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There's a common there's a common misconception that science and religion or science and faith are contradictory,

but could it be that faith, that the very bare bones, faith in a creator,

is actually the prerequisite for doing science and those who attempt to do it apart from that

prerequisite are really standing out on a limb that they're sawing off behind them.

Welcome back to Issues, Et cetera. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to talk about faith and reason,

Dr. John Lennox. He's Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Oxford

University. He's author of the new book, My Story, A Spiritual and Intellectual Biography. Dr. Lennox,

welcome. Thank you very much. Delighted to be with you.

Ireland, in particular Northern Ireland, was a very different place when you were growing up there than it is today.

What are your thoughts, in particular in the secularization that happened so rapidly after peace in Ireland?

Well that's right, but after the troubles, I had already left Ireland for Cambridge before the time of trouble, so that my experience of Northern

Ireland during the intense secularisation that has happened is very limited indeed.

When I was growing up, there was a lot of religious tension, unfortunately, between the professing Christian

communities. And some of the reason that I have maintained a strong defense of the Christian

faith is that my parents were very unusual in that they were Christian without being sectarian.

And one attitude will explain a lot. My dad ran a store, 30-40 staff, and he employed both Catholics and Protestants.

And we got into a lot of trouble for that, eventually bombings.

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