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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=735072112-10102011>R' Katz
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<DIV><SPAN class=735072112-10102011> 1. </SPAN>Keep up what good
work? The work of famous atheist writers like Hitchens and
Dawkins?</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=735072112-10102011> 2. </SPAN>HOWEVER, it is a
fool's mission to try to persuade someone like Lisa Randall of this.
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<DIV><SPAN class=735072112-10102011> 3. </SPAN>All of that leads her
to imagine that she has some kind of special knowledge and insight into fields
in which she is in fact entirely ignorant: theology, politics, history,
economics, and scientific fields other than physics. Her authority as a
Harvard physicist and writer gives her standing to babble on about things she
literally knows nothing about.</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=735072112-10102011> 4. </SPAN>In the Oct 3 issue of
TIME magazine </DIV>
<DIV> <SPAN class=735072112-10102011> 5. </SPAN>We religious
Jews do not need to be overly impressed and we certainly don't need to be
intimidated. There are religious Jews who, unlike Lisa Randall, actually
know science AND Torah. Oh and political science and history and
economics, too.<SPAN class=735072112-10102011> </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=735072112-10102011>1. The good work of trying to
make physics and science interesting and understandable in a country that
is not graduating enough STEM majors to even fill the shoes of those
retiring, let alone any future growth.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=735072112-10102011>2. I am only trying to convince her that
the "tautology" she provided (religion and science contradict) is not QED -
she may not think (and I don't think you can "prove" belief to anyone -listen
here for a shiur from R' OY Glickman - I wonder if anyone disagrees today <A
href="http://download.yutorah.org/2011/2310/764672/Is%20Hilchot%20Teshuva%20a%20Contradiction%20in%20Terms%20Thoughts%20on%20Law%20and%20Philosophy.MP3">http://download.yutorah.org/2011/2310/764672/Is%20Hilchot%20Teshuva%20a%20Contradiction%20in%20Terms%20Thoughts%20on%20Law%20and%20Philosophy.MP3</A>)
it's the most likely explanation but I want to show it can't be rejected out
of hand</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=735072112-10102011>3. I can't speak for her but (hey we can
agree on something) the end note of her book mentions this and
finance/probability (I borrowed it from the NYPL so I don't remember exactly)
as areas she wouldn't be comfortable writing about without some others
tutelage - one of those areas happens to be something I work on professionally
and I also thought it could have stood some peer review. {but just
note that we make the same claim in a way for gedolim - a few hours on
medicine etc.}</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=735072112-10102011>4. will read -</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=735072112-10102011>5.Not at all intimidated, that's why I
wrote her in the first place. If we can't stand up to those who
disagree, it is a cause for concern (i.e. we only convince the convinced
because they know no better)<BR>GT<BR>Joel
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