Dr. Lennox’ book has great value as a source of data pertaining to the interface of science and matters of teleology (ultimate causes and purposes). The array of scientific data that points overwhelmingly to a finely-tuned absolute beginning of the entire universe out of nothing in the Big Bang is decisively addressed in the earlier sections. Yet, not to remain content with the testimony of cosmology, he then delves into both the highly organized and interrelated processes (exceedingly more complex than a human-built factory) found within each living cell, and the meaningful language conveyed by letters in the DNA (whose informational contents in each strand is comparable to the entire set of Encyclopedia Britannica). Since this is a book review I must set aside my positive observations about the engaging manner by which he conducts himself in interviews, lectures, and high-profile public debates, and state in conclusion that Dr. Lennox is especially gifted in reframing complex scientific theories into down-to-earth analogies that the average person is able to comprehend. Far from evading complexity, the process of simplification is what separates truth from sophistry. The capacity to simplify is not to be confused with being juvenile and simplistic. One argument he poses to Richard Dawkins in print (p.189) that favors Intelligent Design is also employed in a public debate where Dawkins is caught in the commission of a double standard by a simple truth that he cannot answer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFD6U8XYhRI).
Saturday, April 20, 2013
"Has Science Buried God?" Part II
A Review of John Lennox. God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (Lion, 2009).
Dr. Lennox’ book has great value as a source of data pertaining to the interface of science and matters of teleology (ultimate causes and purposes). The array of scientific data that points overwhelmingly to a finely-tuned absolute beginning of the entire universe out of nothing in the Big Bang is decisively addressed in the earlier sections. Yet, not to remain content with the testimony of cosmology, he then delves into both the highly organized and interrelated processes (exceedingly more complex than a human-built factory) found within each living cell, and the meaningful language conveyed by letters in the DNA (whose informational contents in each strand is comparable to the entire set of Encyclopedia Britannica). Since this is a book review I must set aside my positive observations about the engaging manner by which he conducts himself in interviews, lectures, and high-profile public debates, and state in conclusion that Dr. Lennox is especially gifted in reframing complex scientific theories into down-to-earth analogies that the average person is able to comprehend. Far from evading complexity, the process of simplification is what separates truth from sophistry. The capacity to simplify is not to be confused with being juvenile and simplistic. One argument he poses to Richard Dawkins in print (p.189) that favors Intelligent Design is also employed in a public debate where Dawkins is caught in the commission of a double standard by a simple truth that he cannot answer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFD6U8XYhRI).
Dr. Lennox’ book has great value as a source of data pertaining to the interface of science and matters of teleology (ultimate causes and purposes). The array of scientific data that points overwhelmingly to a finely-tuned absolute beginning of the entire universe out of nothing in the Big Bang is decisively addressed in the earlier sections. Yet, not to remain content with the testimony of cosmology, he then delves into both the highly organized and interrelated processes (exceedingly more complex than a human-built factory) found within each living cell, and the meaningful language conveyed by letters in the DNA (whose informational contents in each strand is comparable to the entire set of Encyclopedia Britannica). Since this is a book review I must set aside my positive observations about the engaging manner by which he conducts himself in interviews, lectures, and high-profile public debates, and state in conclusion that Dr. Lennox is especially gifted in reframing complex scientific theories into down-to-earth analogies that the average person is able to comprehend. Far from evading complexity, the process of simplification is what separates truth from sophistry. The capacity to simplify is not to be confused with being juvenile and simplistic. One argument he poses to Richard Dawkins in print (p.189) that favors Intelligent Design is also employed in a public debate where Dawkins is caught in the commission of a double standard by a simple truth that he cannot answer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFD6U8XYhRI).
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