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#151 John Lennox - What Nearly Dying Taught Me About God

4/13/20261 hr 19 min

Get all sides of every story and be better informed at https://ground.news/AlexOC - subscribe for 40% off unlimited access.For early, ad-free access to videos, and to support the channel, subscribe to my Substack: https://www.alexoconnor.com.-John Lennox is a Northern Irish mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist originally from Northern Ireland. He has written many books on religion, ethics, the relationship between science and God, and has had public debates with atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. -

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  7. Alex O'Connor· Host0:59

    John Lennox, welcome back to the show.

  8. John Lennox· Guest1:01

    Thank you very much, Alex.

  9. Alex O'Connor· Host1:03

    How are you?

  10. John Lennox· Guest1:03

    I'm good. Better than I deserve, actually. [laughs] [laughs] But I've lost a bit of weight since I last saw you.

  11. Alex O'Connor· Host1:11

    Mm.

  12. John Lennox· Guest1:11

    So I'm actually feeling in good form.

  13. Alex O'Connor· Host1:13

    That's good. I, I was really glad to sit down with you last time and, uh, have a conversation which we were just talking about, attracted a lot of attention. Um, it's got more than a million views on the main video. And interestingly, it's a moment near the end that seems to have captured people's attention where

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