Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Jewish Philosophy: Geography of the Earth

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

like to tell you a story it's a true story and one that has a moral I spell out the moral at the end people are thinking about where the world came from from ancient times in particular people thinking about how old it is the dominant view almost universal view is dominant view almost universal view is that the world has no beginning this is based on certain natural intuitions every egg comes from a chicken every chicken comes from an egg you've got infinity right in front of you because this chicken came from an egg and then they get my chicken that you came from an egg and and and it so if the way we see the world operating is if the way we see the world operating is accurate then it's got to go back chickens and eggs forever the heavens are until very recently and with a couple of cultural exceptions unchanging there's a daily revolution or rotation and the stars and the stars and the constellations of the constellations and the Sun has a yearly motion north and south visa vie the geography of the south visa vie the geography of the earth that's like that since anyone has ever been talking about it thinking about it writing about it told in exactly the same so natural thought is it just goes back there and that was the thought in science and that was the thought in philosophy their religious views that differed but who cares about religion you know that's just a throwaway science philosophy of account and it goes back forever then in the late 1920s people began to observe

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1. 0:19like to tell you a story it's a true story and one that has a moral…
2. 5:00beginning says that I'll be hitting so then things should be infinitely far apart there's a…
3. 10:09universe has a beginning became the adopted theory now as I told the story I'm telling…
4. 15:18happened the way it does when Laplace gave his exposition of Lewton the universe is just…
5. 20:33it when it disintegrates the Geiger counter will register it and the bomb will cool off…
6. 25:43was if I was a kid I had my tonsils out and they took that the…
7. 30:29formation without doing you to proteins the last estimate is that 80% of the DNA is…
8. 35:42its compounds what determines what compounds you can make in what compounds you can how do…
9. 40:57there's gravity slowing it down gravity is slowing it that's what we'll do and the question…
10. 46:05that we don't see that picture is a picture that's familiar to us because our picture…

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