ABSTRACT
Lennox, unlike Turek and many other apologists involved in the debate with the New Atheists, has impeccable scientific credentials. His name is attached to an alphabet soup of letters: MA, PhD, DPhil, and DSc. and he is a professor of mathematics at Oxford University. He adopts a common strategy in these debates, turning the atheists’ criticisms of the theists back toward them, accusing the atheists of the same dogmatic foolishness they attribute to the theists. One of the classic strategies theists use in defense of their positions is to manufacture logical contradictions out of atheist claims. Lennox contends that the atheist view is that all faith is blind faith; therefore, we should dismiss the New Atheists on that ground. Atheism is rooted in the same kind of blind faith atheists accuse theists of. Lennox actually has a case to the extent that the atheists adhere to scientism as opposed to science. However, in every case where the theist tries to draw or force an analogy between science and religion, s/he is stymied by the deep immersion of science in organized skepticism. Theists cannot be skeptics and seek absolute certainty at the same time. And however brilliant the efforts of theologians to bring reason into theology, God at least always escapes the skeptical sword. The Christian worldview, which is the focus of the atheism/theism debate, rejects skepticism.
