Alex O'Connor & John Lennox on the Problem of Evil

Difficult questions require difficult conversations, and O'Connor is becoming better at hosting them than many believers.

Recently Alex O’Connor sat down for an interview with mathematician and Professor John Lennox, a long time Christian apologist who has debated both Dawkins and Hitchens. O’Connor, who over the years has distinctly softened towards religious beliefs, might once have entered debate mode, but the conversation was actually extremely cordial and interesting. At the end, Alex says to Lennox that he remains agnostic, and rejects the new atheist claims that “religion is bad and evil and corrupting of thought, I’m not on that boat.” But he says that like many, one of his main issues with theism continues to be the problem of evil, a problem that he finds mysterious and bewildering.