God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?
by John Lennox
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Author: John LennoxEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-13
ISBN: 082546188X
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Lion Books
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Book Review: Brilliant, scholarly, well argued from science not rhetoric
Summary: 5 Stars
Lennox does an expert job at synthesizing the available scientific research to present an outstanding review of the conclusions.
Of import:
Lennox sees science as being unable to answer existential questions: see pg 176 - 179: "Scientific analysis cannot give us the answer" and "science may be able to point towards the conclusion that there is a purpose behind the cake; but precisely what that purpose is, science cannot tell us." and "... these are things that the natural sciences cannot tell us ... However, as with so many other things beyond the competence of science, this does not mean that there is no evidence ..." [an example not in the book is love: science cannot prove it's existence, it can only observe the evidence of it, but we know it exists].
I recommend reading the book. Focus on the observational scientific evidence used to guide a discussion on structures (both in molecular biology and cosmology) that cannot give any other answer than that of being intentionally designed that way in an irreducible construct that requires other structures to simultaneously exist in order to function. Ergo, evolution being ruled out as to the origin of said structures. Furthermore, Lennox lays out a cogent argument from scientific rules that information cannot be derived from inert or biological physical material ... and the origin of this information which is required for natural processes to occur science has yet to answer.
The existential implications of what that means is discussed in the epilogue; however as has already been mentioned in this post and in reference to the book's argument, this is not within the realm of science to answer and in fact is incapable of answering.
Lennox references several former atheist philosophers and scientists as well as those who are theists who have looked at the complexity of bilogical, chemical, and cosmological structures and have concluded that they could not have evolved. He contrasts those opinions with philosophers and scientists who look at the very same evidence and claim there is nothing to indicate that they did not evolve. As Lennox states, "Both views cannot be right." (p 175).
The physical evidence is the same for both camps. So why the difference? Lennox offers an opinion as follows: "... reluctance on the part of some scientists to make a design inference from the existence of information-rich biomolecules has less to do with science than it has to do with the implications of the design inference ... It is, therefore, a worldview issue ... [atheistic] scientists seem to be perfectly happy to make (scientific) design inferences to human or even alien agency; so the difficulty certainly does not lie in our capacity to make design inferences as such." (p 170.)
Again, science cannot answer existential questions about its observations. It can only tell us what could not possibly have happened: spontaneous evolution of life from pond chemicals, and the evolution of a simple organism to a more complex one, or of one type of organism to another. The information within chemicals, a simple organism, or a type required to support these theories of converting from one form to another did not exist within any of these three physical entities in order to enable them to change to a different mode of existence. Science dictates that in order for these theories to be true, information would have had to be added to the physical entities. Science dictates that physicality cannot produce additional information on its own that didn't already exist within itself (e.g., mutations and genetic copying errors actually decrease information, not add to it). A bird can grow a longer or shorter beak because it already has the information within it to do so ("micro"-evolution). A bird cannot change into a dinosaur because that would require adding information that it does not have, and a monkey cannot change into a human for the same reason ("macro"-evolution).
Summary of God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?
A world-renowned scholar of profound intellect refutes the strident accusations from polemic scientists who assert the indisputable proof of God's final demise.Science & Religion Books
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