The evils perpetuated by some professing branches of the Christian church have died hard. - John Lennox

It was belief in God that motivated the advance of science in the 16th and 17th centuries. Gallelo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton expected to find law in nature because they believed in a great law giver. Now so often we hear the new atheists talk about faith, depricating it. I want to tell you that scientists are all people of faith. As Einstein saw, they believe that the universe is accessable to the human mind and physics can not explain that for the simple reason that you can't do physics without believing that the universe is intelligable. So science required faith.

All people are people of Faith. Everybody's got a world view that they believe and this really exposed one of the biggest problems we have in our culture -- that Christians are regarded as people of faith. That means they believe where there's no evidence but atheists -- they're not people of Faith, they're rational and fighting against that is one of the things I've been doing for a long time.

Take the whole of the Bible, how much of it was written at a time when there was no persecution and trouble? Very little and we have had an experience in Europe, at least until relatively recently, without war for an unusual period of time and unfortunately into the vacuum there has poured all this kind of stuff postmodernism, atheism, all the rest of it.