Science and Faith

It was great to be part of the Zoom meeting, organised by Grasping the Nettle, when the guest speaker was the excellent Professor John Lennox. Along with Stephen Meyer, James Tour and several others, Professor Lennox has become a formidable Christian voice, arguing from sound scientific principles.

He demonstrates that, contrary to the notion that scientific discovery and belief in a Creator (or Intelligent Designer), are at odds with each other, that so many scientific discoveries point unmistakably to the agency of a powerfully intelligent mind.

Sticking fairly rigidly to his own discipline of mathematics, John reminded us that the DNA within the human genome consisted of an intelligible code of 3.4 billion characters, all set in an ordered sequence. If any of the letters in that sequence was out of place, the information would be defective.

Add this together with the fine tuning of the laws of physics, to incredibly fine parameters, to permit life to exist on earth, and the acknowledged deficiency of standard macro evolutionary theory, to account for the information required to form new body plans.

The days of denial regarding the participation of an almighty, powerful, transcendent agent, in the formation of the universe, have come to an end. Time for our young people to be enlightened to the current state of play.

Alex Glen , Glasgow