Historical Verification of the Torah - Part 4 - Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb

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[Music] I'm trying to show that it's reasonable to believe in the total and I gave two arguments so far now when you try to show something's reasonable there are two jobs one is to show this evidence a favor and the other is to say that if they're quick criticisms you can answer them someone raised yesterday the question about the age of the universe scientific matters so what I think to do today is talk about two famous scientific matters and show you that we have what to say and then tomorrow and Wednesday I'll take you through as I can one more piece of positive evidence but I think especially in today's climate if you think that we're under pressure from science people feel very defensive science has a gigantic prestige most of which it doesn't deserve and they feel if I take a position which puts them at odds of science to start I'd be able to handle it they people are going to regard them as having fallen off the deep end so let's first talk about the age of the universe that's what was the question was asked just today there's only a little bit of a discrepancy that a current scientific picture is 13.8 billion years and we are in Year 5775 so just a little bit of a difference there that could be addressed and give it much too much time as we how about talk also about the theory of evolution 13.8 billion years how do we how they get such a figure how do they manage how can it do something like that well there is the computed distance of the galaxies and the speed of light

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1. 0:06[Music] I'm trying to show that it's reasonable to believe in the total and I gave…
2. 4:18always been the same speed of light and the force of gravity has always been the…
3. 9:01world in its embryo state it's the world before birth the six days of the of…
4. 13:11back into those ages is just not competent so it comes out that scientific world has…
5. 17:54that changes took place then you could have any any number of changes and you lose…
6. 22:34to find a scientific community that disagrees with things like theory of gravity or relativity past…
7. 26:45need it and if we put it in then we could make things work it's okay…
8. 31:24evidence in its paper you have an assumption a natural assumption and it's the naturals hope…
9. 35:35this for 40 years the latest challenge came from Thomas Nagel card-carrying atheist one of the…
10. 40:13on the string picking out the one that's closer to the to the target quotation for…

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