@defendtheword: John Lennox sat down to dinner next to an eminent biochemist. "I'm an atheist. I'm a reductionist, and we have nothing to talk about — we're going to have a miserable dinner." So Lennox proposed an experiment. "I picked up the menu... roast chicken. Those are marks on paper. I said, you explain to me how those marks convey the idea of roast chicken using just the material of the paper and ink." Dead silence. "He said, 'It cannot be done.' ...'John — I have been going to my laboratory for 40 years thinking that could be done.'" "He said, 'It doesn't matter. You must have a mind.'" Full discussion → "John Lennox: The Question of Science and God - Part 1" on YouTube 🔗 Speaker: John Lennox #Apologetics #ChristianTikTok #JohnLennox #DoesGodExist #ChristianEvidence

✨✨✨Alter Ego✨✨✨ :

in hands of who are we???? 😳

Gideon :

i think he is saying God exists right in front of our eyes but its far more than your mind explaining or reasoning it to you.It can't be done it's more than that.Like the love of God.

PA NGU :

He's not saying physics is wrong. He's pointing out that a physical description of ink and paper doesn't, by itself, explain why those marks mean "roast chicken." The challenge is about semantics and consciousness: how does meaning arise from matter alone? Whether you agree with his conclusion or not, that's the philosophical question he's asking.

AnswerToEverything42 :

There are a ton of explanations of how language developed over time. And even if there weren’t, this is classic God of the gaps bs. You can’t explain, so just say God did it

neil :

He talking in the context of an atheist, which will question everything but when you believe in God who answers all things you have to look no further...

Mark :

I have no idea what he's talking about

Dwayne Campbell :

im not smart enough to understand the analogy

Family Mow-ments :

That is a genuinely good man. To admit he was wrong so fast, he comprehended the point and came to the conclusion that he was under a faulty premise. Fantastic.

Darklander :

well theres 2 minutes i'll never get back.

adam49b :

language is an agreement of meanings .

BrowsingTheHellscape :

Complete nonsense 😆

ABL :

100% did not happen

BTD Disciple :

I’ve listened to this guy for hours and didn’t get bored. He just lands these philosophical ideas in such beautiful fashion.

hayesboy18 :

What a load of word salad. Means nothing.

alishaukat143143 :

Probably, he is talking about the arbitrariness of language. Signifier and dignified. The signifier does not have any inherent relation with the signified. That's what post structuralists and Deconstructionists talk about.

nostalgia :

please explain further cause I'm stumped 🤔

Fishy :

I mean yes, language is a social construct. I don’t think anyone denies the existence of social constructs.

PeterfWisser :

Roast chicken means roast chicken in every language. Paper and ink are used to make letters that paint a picture in the minds that view them.🥰

Anchorblue :

Honestly, I don’t fully understand the question still. 😳🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

sharklover771 :

I can totally understand believing in God two thousand years ago.

TheFreeDove :

skymonkey5 :

any scientist worth his weight is atheist

Cristian Costa :

but if I ask for the roast chicken I will see it in the next minutes. If I keep asking for roast chicken and I never see it got years, and I stil believe that roast chicken is real, that's the definition of madness

Vittman Vittman :

This only proves that a mind is needed to decipher information. It doesn't necessarily prove the existence of the supernatural God of the Bible. Unless one is prepared to argue that Mind itself is "supernatural:...

Stitchy Wickham :

you can literally use physics and chemistry to show why that happens. (cultural evolution from darwinist evolution from chemical interactions to the fundamental forces of the universe) you would need a long paper to flesh it out but it's all there