Why is there something rather than nothing? Why, in particular, does t — John Lennox

"It was belief in God that motivated the advance of science in the 16th and 17th centuries. Gallelo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton expected to find law in nature because they believed in a great law giver. Now so often we hear the new atheists talk about faith, depricating it. I want to tell you that scientists are all people of faith. As Einstein saw, they believe that the universe is accessable to the human mind and physics can not explain that for the simple reason that you cant do physics without believing that the universe is intelligable. So science required faith."

"... energy, light, gravity, and consciousness ... You believe in these things because of their explanatory power as concepts. ... God is not a monolith ... God is Himself a fellowship ..."

"I think atheism undermines science very seriously because if you think of the basic assumption that all of us who are scientists have, that is, we believe in the rational intelligibility of the universe. And, its interesting to me that scientists of the eminence of Eugene Wigner and Albert Einstein used the word “faith.” They cannot imagine a scientist without this faith because, of course, they point out that youve got to believe in the rational intelligibility of the universe before you can do any science at all. Science doesnt give you that."

"I have a reason for trusting my mind at least in part because it is ultimately the product of the vast intelligence of a personal God as is the Universe out there; and thats why the two match together."

"The evils perpetuated by some professing branches of the Christian church have died hard."

"All people are people of Faith. Everybodys got a world view that they believe and this really exposed one of the biggest problems we have in our culture -- that Christians are regarded as people of faith. That means they believe where theres no evidence but atheists -- theyre not people of Faith, theyre rational and fighting against that is one of the things Ive been doing for a long time."