Mathematician on science and God
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, Lennox has debated Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Peter Singer. His usefulness is that he argues as a working scientist, which removes the "you just don't understand science" move from the table.
His core distinction is deceptively simple and settles a great many arguments: explaining the mechanism of a thing does not eliminate the agent behind it. Understanding the internal combustion engine does not make Henry Ford unnecessary. Science tells you how; it is not equipped to tell you why there is anything at all.
Northern Irish, warm, fluent in several languages, and unusually generous toward opponents — worth watching for the manner as much as the content.
What Genesis 1–3 teaches about the world God made and the ruin humanity brought into it — read in its ancient setting, with the main Christian views on the days, the historical Adam and original sin set out fairly.
Short, usable answers to the objections that come up most often in real conversations — and the principles for handling one you have never heard before.
The strongest arguments for God's existence, stated as premises, and how to engage the most common atheist objections with confidence and without hostility.
The kalām cosmological argument, fine-tuning and contingency — stated as premises, defended step by step, with the standard objections answered.
David Hume's argument against miracles, why it is circular, what would count as evidence, and the documented modern cases worth knowing about.
The real history of the relationship, the Galileo case as it actually happened, what evolution does and does not settle, and the range of views held by orthodox Christians.