Jewish Philosophy: Questions and Answers - 36 - Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb

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Okay, the floor is open. Is there any chance that you can to contrast to uh the scientific file common accepted scientific uh ideas and things that you can compare to what they say. For example, um evolution and suggesting that it was done and that it was done by a sound and putting in the second dimension. And uh similarly with the age of the universe um being accept commonly accepted and the scientific world being in the world. Okay, it's a complex question. Uh let me break it up into pieces. The first question is could science prove that there is no God? Could science prove that there is no God? The answer to that question is no for several reasons. First of all any proposition that you want to prove, you are responsible for explaining the concepts in the proposition. Explaining what the concepts mean. This is a point that's made by the philosopher Peter van Inwagen. And since science has nothing to say about what God means science can't describe the proposition that's to be examined. Any proof about God has to have at least part theology as its basis. Science alone has nothing to say about whether there is or is not a God. That's one problem. The other problem which you are alluding to is that whatever science describes it's always possible that there is a creator behind what it's describing making it happen and just not showing his presence. So science's description may in fact predict correctly what's going to

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