Dawkins then argues that science supports atheism, not Christianity. He was influenced by Darwinism and the ideas of Charles Darwin. Scientific methods are the only way to check the truth. Miracles are an important one where the virgin birth of Jesus from Mary lacks DNA and logical evidence. There is no evidence to support the God hypothesis.
Lennox on the other hand asserts that science undermines atheism. Science believes in a rational intelligibility of the universe, it recognises laws. Atheism sees man and his intelligence as cobbled together by the universe. Why should we rely therefore on man’s conclusion he says. He says that evolution is logically incoherent. He says that theism is the reason for the possibility of science because God is responsible for the human mind. We are made in the image of God. The fine tuning, a definite beginning, there are things found in genesis and now accepted by science.
Dawkins then moves onto the question of, if God created the world, then who created God? He also says that design is dead. He says there are 6 constants so fine tuned that if they moved even a small amount life would not exist on earth. To therefore suggest that God did this he calls a futile explanation because we have to ask who brought God into being. Some have abandoned the idea of design and turned to the anthropic principle, but that in itself is unsatisfying. If we were going to explain complexity then an assertion that God was always there, it’s a not really an explanation.
Lennox agreed to the anthropic principle just states what it is, and doesn’t therefore doesn’t explain how that replicator came to exist in the first place. Christians don’t believe in a designer who was created, but rather an uncreated God. A created God by definition is a delusion. God is eternal, whereas the universe came to exist, he did not. God is an unmoved mover and an uncaused causer. Explanations in science are usually in terms of increasing complexity, simplicity isn’t the only criteria of truth. An archaeologist for example goes into a cave and sees two scratches on a wall and says it’s an ancient symbol, which proves the existence of intelligent human life. In the same way that Dawkins believes the universe is its own explanation, so consider a page of writing. The message is not in the explanation of the paper and ink but rather in the mind of the creator.
He concludes by saying that if Dawkins is happy to accept the theory of everything in cosmology as tenable; able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection, then why will he not accept God as a creator?
Dawkins and Lennox share contrasting views and their views are parallel to one another. Their thoughts never converge neither do they interact.
BY
MOHAMED
ILLYAS