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<font size=3>At 10:27 PM 2/29/2012, Eli Turkel wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><< That said, I can't call
evolution "fact". It has strong evidence, but<br>
nothing<br>
really rules out RMMS's or R' Avigdor Miller's supposition that Hashem
had<br>
His<br>
own reasons for laying down that evidence. >><br><br>
According to Rabbi Miller there is nothing as
science.</font></blockquote><br>
I do not understand this sentence unless it was supposed to read,
"there is such thing as science."<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3> All modern
science<br>
is based on experiment and observations, it is never proved in the<br>
mathematical sense of the word. Hence, the fact that a ball always falls
to<br>
earth every time doesnt "prove" that gravity exists. Perhaps as
others<br>
claim every time G-d causes the ball to fall but there is no such
natural<br>
fact as gravity. Perhaps the world was created a week ago and all
archives<br>
of areivim and avodah were planted there by G-d for his reasons.<br>
</blockquote><br>
I am not about to defend Rabbi A. Miller's views on science.
However, science is based on certain assumptions which cannot be
proven. For example, that the way we see the world is the way
it really is and that the simplest explanation for phenomena is the
one that is to be accepted. My understanding (and it is limited
since I am a mathematician and not a scientist) is that science
attempts to answer the "how" of things but not the
"why" behind them.<br><br>
My friend Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Ehrenpreis, Z"L, told me that one
can assert that the sun rotates around the earth. "It is just
a question of how you construct the model." he said. "It
is easier to describe things using a model in which the earth rotates
around the sun, but you can also describe things with the sun
rotating around the earth." he explained.<br><br>
So what does science say about planetary motion? According to
Ehrenpreis not much in absolute terms. YL</font></body>
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