Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Jewish Philosophy: Torah and Science

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so all right what i wanted to do today is start at least for a few days to talk about problems of science and religion there's a great deal to be said about this and i'm just skimming off the top um i think a few points can be made that will at least give you the flavor of our approach our attitude and um at least mean that if other problems arise you'll at least feel it's worthwhile to check carefully whether we have some responses to those questions as well let's start with the age of the universe there is some difference between the current scientific estimate of 13.8 billion years and the jewish date of 57 44. some some some gap there between the two you some some gap there between the two you know 10 orders of magnitude what could possibly be said about that well the one the one point that i want to make to you and i want to illustrate in detail is all projections about the past are made on the basis of a key assumption that key assumption is that the laws of nature that we see operating now have always operated in the same way have always operated in the same way if you don't make that assumption then you can't draw any conclusions about certainly about the remote past now um maimonides faced a similar problem in his time it was much worse in qualitative terms we're talking about 13.8 billion he was facing the irish athenians who said the world is infinitely old infinitely old with no beginning which indeed every scientific and philosophically trained person believed

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1. 0:10so all right what i wanted to do today is start at least for a few…
2. 1:45have always operated in the same way if you don't make that assumption then you can't…
3. 3:15then we exit and then we grow to look as you see us so the child…
4. 4:46the world of a fetus before birth and just like the life of the fetus in…
5. 6:17we don't know how they were changing we don't know how they got into the operation…
6. 7:48saying that out up front it's being recorded twice and i'm doing this for psychological reasons…
7. 9:18yeah it's like radiocarbon dating you would say that the laws it as a current effect…
8. 10:50presumption that the way in which we experience the world was different prior to the seventh…
9. 12:22book just the book itself and you're trying to understand it it is a possible way…
10. 13:54now when he started to do it is 15 billion now it's 15.8 billion so you…

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