I am always hesitant to mix politics and religion and homeschooling. However, as you know, sometimes they become sort of entangled with each other - especially when it comes to the teaching of science in the homeschool setting. John Lennox has a way of showing how Christianity and science are not mutually exclusive ideas.
Quotes from the broadcast:
"Well, as I said to you earlier, it's a question of what is important in life. For me, it's having an integrated worldview. I don't want my science to be in one little compartment that never meets my Christian faith. Either God is the God of the universe and He's the God of my life, or He's nothing. And so, it's having that integration - and also talking to people about it - because, it seems to be perfectly logical, if the Christian faith is true, then it's something you want to share. What could be bigger and more exciting than to introduce people to the God that invented the atom ultimately?"
(During a debate with Richard Dawkins) "The danger of training children to be fanatics by not allowing them to question is a very serious one, and I'm so glad that I had parents who encouraged me to think. And part and parcel of the Christian faith was that thinking."
Now, you asked us to imagine with John Lenin a world without religion. Now, I'd like you to imagine with John Len-NOX a world without athiesm - with no Stalin, with no Mao, with no Pol Pot - to name the heads of the three officially athiestic States. A world with no Gulag, no culture revolution, no killing fields. I think that would be a world worth imagining, too."
"..ethics are worldview-dependent. You will take a very different view of a human being if you believe, for example, that the human cell is simply an agglomeration of complex molecules. You'll take a very different view if you believe, on the other hand, that that cell has all the potential of becoming an adult human being made in the image of God. And what we're going to have to do, it seems to me, is think very hard about the foundation of ethics. Otherwise, people will just say, 'Who said so?..."
"The meaning makes all the difference, and the worldview makes all the difference."
"The resurrection of Jesus Christ a miracle - something supernatural - for me, constitutes the central evidence upon which I base my faith - not only that athiesm is a delusion, but justice is real, and our sense of morality does not mock us."
Listen to The Public Square.
Listen to Dr. Lennox debate Richard Dawkins
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