Dr. John Lennox will be part of all three ELO Forums this year (Winnipeg on October 25th, Vancouver on November 15th, and Toronto on November 29th) via Zoom from his home in Oxford, UK. John will be in conversation with Dr. Richard (Rick) J. Goossen, Chair, ELO Network. John will be addressing issues around Artificial Intelligence. Rick will pose as many questions as possible. John has a high online profile; these four videos alone have been viewed about five million times and have thousands of comments:
2084: Artificial Intelligence & The Future of Humanity – 277k views
AI, Man & God – 1.4m views
John Lennox, Does God Exist? Oxford Union – 1.5m views
The God Delusion Debate: John Lennox & Richard Dawkins – 1.7m views
We have decided to accept questions in advance and broaden the session to include not only AI but, also, as time permits, questions related to his other interests. This is a rare opportunity to have John address your questions. Please email your questions now HERE and indicate which Forum you are attending.
John has a unique background which prepared him for a lifetime of Bible teaching and engaging with those who have differing viewpoints of Christianity. John Lennox is an internationally renowned speaker on the interface of science, philosophy, and religion. He regularly teaches at many academic institutions, is a Senior Fellow with the Trinity Forum, and has written a series of books exploring the relationship between science and Christianity. John has been an instructor in the ELO Leadership Programs since 2018. He has also participated in various ELO Webinars.
He studied at the Royal School Armagh, Northern Ireland, and was an Exhibitioner and Senior Scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, from which he took his MA, MMath, and PhD. He worked for many years in the Mathematics Institute at the University of Wales in Cardiff which awarded him a DSc for his research. He also holds an MA and DPhil from Oxford University (by incorporation) and an MA in Bioethics from the University of Surrey. He was a Senior Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow at the Universities of Würzburg and Freiburg in Germany.
He has lectured extensively in North America, Eastern and Western Europe, and Australasia on mathematics, the philosophy of science, and the intellectual defence of Christianity. He has written several books on the interface between science, philosophy, and theology. These include God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (2009); God and Stephen Hawking (2011), a response to The Grand Design; Gunning for God (2011), on the new atheism; and Seven Days that Divide the World (2011), on the first chapters of Genesis. He has also written a number of books exploring biblical themes, including Against the Flow (2015), on the topic of Daniel; Determined to Believe? (2017), on the subject of free will and God’s sovereignty; Joseph (2019), on the story in Genesis; and the ‘Key Bible Concepts’ series, co-written with David Gooding (in the 1990s). His most recent titles are Have No Fear (2018), on evangelism today; Can Science Explain Everything? (2019), on the relationship between science and Christianity; and the six-part ‘Quest for Reality and Significance’ series co-written by David Gooding (2018-2019). In addition to over seventy published mathematical papers, he is the co-author of two research-level texts in algebra in the Oxford Mathematical Monographs series. Furthermore, an autobiographical documentary of his life titled, Against the Tide, was released in November 2020.
He debated Richard Dawkins on “The God Delusion” at the University of Alabama (2007) and on “Has Science Buried God?” at the Oxford Museum of Natural History (2008). He has also debated Christopher Hitchens on "New Atheism" (Edinburgh Festival, 2008) and the question of “Is God Great?” (Samford University, 2010), as well as Peter Singer on the topic of “Is there a God?” (Melbourne, 2011). Furthermore, he has participated in public discussions on similar topics with many other academics on campuses around the world.