Such an inspiration.

  • @theother1281
    @theother1281 9 месяцев назад +1

    Is there anything that proves the start of the universe needed a creator? What evidence is there that it isn't a non-intentional natural process?

  • @hmry7615
    @hmry7615 Год назад +4

    One of my favourite passages! God wanted to see what man would call the animals. Beautiful! “And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.“ Genesis 2:19

  • @diddsdaddiddsdad6865
    @diddsdaddiddsdad6865 Год назад +1

    Yes ,there are things that are unknowable and one of them is creation. God of the gaps is alive and well.

  • @lyngruen8607
    @lyngruen8607 5 месяцев назад

    I so very much APPRECIATE this man's clarity of the word....he explains simply and thoroughly. God IS CREATOR OF EVERYTHING ☝️💖😊

  • @stanleykubrick8786
    @stanleykubrick8786 Год назад +1

    Does this mean that Santa Claus will stop bringing us Coca-Cola in plastic bottles?

  • @karel8y
    @karel8y Год назад +1

    The big bang is the earliest known event in the universe history. However, that doesn't imply perse that it was also the absolute beginning of the universe.

    • @rizdekd3912
      @rizdekd3912 Год назад +1

      Indeed, it seems to me what is now called the universe...this expanding existence of matter/energy somehow enmeshed in time/space is just one arrangement or manifestation of the natural world.

  • @urso3000
    @urso3000 2 года назад +6

    In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Only the blind don't want to see.

    • @colinmatts
      @colinmatts 2 года назад +1

      Prove there's a God and that he created anything!

  • @lucienpetrus3851
    @lucienpetrus3851 Год назад

    God is good all the time. Cape Town South Africa SDA 🌍♥️

  • @SajiSNairNair-tu9dk
    @SajiSNairNair-tu9dk 10 месяцев назад

    Substanear ?

  • @gerardobaltodano
    @gerardobaltodano 11 месяцев назад

    El pensamiento racionalista, ese pensamiento simplificador obliga a pensar siempre en un inicio y un fin, sin que necesariamente haya un inicio y un fin. Bajo otras estructuras de pensamiento no racionalista (no se interprete irracionales), no existe ningun inicio ni fin. Por ejemplo en el pensamiento budista. Entonces, todo se reduce a que filosofia ronda tu cabeza?

  • @yayasanpurigading3252
    @yayasanpurigading3252 Год назад

    I am with you Prof John Lennox. It is stupidity say something is product of nothing, whoever says it..

  • @tedgrant2
    @tedgrant2 Год назад +1

    I've got moths in my house and weeds in my garden.
    God is keeping me busy !

  • @AdamosDad
    @AdamosDad Год назад

    God spoke the universe into existence and His voice reverberates even down to the strings.

  • @braamneethling7
    @braamneethling7 9 месяцев назад

    Joni Mitchell said in the sixties that we are carbon stardust etc

  • @stormythelowcountrykitty7147
    @stormythelowcountrykitty7147 11 месяцев назад

    For the algorithm

  • @simwierdsma4882
    @simwierdsma4882 Год назад

    God is in many ways beyond our comprehension the heavens declare his glory.

  • @cornelkittell9926
    @cornelkittell9926 2 года назад

    There is a big problem that we all share. First, of course, is sin, but set that aside. Second, is that the human mind, being in a physical world, can not actually imagine "nothing". We can try, but we always fail. We might think of an eternity of darkness. But that is still something. When our finite mind can not grasp something we turn to other things. It is easier to speculate about a self creating universe that began with gravity (?) than an eternal intelligence that just is. I am that I am.