Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Jewish Philosophy: Questions and Answers - 12

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All right. You're up. It's a little difficult to Yeah. People sort of don't comprehend. People don't have? Like you like you explain something, but they're not they're not comprehending. Like uh Let's say let's say Let's say the muscle of a You say granite granite granite and it's this that it has these circles on it. Let's say you take a rock. say you take a rock. And then let's say right and then expose. And then it turns soft so there's so there's um there's those bubbles So if it if it if it becomes hard immediately so then you'll have the bubbles. But if it takes millions of years you won't have those bubbles. But it can't it can't happen instantly. There's no way it can happen instantly unless Hashem does it. You know so therefore so therefore has to take a lot of time depending on on the thing we're talking about. we're talking about. The thing is that you've seen granite granite is one of the rocks in the core that it that um that we see that we see the bubbles from the smash. What it whatever so whatever happened there or the however it happened we see the bubbles. So therefore and it's and there's no way there could be bubbles that happened in so in such a in such a long amount of time. So therefore that's the proof that the the world was created was therefore formed instantly which is not possible. Has to take time cuz if it

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