Oxford mathematician educates atheists

Prof Lennox demolishes atheists on a number of fronts. Watch him speak at the Oxford Union Debating society.

Saw this video a few weeks back...

Beeno, people get completely lost. It's why I always try to draw them into the conversation via philosophy. 

If you listen to what this man is saying, at the base of it is an extremely logical philosophical argument. 

I feel truly grateful that I'm the type of person that loves ideas and concepts. That information doesn't frighten me.

It's hard to imagine being the opposite.

John Carson Lennox (born 7 November 1943) is a Northern Irish mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian Apologist. He has written many books on religion, ethics, the relationship between science and faith (like his books, Has Science Buried God and Can Science Explain Everything), and has had public debates with atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.

He retired from professorship where he specialised in group theory. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics[2] at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College, Oxford University. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School and a Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum.

Early life[edit]

John Lennox was born on 7 November 1943 in Northern Ireland and brought up in Armagh where his father ran a store.[3] He attended The Royal School, Armagh, and went on to become Exhibitioner and Senior Scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where in 1962 he also attended the last lectures of C. S. Lewis on the poet John Donne. Lennox obtained Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees at the University of Cambridge with the dissertation Centrality and Permutability in Soluble Groups (1970).[4] He was awarded a Doctor of Science degree in mathematics by Cardiff University for his research. Lennox also holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford (by incorporation)[5] and an M.A. degree in bioethics at the University of Surrey.[6]

A lot of the time Plum one is dealing with blind prejudice and the result of brain washing.