Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb - Verification of the Torah Part 3 Cut 2 of 4

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in italy and the whole town is wrecked and the stone is lost and there aren't any known similar stones so from now on at least for a while nobody can verify it would they at that point go back and say well now if we can't see it it must have all been a false i don't think so i think it's it's quite reasonable for them to say our friends let alone what the italians will say who knows whether you trust them but our own friends were there hundreds of them and they all say they saw it there must be something there that's quite different from anything that we've ever seen anything we that we've ever seen anything we understand anything that's in our picture of how the natural world works yes there is something there that's really very very strange i don't think we're locked into our picture of nature so solidly that we can't learn even on the basis of testimony of people who say they observed or witnessed something that goes against our complete conception of the world and we're not locked into that extent that we can't change so i think that yes the more extraordinary they claim the more extraordinary the evidence should be but in this case we have

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2. 1:31them he surveys their culture he's there on an extended visit maybe when you came in…
3. 3:02when he held the stone over the nail then you might get different stories because that…
4. 4:33see if you can find even three significantly differing accounts of that event there are lots…
5. 6:06they're really comfortable anyway you know take a wedding see how many different versions you can…
6. 7:40of 9 11. um and he found people who said it happened tonight not people have…
7. 9:11that the entire event was not experienced normally why would you expect it to be conflicting…
8. 10:42once you know he's wrong you just discard the fact that he said val except when…
9. 12:12predict the future and then you can test to see whether the future fulfill the prediction…
10. 13:43they can't be used to make a clear enough prediction so for example the context says…

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