Looking forward to the release of the one-night-only movie Against the Tide, philosopher of science Stephen Meyer sat down with the film’s star, Oxford mathematician John Lennox, to talk about Lennox’s life and his thoughts on the ultimate question: Does the universe bear a “stamp” indicating the guidance of a designing intelligence? Lennox’s answer is yes. As they discuss, he has spent a lifetime arguing as much. It is a wonderful conversation that you can see here: https://youtu.be/zD50_1kicw4
Reserve your tickets
for the event, in theaters across the country, at the Against the Tide website.
It releases on November 19 and you can only see it that one night!
Meyer and Lennox sweep away the misconception that there is a
conflict between science and God. The truth is otherwise but it is veiled by a
“power play and an authority play,” says Lennox, by the most aggressive
atheists. In reality, there is a debate between theism and atheism over
the question “Where does science point?” The power play consists of framing the
issue in order to twist it to one side’s advantage. Theists and atheists commit
themselves to opposite views on the question, but neither operates outside of a
particular picture of reality in which they place their faith. “Every single
person is a person of faith,” as Professor Lennox says.
Three Scientific Realizations
As Dr. Meyer sets out in detail in his next book, Return
of the God Hypothesis, three scientific realizations of the past
century have revealed the stamp of design. They are that the universe had a
beginning, that it is fine-tuned for life beyond any otherwise reasonable
expectation, and that life is infused with information. From the implications
of this, atheists avert their eyes.
Against the Tide is an unusual and very
well done mix of life story, science, and travelogue. Lennox is a great
personality. He has both learned from and debated some of the greatest minds,
theists and atheists alike — from C. S. Lewis to Fred Hoyle to Richard Dawkins.
He traveled extensively behind Iron Curtain, where, as he tells Meyer, he noted
an irony. The very universities from which tenured atheists inveigh against
theism were themselves Christian inventions. Under Communism, universities were
turned into state-controlled machines for propagandizing the populace. If the
most rigid atheists and materialists in the West carried the day, the same fate
might well await their own universities. We’re getting a taste of that
particular power play with the current tide of “soft totalitarianism” in our
own country.
I am not going to try to further summarize this fascinating discussion.
Do treat yourself by watching it now!
https://evolutionnews.org/2020/10/meyer-lennox-against-the-tide-sweeps-away-atheist-power-play/
