Meaning Of Life: Richard Dawkins And John Lennox

Introduction:

Each person develops their own ideologies about the world around us. The debate between Professor Richard Dawkins; a biologist who is a firm believer in the theory of natural selection as proposed by Charles Darwin; and Professor John Lennox; a mathematician who is a devout Christian that believes in God the creator; is a prime example of the vast difference that exists between some of these ideologies. The main topic of the debate is whether our understanding of science has made the belief in God irrelevant and questions the existence in a controlling and creating deity. This paper summarizes the main arguments made by Dawkins and Lennox in order to get an overall understanding of their own beliefs and ways of thinking. The development

He gives an example that the meaning of life would mean the propagation of genes to a biologist. He states that each person has a purpose and achievement they want to complete.

Lennox’s main arguments:

John Lennox is a Christian, meaning that he believes in the occurrence of the events described in the bible and the existence of God the creator. The main belief of Lennox is that there is a conscious mind behind the entire cosmos and the laws of science. Lennox describes that God plays part through means of being an agent and not the mechanism itself and that there is no reason one can argue away the existence of an agent by showing a mechanism.

Lennox arguments that the intricacy of the pure existence of sciences such as the origin of life, the existence of the laws of physics and the language of DNA shows intelligent design, further stating that language is a mind driven concept and there is no other conceivable way of generation. On the theory of evolution, Lennox arguments that even though his watch is blind and automatic, its sophistication shows us that there is intelligent design behind