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.