John Lennox on Jordan Peterson, Richard Dawkins & CS Lewis at Canadian Christian Business Conference

April 22, 2025
by ELO

John Lennox's interview with Jordan Peterson on "Morality, Mortality, God and he Void" has been viewed 2.2 million times. His interview on "AI, Man & God" has been viewed 1.6 million times. His "God Delusion Debate" with Richard Dawkins has been viewed over 2 million times.

John Lennox has been a powerful advocate for a Christian worldview in the public square around the world, having debated leading atheist thinkers, writing on current topics and being sought out by leading public intellectuals such as Jordan Peterson.

We are pleased to announce that John Lennox will be joining Dr. Richard (Rick) J. Goossen for an extensive Q & A at the ELO Forum Winnipeg on October 22 via video call.

Audience members will have an opportunity to pose questions to Dr. Lennox, who will cover his varied experiences with Richard Dawkins, Jordan Peterson and others. He will also recount his tale of being in a lecture by C.S. Lewis as a young undergraduate.

Dr. John Lennox is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. He is an internationally renowned speaker on the interface of science, philosophy and religion. He regularly teaches at many academic institutions, is Senior Fellow with the Trinity Forum and has written a series of books exploring the relationship between science and Christianity.

Dr. Lennox has been an instructor at the ELO Oxford Leadership Program since 2018 and will be returning as an instructor at the 2025 Program as well. In 2024, Lennox received the ELO Entrepreneurial Leaders Award at St John's College, University of Oxford. He has participated in multiple ELO webinars and has spoken at previous ELO Forums across Canada.

He studied at the Royal School Armagh, Northern Ireland and was Exhibitioner and Senior Scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University from which he took his MA, MMath and PhD. He worked for many years in the Mathematics Institute at the University of Wales in Cardiff which awarded him a DSc for his research. He also holds an MA and DPhil from Oxford University (by incorporation) and an MA in Bioethics from the University of Surrey. He was a Senior Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow at the Universities of Würzburg and Freiburg in Germany.

He has lectured extensively in North America, Eastern and Western Europe and Australasia on mathematics, the philosophy of science and the intellectual defence of Christianity. He has written a number of books on the interface between science, philosophy and theology. These include God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (2009), God and Stephen Hawking, a response to The Grand Design (2011), Gunning for God, on the new atheism (2011), and Seven Days that Divide the World, on the first chapters of Genesis (2011). He has also written a number of books exploring biblical themes, including Against the Flow (2015), on the topic of Daniel, Determined to Believe? (2017), on the the subject of free will and God’s sovereignty, Joseph (2019), on the story in Genesis, and the ‘Key Bible Concepts’ series, co–written with David Gooding (in the 1990s). His most recent titles are Have no Fear (2018), on evangelism today, Can Science Explain Everything? (2019), on the relationship between science and Christianity, and the six–part ‘Quest for Reality and Significance’ series co–written by David Gooding (2018–9). Furthermore, in addition to over seventy published mathematical papers, he is the co–author of two research level texts in algebra in the Oxford Mathematical Monographs series.
 
He debated Richard Dawkins on “The God Delusion” in the University of Alabama (2007) and on “Has Science buried God?” in the Oxford Museum of Natural History (2008). He has also debated Christopher Hitchens on the New Atheism (Edinburgh Festival, 2008) and the question of “Is God Great?” (Samford University, 2010), as well as Peter Singer on the topic of “Is there a God?” (Melbourne, 2011). Furthermore, he has participated in public discussions on similar topics with many other academics on campuses around the world.

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