John Lennox Responds to Stephen Hawking  John LennoxDr. John
Lennox, a math professor at the University of Oxford, visited
Seattle recently to respond to Stephen Hawking’s recent The
Grand Design (co-written with Leonard Mlodinow).  I’ll give a
brief summary of the main points Lennox made with a few
comments.  In his book, Hawking says:   Christian apologists
like to focus on the beginning of the universe, sensing a
weakness in the naturalistic model. When asked about what came
before the Big Bang, Science simply says, “I don’t know.” This
is neither a weakness nor a reason for embarrassment. Instead,
it points to those areas in science where more work needs to be
done. But this statement by Hawking gives at least one
resolution to the question.  Lennox spent much of the lecture
criticizing this one claim.  His concerns:  1. Hawking says:
“the universe can and will create itself from nothing.”  But the
law of gravity is not nothing.  2. “… The universe creates
itself from nothing.”  But “I explain X because o