Lennox / Hitchens

The interest here is a little personal as well as professional. John Lennox grew up in my home town. His family are well known there.


The debate between John Lennox (Christian apologist) and Christopher Hitchens (well-known athiest) was held during the Edinburgh Festival in the Usher Hall. The motion was : "The New Europe Should Prefer The New Atheism"


The links below have extensive coverage of the encounter.


I think it is amazing that 1400 people in a supposedly post Christian society would turn out for such a debate. And that opinion should swing in Lennox's direction. Or perhaps I - we - should see it as evidence that God is still after people's hearts and minds, even in secular Europe.


http://thinkingmatters.org.nz/2008/08/should-europe-embrace-the-new-atheism-john-lennox-v-christopher-hitchens/


http://wetlenses.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-europe-new-atheism.html


http://theologica.blogspot.com/2008/08/hitchens-vs-lennox-and-winner-was.html