John Lennox famous quotes

04-17-2025

I've learned to distinguish between the greatness of God and the inexcusable evil that has been done by those professing his name. And so I do not deduce [as Christopher Hitchens does] that God is not great, and that religion poisons everything. After all, if I failed to distinguish between the genius of Einstein and the abuse of his science to create weapons of mass destruction, I might be tempted to say science is not great, and technology poisons everything.
-- John Lennox

#Technology #Greatness #Names
I've got a telescope in my garden and one of the things I love to do is go out and let the sky, the night sky, the galaxies, the Orion nebula, have an impact on my mind. I find that awe inspiring. And just to contemplate on what the astronomers have revealed to us about the immense size and so on of the universe. I find that very healthy. And it's a good thing to do.
-- John Lennox

#Night #Garden #Impact
Faith is not a leap in the dark; itâ€™s the exact opposite. Itâ€™s a commitment based on evidenceâ€¦ It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avoiding intelligent discussion.
-- John Lennox

#Commitment #Dark #Intelligent
Describing beauty is almost impossible because we perceive it, rather than describe it. If you look at a Rembrandt painting and start to try and describe what the beauty is you see, your words sound absolutely pathetic.
-- John Lennox

#Trying #Sound #Looks
We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the work of an intelligent agent. How much more likely, then is the existence of an intelligent Creator behind human DNA, the colossal biological database that contains no fewer than 3.5 billion "letters the longest "word" yet discovered?"
-- John Lennox

#God #Intelligent #Dna
I usually have a very clear idea of where I want a song to go, sometimes very specific notes, but I'm generally open to suggestions.
-- John Lennox

#Song #Ideas #Suggestions
In conclusion, I submit that, far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.
-- John Lennox

#Results #Buried #Existence
The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure [science] fiction. Theories and laws do not bring matter/energy into existence. The view that they nevertheless somehow have the capacity seems a rather desperate refuge...from the alternative possibility...Trying to avoid the clear evidence for the existence of a divine intelligence behind nature, atheist scientists are forced to ascribe creative powers to less and less credible candidates like mass/energy and the laws of nature.
-- John Lennox

#Atheist #Clever #Views
Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light
-- John Lennox

#Light #People #Atheism
Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by when said by world-famous scientists.
-- John Lennox

#World #Nonsense #Scientist
I'm not John Lennon. I'm John Lennox. Now, 'imagine a world without' Stalin. The New Atheists are often silent about [the wrong done by atheists].
-- John Lennox

#Atheist #Done #World
Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second.
-- John Lennox

#People #Matter #Firsts
Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an a priori materialism.
-- John Lennox

#Atheist #Atheism #Firsts
Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.
-- John Lennox

#Capacity #Given #Relationship With God

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