S1 E03. Thank God for Richard Dawkins
The Surprising Rebirth Of Belief In God
Justin Brierley
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we were not prepared for this. The venue is full. However, the mission is bigger than the room. You can still join us. Due to the incredible uptake, our responding to the Rebirth Conference will now be live streamed. Book your online pass now at rebirthconference.net. You may not be in the room, but you can still be part of the |
| 0:22.5 | response from anywhere in the world on Saturday the 22nd of November. On the live stream, |
| 0:28.5 | you'll get full access to all keynote sessions, panels and interviews with guests, including |
| 0:33.6 | John Lennox, Paul Kingsnorth, Elizabeth Oldfield and Al Gordon. |
| 0:39.3 | You can take part in the Q&A. |
| 0:42.1 | You'll get to take home recordings of all of the sessions and get a front row seat to what God is doing. |
| 0:45.7 | A rebirth is happening. |
| 0:47.6 | Let's respond together wherever we are. |
| 0:49.8 | Book your live stream pass at rebirthconference.net. |
| 1:00.4 | If you're going to say that Jesus was born of a virgin, that Jesus walked on water, that he turned water into wine, that is palpably anti-scientific. |
| 1:10.1 | There is no evidence for that. I can make it worse for you. |
| 1:13.3 | I know you can. Because Jesus actually came to be the Logos that created the whole universe. |
| 1:20.8 | And if this is the creator incarnate, making water into wine and so on is really a triviality. |
| 1:30.3 | On the 21st of October 2008, two Oxford professors, Richard Dawkins and John Lennox |
| 1:37.3 | met to debate God, science and atheism in front of a packed crowd at the city's Natural History Museum. |
| 1:45.0 | In your world, where is justice to be found? |
| 1:52.0 | Well, justice is a human construct of great importance in human affairs, and it's something |
| 1:58.0 | that we have, most of us have a sense of, |
| 2:01.6 | which I think probably can be given some sort of Darwinian explanation, |
| 2:05.6 | but I don't see where you're taking this. |
| 2:07.6 | What worries me is this, that can you really retain these good moral values |
| 2:15.6 | and espouse atheism? Hard atheists like Nietzsche and Camus would say you |
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