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81 " Whether you believe in Jesus, Buddha, the Beatles, crystals, mother earth, or anything else that takes your interest, all are held to be on the same footing; all have equal validity for the relativist. "
― John C. Lennox , Against the Flow: The Inspiration of Daniel in an Age of Relativism
82 " It would be a pity if, in a desire (rightly) to treat the Bible as more than a book, we ended up treating it as less than a book by not permitting it the range and use of language, order, and figures of speech that are (or ought to be) familiar to us from our ordinary experience of conversation and reading. "
― John C. Lennox , Seven Days That Divide The World: The Beginning According To Genesis & Science
83 " But in some quarters the very success of science has also led to the idea that, because we can understand the mechanisms of the universe without bringing in God, we can safely conclude that there was no God who designed and created the universe in the first place. "
― John C. Lennox , God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?
84 " Judah had failed to grasp that God’s loyalty to his own character, and therefore to his own creatures, has serious implications. Some of Judah’s leaders had fallen into thinking that, because their nation had been chosen to play a special role for God in history, it did not really matter how the leaders or the nation behaved. This was dangerously irresponsible and undermined the moral fibre of the people, because it led to the rationalization of corrupt and immoral behaviour that was incompatible with the law of God, albeit widely practised in the surrounding nations. "
85 " We can therefore express the major elements in the New Atheists’ agenda as follows: Religion is a dangerous delusion: it leads to violence and war. We must therefore get rid of religion: science will achieve that. We do not need God to be good: atheism can provide a perfectly adequate base for ethics. "
― John C. Lennox , Gunning for God: A Critique of the New Atheism
86 " Man thinks he can become God. But infinitely greater than that is the fact that God thought of becoming human. "
― John C. Lennox , 2084: Artificial Intelligence, the Future of Humanity, and the God Question
87 " This brings us to a key issue that is very easily overlooked. It is this. Faith in God certainly is a delusion, if God does not exist. But what if God does exist? Then atheism is the delusion. So the real question to ask is: does God exist? "
88 " Beware of anyone who interprets pain caused by natural evil as a divine punishment. But equally, beware also of anyone who says that God has nothing to say through this pandemic, particularly to Western societies that have largely turned their back on him as culturally irrelevant. "
― John C. Lennox , Where is God in a Coronavirus World?
89 " Richard Feynman emphasized that one should always be careful to record all the evidence against one’s theories; indeed, one should bend over backwards to consider it, since the easiest person to fool is oneself. "
90 " But it is no new idea. It has been around for centuries. ‘In the beginning was the Word… all things were made by him’ wrote the apostle John, author of the fourth Gospel. The Greek for ‘Word’ is Logos, a term that was used by Stoic philosophers for the rational principle behind the universe and subsequently invested with additional meaning by Christians, who used it to describe the second person of the Trinity. The term ‘Word’ itself conveys to us notions of command, meaning, code, communication – thus information; as well as the creative power needed to realize what was specified by that information. "
91 " El efecto ventajoso de la creencia religiosa y la espiritualidad sobre la salud mental y física es uno de los secretos mejor guardados en la psiquiatría y la medicina en general. "
92 " Harari thinks that physical death has been reduced to a mere technical problem that is ripe for solution by medical science.6 In other words, he thinks that within the not too distant future, although we may die, we shall not have to die. A “cure” for death will be found. As if death were a disease – but is it? I would not be so sure for reasons that will appear later. At any rate, this claim seems very far-fetched. "
93 " THE BOOK OF GENESIS is foundational for the rest of the Bible. Its opening chapter does something of incalculable importance: it lays down the basis of a biblical worldview.1 It gives to us humans a metanarrative, a big story into which our lives can be fitted and from which they can derive meaning, purpose, and value. This chapter is devoted to that big story. "
94 " [...] a view that we call "scientism" : and that is that science is the only way to truth, now that is just logically false, because the statement "science is the only way to truth" is not a statement of science, so if it's true, it's false. Perhaps it's too late at night for logic like that is it ?[watch?v=lf1T8ouVQ-g - 14m50] "
― John C. Lennox
95 " Your worldview will make a difference to how you react to disasters like the coronavirus pandemic, and to earthquakes or tsunamis. "
96 " Here is the problem with our natural response to God’s future judgment: we welcome God’s intervention only so long as it is an intervention in the lives of others and not in ours. "
97 " The coronavirus is evidence that both our relationship with creation and creation’s relationship with us are disordered; and that this is not an accident "
98 " When life seems predictable and under control, it is easy to put off asking the big questions, or to be satisfied with simplistic answers. But life is not that way right now—not for any of us. It is not surprising that, whatever your faith or belief system, the big questions of life are breaking through to the surface, demanding attention "
99 " The big question to be faced is: How can an ethical dimension be built into an algorithm that is itself devoid of heart, soul, and mind? "
100 " Richard Feynman emphasized that one should always be careful to record all the evidence against one’s theories; indeed, one should bend over backwards to consider it, since the easiest "