Lennox and DNA

Dear Editor,

I was surprised by Rodney Holder’s comments in his review of 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity (November en) that John Lennox uses a ‘God of the Gaps’ argument in his book. In fact, it is nothing of the sort. Lennox’s argument is a positive one – that the information in our DNA had to come from an intelligent source. (In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was God … All things were made through Him. John 1:1.) Also that codes are not the same as patterns and do not occur naturally in the world but are the deliberate inventions of intelligent consciousness.

Neither does Lennox follow a ‘literal’ interpretation of the early chapters of Genesis, but a historical one. The events described actually happened which it appears many evangelicals are backing off from unnecessarily.

It is an excellent book in all respects as are Lennox’s earlier ones and well worth reading.

Yours sincerely, Jane Carey Bristol