This is Dr Lennox at his best, because of him I feel more comfortable, and you should as well, seeing through the self delusional tendency's in modern non thestic worldview's,

Dr. Lennox explained that so elegantly

Love listening, and trying to keep up with this man. Thanking God for such men as this.

One of the best Christian intellectual minds of our time! Thank God for raising up a Dr. Lennox in the midst of the modern moral, spiritual, and intellectual bankruptcy (eg. neodarwinists).

All you have to do is look around. The creations are so wonderful. Only a God to make the human eye and life.

Love and admire John Lennox......

Mr Lennox is a brilliant mind.....from outside!!

Brilliant mind! Dr.Lennox always shines!

I have come to these very conclusions in my life and it has made me a little angry with those who have insisted on pushing belief in God as a sign of mental instability all the while spouting these ideas that they push as facts to a bunch of lazy thinking people who in turn spout them as facts when in fact these ideas are the ones that are worthy of being regarded as signs of mental instability themselves.

"and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the deep" has always (to me) meant the face of infinity before creation. I'm 73 years young and still can't begin to comprehend nothing or infinity.

The LORD spoke it into existence. I did not have to be there. He was there. That's good enough.

Well done John.

Amen John !! 👍✝️

“Nonsense remains nonsense, even when talked by world-famous scientists.” Sir John Lennox

Properties and laws are true aspects of existing things. They don't create things.

He has a valid point. A scientists " nothing " is not the same as a philosophers " nothing ". Is it possible to have a universe with nothing in it ? No thing, no fields ? There can't be time in a universe incapable of change, nor temperature in one, without baryons to move. Nor radiation, without fields. By that much abused philishave, the Razor of Occam, a universe that couldn't physically communicate it's existence, couldn't be presumed to exist.

“In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.-Hebrews 1:10

Lennox at his best. How do you argue with that?

He made me think I could combine my faith and my studies of science. We need more scientist like him.

This is a man of God

The universe came out of God's mind. God's imagination. And God can pack it all up any time he wants. Praise God!

God made the universe and we should praise him for doing so 🙏🙏

I have nothing in my hand,maybe it will become a whole universe one day !

Dawkings was on tv last night ! So glad of Dr Lennox.

“GOD is not physical but is not nothing” This has always been my stand on GOD but we have a problem with people personifying the figure of God. It creates all sorts of issues mainly the fact that it lowers god to our own level and hence to our own flaws.

Just a thought, where did all the plants, grass , trees etc come from. We are told all creatures came from a single organism and then evolved into different species. I can't recall anything about the plants etc.

Everything comes from something ⛷️

Nobody mentions the Hedron collider. What happened, what did it find and how much spent?

We hate nonsense, okay. But, it doesn't mean we love speculation.

In the quantum realm, something really can emerge from nothing. In theory, the Schwinger effect states that in the presence of strong enough electric fields, (charged) particles and their antiparticle counterparts will be ripped from the quantum vacuum, empty space itself, to become real.

We really have no effing idea what life is all about and we never will so relax and make the best of the time you have.

A recently deceased Italian philosopher, E. Severino, judges nihilistic the doctrine of creation because it refers to nothingness (creatio ex nihilo), while according to him, nothingness does not exist. It is true that outside of being, nothing exists. But being is not only eternal and necessary; therefore, it is worth noting that outside of eternal and immutable being, there exists contingent, mutable, and temporal being. Severino has the concept of ipsum Esse, and with this, we can say that he has the correct concept of the essence of God. However, then, by identifying being as being, with ipsum Esse, he loses sight of the fact that contingent being is created by necessary being. He does not realize that producing being from nothingness is the proper act of ipsum Esse and that the concept of creating as creatio ex nihilo is not contradictory at all; it does not involve the confusion of being with non-being, but it is the passage from possible being to actual being. Nothingness is non-being, but it exists as an entity of reason: it is thought and expressed with the term "nothing," on which we all agree, a term that everyone understands what I mean, a notion of very easy comprehension, so much so that even children understand it. But the concept of creation is not accepted because it reminds us of that Christian God who abandoned himself to assume the god of Parmenides. The comparison between Emanuele Severino and Giacomo Leopardi is interesting. Both stumble upon the problem of the relationship between the necessary and the contingent and therefore on the relationship of being with nothingness. Faced with the problem of becoming, that is, of the contingent, they do not know how to apply the principle of causality and found the contingent, that is, the world, on the existence of the necessary, that is, God. Severino, faced with Leibniz's famous question "why is there something rather than nothing?" would react in two opposite senses. Severino would observe that it is not a matter of asking why being exists since it exists by itself. As for Leopardi, he would say, "what is certain is that nothingness exists." Regarding the entity, which is purely contingent and corruptible, it has no reason for Leopardi; it exists, begins, ends, and that's it. It is neither preceded nor caused by a first, absolute, and necessary being. Because for him only the contingent exists. However, Leibniz's question is not well formulated; the real problem is not "why is there something?" but "why is there contingent being?" Being, as it also embraces the absolute, exists necessarily. Here Parmenides and Severino are right. What needs to be explained, instead, is why the contingent exists, which does not have in itself the reason for its own existence. So while Severino affirms being by excluding the contingent, which seems contradictory and nihilistic to him, Leopardi sees only the contingent suspended in nothingness, which he absolutizes without fearing the contradiction of admitting a contingent without foundation in the necessary. In reality, we must not put ourselves in the place of God, refusing to trust in God, deciding what the truth is, and refusing to humbly conform to the truth of His self and of God. The Catholic Church has the task of adapting, serving as a bridge between these two measures, these two banks (as Wittgenstein would say) between the ideal and the real, between the infinite and the contingent. One cannot have God as Father if one does not have the Church as Mother, said St. Cyprian.

My comment is gone. Sure would be good to know what was unacceptable about it...

Since Einstein all physicists believe: Matter is not made of matter, now we have to define what is energy?

Thank you for sharing!

We will never know

Perfect ... One can not comprehend God, who is the one who can not be confined by physics laws. Because he keep creating any thing any moment continuously.

That which is asserted without evidence can and will be dismissed without evidence.

Nothing can do nothing ... prove me wrong!!!! Life always comes from life.

It is clearly obvious that we cannot see what has caused the universe So for the moment it could be anything including the mind of a much higher intellect.

A Lot of answers can come from other Life out there!

I LOVE JOHN LENNOX!!

Lennox is 100% correct, the argument that “science simply hasn’t evolved sufficiently to explain the possibility a universe created from nothing” cannot possibly stand because it either relies on…. a) it’s possible to create something from nothing without a cause in a physical universe or b) the universe itself is eternal. The question is…. “existence from non-existence”….. from “non-existence to existence” implies cause. The fault with a physical cause is….. you need an ultimate cause and no matter how many times a cause is put forth, each possible cause needs its own cause to the point where you exhaust possible causes because a cause had to pre-exist all other causes in order to bring existence out of non-existence…. So that argument fails. With an eternal universe, (which incidentally has been abandoned by most scientists)😢….. falls flat because matter cannot create matter. So we are left with a number of facts…. First, we exist, otherwise we could not be having this conversation (self evident) and second, something was responsible for existence. It seems, since we eventually, end up running out of all possible causes, there needs to be something eternal in the equation in order to provide a cause…. Yes, Lenox is 100% correct, the cause is found in Genesis 1….. “In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth”

Oxford Languages definition of 'thing':"an object that one need not, cannot, or does not wish to give a specific name to." No thing! Denying that a thing exists by naming it does not give it existence.

2:28 If Dr. Lennox wanted to be facetious, he could have called Peter Akins a neo-Pythagorean and asked him why he was a afraid to eat beans.

Well that's that then - if John said it it must be true. He knows everything. No need to question anything anymore. John knows. Just ask John.

IN THE BEGINNING…..GOD CREATED EVERYTHING,AMEN🙏❤️

I mean, what have you got to lose? You know, you come from nothing You're going back to nothing What have you lost? Nothing 😉🤭

Nonsense is Nonsense even if it comes from a scientist 🤔 I hope everyone heard and understood that 🙏🏾

"Thoughts" and The concept of God Usage of the word "Thought" in this post is taken to mean anything that is part of a humans conscious experience. Under this definition a sound heard is a thought as much the thoughts going to solve a mathematical puzzle. Based on the above definition it can be said that all of humanities knowledge consist of "thoughts". For anything to be known by a human it must become a "thought". In the context of such a definition of "thoughts" The set of all "thoughts" would fit the concept of God. If you accept Mathematical Platonism then God would exist The concept of God entails a single entity that has the following properties Wisdom: The set of all thoughts will contain the perfect answer to every possible question Infinitude: The set of all thoughts will have an infinite amount of thoughts Sovereignty: There can be no thought that is not an element of the set of thoughts Omniscience:The set of all thought is all knowing as it contains all thoughts.

@4:14 that quote is in the introduction of the book. It is confirmed philosophic drivel 😂

I got halfway in and couldn't take any more. Lennox presents bad arguments confidently with a charming accent.

Erst einmal muss man theoretisch überprüfen, ob es tatsächlich, so wie es Prof Dr Steven Hawking behauptet hat, abzählbar unendlich viele Parallel Universen gibt. Danach kann man sich dieser Frage zuwenden..

Can't have gravity without mass and energy.

Zoom out forever and you’ll get the answer.

Nothing is something being nothing....there has got to be something even if it's nothing🤔❓

I don't know. Neither do you.

It began when the lamps were switched on. It will end when they are switched off. You have no way of knowing if what you observe is truly as it appears, or if your reality is rendered in real-time. What you do know is the plank constant for time and space. That is the bit density.

people should tell joe rogan to invite him to his podcast

Questions for atheists: 1) How can the complex human brain be a product of time, chance and matter? 2) What about "thought"? if its a product of evolution, how can we trust our thoughts? 3) What about morality? If its a product of evolution, WHEN and WHO got together to lay down a standard moral law to protect us from each other? 4) If Truth is subjective, why do we all need to obey the courts and police?

The problem is the concept of a start and an end. This forces the thought process to explain a start. The universe has no start and will have no ending. Maths proves it. There is no absolute low number as we can always subtract 1 from the lowest number.

Radio waves opps i was thinking about something else.. vibrations

What is Reality? Not a Thing, but not nothing, simply No-Thing. What is No-Thing? 🙏 Rorri Maesu says useaMirroR 🙏

NOTHING is a compound word NO-THING = nothing exists ... so here we have the theory that CREATION comes out of NO-THING ..

And where does nothing come from ?

Scientific mind's faith is science. It is a belief, and it cannot save one soul.

Hebrews 11:3 KJVS Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. 1 Timothy 6:20 KJVS O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

nobody knows

Only God knows. But could you imagine when there was no time or dimension and that two spiritual Identics, non-physical, non-gender, existed in a timeless non -physical state of non-existence? Now back to the question, to what took place so many billions of years back.

Ide like to know if God did create it all which God was it 🙏

You cannot use reason to justify faith. They are polar opposites. It is logically impossible to reconcile reason and faith. The concept of faith itself carries a ‘built in’ depreciation of reason; and without this anti-reason element, the concept of faith is rendered meaningless.

When believing that a human can be born without a father.

Does it matter? Do something useful. VOTE.

Maybe there’s more to nothing than we think.

God's way of creating is to "speak in existence"

I get my science from the New Testament. Nothing that is seen came from anything that is visible (Hebrews 11:3) God created the world through Jesus Christ (the preexistent *_invisible_* Word of God - John 1:1-2). Nothing is visible without light (Ephesians 5:13) God said “Let there be light” on the first day of Creation (Genesis 1:3). *_Jesus Christ is the Light of the world_* (John 8:12).

It was impossible for the Universe to create itself from nothing. There was an intelligent creative force that created everything.

Man, himself is finite. His soul may be immortal, but his body isn't, and he knows it. For this reason alone, he projects his own finitude onto the entire universe, because he doesn't understand it, the same way he anthropomorphizes everything else in his world.

Postulating "God" does nothing to relieve the mystery, and in fact would make it worse. "God" could not get away without needing a further explanation, any more than subatomic particles. Our universe shows too much incompetence and indifference for "God" to be credible. What then? The origin of the universe is a physics lesson, not a Bible story, but physics is not currently up to the job, and possibly may never be. Science disdains philosophy and speculation, but for the time being, it is really all that we have. Our universe is fantastically crazy, which is maybe a key driver of creation. We are helpless. Our human language and our most basic concepts simply do not provide the tools to understand. What caused time to start? Does a "cause" not require time to already exist, since a "cause" must precede its "effect" in time? If the past were infinite, then what could have caused an infinite series of events to exist? While "cause-and-effect" works fine in everyday life, the concept runs into problems at the limits. We probably have to allow for the possibility of totally "causeless" events. What is the definition of "nothing"? In a reality of total nothingness, there is no such thing as a "definition". There would be no language, no words, or symbols. But to say that "nothing" is "that which has no definition" IS providing a definition. Probably, our reality was spawned by such ridiculous paradox and contradiction. Behind even any explanation in particle physics or quantum mechanics, such considerations still exist. Even the laws of physics require further explanation for their seemingly arbitrary existence.

Ultra instinct eternal Shaggy the creator of the universe.

Once you latch onto an idea, you milk it out for all it's worth whether you understand what you're doing or not.

How did a 'mind' with the intelligence and power to create the universe just happen to exist? I think this is far more difficult to explain than 'matter' either coming into existence or just happening to exist, don't you?

Shock revelation : The universe had a beginning. Over 3000 years ago, an ancient writer said so. (Gen 1 :1)

I can't quite decide whether Lennox looks smug or just happy? He's filled with faith I suppose and it's called faith for a reason

Does a tree understand it's existence? No. There is nothing without our limited perceptions.

Our local universe is a contraction of the eternal Cosmos, which always existed. One day John might consider that hypothesis or continue to cling to his belief in a creator god.

It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

To all the skeptics that “don’t know”, it’s called FAITH! EVIDENCE of things NOT SEEN. Evidence! Evidence! Evidence!

there is no such thing as nothing, the only being that truly exists is G-D, everything emerged from him

If something cannot come from nothing, then you have to say that nothing came from something. Because both states exist.

We live in an eternal reality. There is no beginning and no end. It is and has been and will be forever. But, the Grand Universe is not infinite. It is eternal but continues to expand and grow as Creator Sons of the Order of Michael continue to create and earn the sovereignity of the universes they make. The first certificates to enable the creation of our local universe were issued over 900 billion years ago. Read the Urantia Book to get a gist of what is what and Who is Who in the amazing, miraculous reality we are conscious in.

Yes, it came from "no thing". Rest. That rest has substance. Think about it.

Believers love to put their god in immature places of understanding. It's a favourite tactic to sell a god that can't sell itself, and simultaneously keeps the ignorant, longing masses locked in.

Nothing can come out of nothing. Einstein's relativity formula would explain how this Universe was created.

Which prompts the further question, where did God come from ?

Universe; the cause of Universe; the cessation of Universe; and the way to the cessation of Universe have all been declared by the Tathāgata** as appearing within the six-foot-long living body with perception and mind. **The Buddha

It is not just the argument of the origin but also the sustainability. How the universe being sustained in such stable state despite of enormous explosions, condensations and expansions. It is only because it is being designed. We can explain things we can see but we cannot definitely explain the origins of every things around the universe.

Since John Lennox doesn't believe in calvanism, maybe he can explain how the universe came into existence without it choosing to accept its creation.

God created everything 🙏.

No.