Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Jewish Philosophy: Adequate Reason to Believe - Part 5

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Uh so, yesterday we we um finished up the presentation of the evidence. We have national traditions um of a certain type and historical survey shows us that there's not one example of such a national tradition that's ever been false. That means that we have very large-scale empirical evidence that national traditions of this type are true. And that means the evidence gives us reason to accept them even if we can't check them independently. Um And then we said the evidence that we described is of national traditions describing natural events. We are using this to gain credibility for a national tradition describing a supernatural event. Isn't that a jump from one type of proposition to another? I would say yes, it is. It is a jump. Question whether the jump is justified. And we started by asking what would be a reasonable credible opposition to the supernatural. Would it be reasonable to simply say I reject the supernatural on principle always forever unconditionally without any possible consideration? Would that be a reasonable position to take? And we pointed out that that would be unreasonable. It's unreasonable because if you ask this person who opposes the supernatural what does he mean when he says natural? What does he mean when he says supernatural? If he says by natural I mean what my current science describes as nature and he takes a position rejecting all challenges to that description of nature, then he has condemned himself to never make any progress in science. Revolutions in science come about when the old picture of what nature is turns

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1. 0:19Uh so, yesterday we we um finished up the presentation of the evidence. We have national…
2. 4:24it in motion. That's what we call inertia. What pushes do is speed things up or…
3. 8:30And that being the case, it seems to me we have enough evidence to accept the…
4. 12:33make you right. Now, let's see your attempt to show that you're right. And you may…
5. 17:08They come to you and they say, "You know, we're considering probing George. What do you…
6. 21:43everyday life, and we have a sterling prediction for that. And we have the relation of…
7. 25:48The discrepancy between gravity and and electromagnetism is one to the the 10 to the 40th…
8. 30:22history. So, I think our claims are better. But as I said, that's just a footnote.…
9. 34:26with respect to which we differ. Now, before I run through them, let me explain to…
10. 38:29god, the moon god, the sea god, and so forth and so on. How could we…

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