John Lennox: Why believe in God in a scientific world?

Foto: Dag Erlandsen

I had the priviledge of introducing professor John Lennox' lecture earlier this month. He is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow in Mathematics and the Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College, Oxford and he gave a lecture at the Science Library 17 October 2018. He specialized in group theory, but is better known as a philosopher of science, having written several books on the topic of science and God. He is also renowned from debates with prominent opponents, such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Singer, Michael Shermer, Lawrence Krauss, and Victor Stenger.

Stephen Hawking som filosof

La oss anerkjenne Hawking for hans enorme bidrag til teoretisk fysikk, og så kan vi la hans filosofiske utsagn langsomt gå i glemmeboken.

Det er konklusjonen på en kommentar jeg ble invitert til å gi i Vårt Land i går og som er delvis basert på innslaget i Abels Tårn for noen år siden, der filosof Einar Duengen Bøhn også var med.

Eller for å si det på en annen måte: Stephen Hawking var ingen filosof.

Is fundamental physics opening the door to pseudoscience?

It is probably wiser to follow Bob Dylan than Stephen Hawking in matters of science vs philosophy. That's what I claim in the article below. Such concerns surface when supporters of string theory and inflation theory defend their models.
My worry is with the voices that downplay the roles of experiment and observation on behalf of beauty for such theories to be regarded as credible. Read more in my science philosophizing a while ago in the new Mentsch web-magazine.

The editor of Mentsch called the article The Pseudoscience of Fundamental Physics

[It's unfortunately gone from the Mentsch website, so use the link above instead, "The Pseudoscience of Fundamental Physics".]