GOD’S UNDERTAKER
Has science buried God?
By John Lennox. Lion Hudson. 192 pages. £8.99
ISBN 978-0-7459-5303-8
The media attention and profile given to Professor Richard Dawkins’s tract The God Delusion has put Christians under great pressure in the public arena in the last year. All who believe in God have been branded as mindless nincompoops by the Oxford atheist.
But the truth is that we are not nincompoops at all as this very fine book by John Lennox clearly shows. Has science buried God? To this question, this Reader of Mathematics at Oxford gives a resounding ‘No’ and provides compelling reasons why. I suppose this is one of the most refreshing and impressive characteristics of the book. Whereas Dawkins’s attack on faith is packed with frantic rhetoric and derogatory comments, Lennox is measured, careful and full of sweet reason.
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