God's Undertaker: has science buried God?

2007 John C Lennox – Reader in Maths at Oxford University
ISBN 978 0 7459 5303 8

A Christmas present from my wife, probably the most convincing book I have read about the Creation – Evolution debate. But not for the fainthearted. On the way the book answers various comments made by Richard Dawkins among a host of others. The cover says:

If we believe many modern commentators, science has squeezed God into a corner, killed and then buried him with its all-embracing explanations. Atheism, we are told, is the only intellectually tenable position, and any attempt to reintroduce God is likely to impede the progress of science.

In this stimulating and thought-provoking book, John Lennox invites us to consider such claims very carefully. Is it really true, he asks, that everything in science points towards atheism? Could it be possible that theism sits more comfortably with science than atheism? Has science buried God or not?

The titles of the chapters are:

• War of the worldviews
• The scope and limits of science
• Reduction, reduction, reduction...
• Designer universe
• Designer biospere
• The nature and scope of evolution
• The origin of life
• The genetic code and its origin
• Matters of information
• The monkey machine
• The origin of information

I enjoyed reading this book and will read it again in a little while to let it sink in further. As a seeker after truth, I have the responsibility to educate myself against the false doctrines that are in the world. If God has said that He made everything, which He does, I have a responsibility to deal with any remnants of doubt that may linger, and to align myself totally with everything He tells me. That's precisely why books like this are written.

The day that I realised, through attending a Creationist presentation, that God has done what He says He has done, it was as though something dirty fell away from me; I suddenly felt clean. That speaks volumes.

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