[Avodah] Emunah, intelligent design, scientific processes

Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Sun Aug 14 19:02:29 PDT 2016


Science, by its own definition, never proves anything. It can only disprove.

A million people can drop things and measure their acceleration, we can
launch vehicles into outer space, all based upon Newtonian physics, in
spite of it being incorrect. And they knew all along that it was incorrect.

So we can prove things wrong with one observation but cannot prove it
correct with a million confirmations.

Science is about postulates. Many are possible but the most elegant is
accepted as the working hypothesis, Occam's Razor. And as we have seen,
remains in place sometimes even if we know it is incorrect.

If the question - does Gd exist?, were approached using the scientific
approach, there is no question that the most elegant postulate is, Gd must
exist because there must be a beginning somewhere - when the scietists
finally confront Gd saying we have discovered how to create life, you just
take a bit of dirt and put it into a test-tube ... they will be interrupted
by Gd saying, that's MY dirt, you guys go get some of your own

A bar-mitzvah boy and bas mitzvah girl are commanded to know Gd. Can they
be expected to know what the great philosophers have not been able to
resolve? Of course they can, because they do not have a contaminated mind.
And I mean contaminated by Negios.
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