12 January 2013

Lennox

A recent review of a book on the 7 days of creation (I thought it was 6, but there you go) by John Lennox addressed his disdain for the reliability of the information we have in Genesis.

Lennox is a very active debater, and a very engaging speaker as well. He is one of the current darlings of the Sydney Anglican TE crowd, likely because he endorses their uncritical acceptance of evolution as though it was a technical matter, equivalent to bicycle repair!

Lennox and those like him, however, as one of the comments on the review article pointed out, denies that God's self-disclosure about his creating has any content. I wonder what he thinks it's for then? Then in an absurd irony, he accepts that God created, but not any of the information that God gives us to show that he created!

So, how does Lennox know that God created, if the information in Genesis is incorrect?

Then, on the other hand, how does Lennox know (KNOW) that Genesis 1 is conterfactual? As another commenter pointed out, evolutionary rhetoric itself relies on a set of beliefs, not on anything to do with knowledge; a set of beliefs whose only job is to overturn the idea of creation and install a world picture that makes material primary.