I returned to Birmingham, Alabama from Oxford, England and hit the ground running. John Lennox had expressed openness to my invitation but he had made no commitments. Before he would do so, he wanted me to demonstrate that I was “serious” about what I had proposed…
I have always said that the backstory to the debates between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox, four in all, is at least as interesting as the debates themselves, if not more so. For every minute that they spent with each other on stage – Richard certainly would not tolerate John’s company anywhere else – I spent many more with each of them off stage…
“I don’t usually do debates,” atheist Oxford Professor of Evolutionary Biology Richard Dawkins told John Lennox, himself a Christian and an Oxford Professor of Pure Mathematics and Philosophy of Science. It was October 3rd, 2007. The two men were backstage waiting to be introduced to a capacity crowd at the