Seven Days That Divide the World with John Lennox (Video)

My answer to that important question is yes, you can, and this video with Dr. John Lennox will let you in on some of the reasons I think that.

Eric Metaxas and Socrates in the City present an evening with John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, at the Union Club in New York City on January 31, 2013. Dr. Lennox explores a method for reading and interpreting the first chapters of Genesis without discounting either science or Scripture. Afterward Metaxas is heard asking, “Why didn’t I ever have any math teachers like this?”.

Whatever your view, this is a very insightful lecture. It explores the central question…what does Genesis actually say? And then how does our scientific understanding integrate with that reading.

John Lennox: “Seven Days That Divide the World” from Socrates in the City on Vimeo.

Recently, I had the privilege of interviewing Old Testament scholar C. John “Jack” Collins on the Genesis accounts (i.e., days of Genesis) that Dr. John Lennox lectured on. In Lennox’s excellent book, Seven Days That Divide the World, he cites and relies upon the Hebrew exegesis of Dr. Collin’s work. You can find my interview with C. John Collins on the days of Genesis here.

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Summary of Alvin Plantinga’s Updated Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism

“The basic idea of my argument could be put (a bit crudely) as follows. First, the probability of our cognitive faculties being reliable, given naturalism and evolution, is low. (To put it a bit inaccurately but suggestively, if naturalism and evolution were both true, our cognitive faculties would very likely not be reliable.) But then according to the second premise of my argument, if I believe both naturalism and evolution, I have a defeater for my intuitive assumption that my cognitive faculties are reliable. If I have a defeater for that belief, however, then I have a defeater for any belief I take to be produced by my cognitive faculties. That means that I have a defeater for my belief that naturalism and evolution are true. So my belief that naturalism and evolution are true gives me a defeater for that very belief; that belief shoots itself in the foot and is self-referentially incoherent; therefore I cannot rationally accept it. And if one can’t accept both naturalism and evolution, that pillar of current science, then there is serious conflict between naturalism and science.” – Alvin Plantinga

*Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism (p. 314). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.

Is Intelligent Design Science?

In this helpful video, Dr. Stephen Meyer explains the nature of science and then unpacks the definition of intelligent design. There is a lot of confusion about this point and I hope you find this video helpful. You can find out more about Dr. Meyer’s excellent book here.

If you are new to this whole discussion about Science, Evolution, and Intelligent Design and would like an accesible introduction, this is one of the best places to start:

I’ve found the empirical evidence for ID to be impressive and I think it poses a legitimate challenge to Darwinian Evolution. What questions do you have about intelligent design and evolution? Ask them here and we will discuss them in future posts. Have you found this blog helpful? You can have it delivered right to your inbox by signing up here.

What is the origin of digital information found in DNA? (video)

“Information is what runs the show in biology. The question is what is the source of the digital information found in DNA?” Stephen Meyer argues that only intelligence can produce information.

Check out his argument here:

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