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    God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

    By John C Lennox

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    Evaluates the evidence of modern science in relation to the debate between the atheistic and theistic interpretations of the universe, and provides a fresh basis for discussion. The book has grown out of the author's lengthy experience of lecturing and debating on this subject in the UK, USA, Germany and Russia, and has been written in response to endless requests for the argumentation in written form.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLion Books
    Release dateSep 1, 2009
    ISBN9780745959115
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    God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?
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    John C Lennox

    John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College. He lectures on Faith and Science for the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He has lectured in many universities around the world, including Austria and the former Soviet Union. He is particularly interested in the interface of Science, Philosophy and Theology. Lennox has been part of numerous public debates defending the Christian faith. He debated Richard Dawkins on "The God Delusion" in the University of Alabama (2007) and on "Has Science buried God?" in the Oxford Museum of Natural History (2008). He has also debated Christopher Hitchens on the New Atheism (Edinburgh Festival, 2008) and the question of "Is God Great?" (Samford University, 2010), as well as Peter Singer on the topic of "Is there a God?" (Melbourne, 2011). John is the author of a number of books on the relations of science, religion and ethics. He and his wife Sally live near Oxford.

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    • 4/5
      Strong on the physical evidence for the anthropic principle but basically opposed to the theory of what he calls macroevolution. He is very good on the philosophical background to modern thought and says it is inclined to materialism and thus against theism. He shows that natural selection can hardly to be used to account for the developments of anything before reproduction began so proteins and DNA are hard to account for. He does not face the evidence for evolution from more primitive species in the detail of the genome, something that other writers accept as proof of macroevolution. Likes quoting other scientists who are sceptical of evolution but explains their views thoroughly. I hope they are as significant as he says, certainly it was interesting to see that quite a lot of experts don't take evolution as the easy answer for everything that has happened.
    • 5/5
      The strongest worldview changing book I have ever read. I feel so dumb about the person I was before reading the thoughts of John C. Lennox.

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    • 5/5
      Lennox carefully pieces together the case for not just a defence of God, but the necessity of an intelligent designer (such as the revealed Hebrew/Christian God). He considering the limits of science and how scientism is raging, he then considers objections from cosmology, physics, biology, and information theory that each show why there are extremely good grounds for doubting macro-evolution or evolution as the means by which life itself came to be. Instead he shows how it is much more plausible to see the hand of an intelligent designer at work. Throughout he quotes from distinguished international scientists, though sometimes these quotes are rather old and I wonder if they are still relevant. Assuming he is quoting accurately (which in my experience he seems to be for Dawkins), then those by themselves are strong evidence that the scientific community is nowhere near as happy with all aspects of evolution, as we've been led to believe. There are some places where he goes on too long, or introduces unnecessary asides, but hopefully these can be corrected in a future edition. Highly recommended for anyone wanting to know how the New Atheists are over-reaching, or where Intelligent Design has a space to play.

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    • 2/5
      A little too turgid and ranty - much like the author if you've seen him present.