[Avodah] RSRH on G-d and Science

[Yitzchok Levine]

The following is from the new translation of 
RSRH's commentary on the Chumash, Bereishis 2

2 Then, with the seventh day, God completed the 
work that He had made, and with the seventh day 
He ceased from all the work that
He had made.

“Being” and “working” in the whole universe
expresses God’s thought and message. Science investigates the being and
working of the created things; the truth is that science investigates God’s
thoughts, which are reflected in the created things and in their mission.
Man knows something only if he has discerned in the object of his
study the thoughts of God. The scientist who denies God and devotes
his life to investigating the ideas in nature discovers — in every law he
finds in any force, in every purpose he finds in any pattern — traces
of the God he denies with his lips. What is more, he denies his denial
with the very first step that he takes on his journey of inquiry in the
realm of nature. The goal he seeks presupposes the God he denies, for
God alone formulated those ideas and realized them in nature. The
truths the scientist yearns to discover, in whose existence he believes
and in whose discovery he delights, are God’s.

Vy'chulu. “Thus the heaven and the earth and all their host were
brought by God to completion.” The world as a whole and each individual
part of it were assigned to their post by God. Each part was
endowed by God with energy and form for the sake of its particular
charge.

Yitzchok Levine  
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