[Avodah] Rav Elchanan Wasserman & Why People Sin

Eli Turkel via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Tue Jun 2 00:25:05 PDT 2015


<<REW says that he really doesn't believe, but he had to work against
the natural state of seeing a world that shows obvious signs of a Designer.
Someone can truly and honestly convince himself, or be convinced by
others (including upbringing) that a poem really could emerge by
someone spilling ink. But that's not what people would conclude if we
lacked a strong desire to conclude that way -- the "shochad" of freedom
if ein din ve'ein Dayan.>>

I have a book "The Goldilocks Enigma" by Paul Davies (cosmolgist) on why is
the universe just right for life. Most of the book is to show how unlikely
it is that the universe has exactly the right properties for existence.
The second part is a discussion as to why this happened. He goes through
all the theories including the watchmaker etc. One possibility is a
"creator" . He adnits that it is logically consistent but finds iy highly
unlikely. His own preference is for the multi-verse.

The idea is not whether you agree with him or not. Rather here is an
intelligent human who has thought deeply about these problems and does not
see any obvious signs of a designer. I would venture that that is the
opinion of most physicists and certainly biologists.
What you consider obvious he considers very unlikely. Again we come to the
point that REW claims that anyone who really thinks about the problem and
comes up with a different answer than he does simply has an ulterior motive.


-- 
Eli Turkel
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