Emunah: Biology and the Survival of the Jewish People

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

Okay. So, we're going to go back to the topic of uh two ago, the topic of amuna. And I I I gave an example two weeks ago about um the water, how water expands at 4° so it's lighter, so it floats on top of a pond in the winter and it doesn't sink to the bottom of the pond. And now we see how it's fantastic design. So, in this safer, which is a very amazing safer just I don't want to go through all all through what he goes through. So I just want to show you the the topics. He goes through the uh the um how the cycle of rain the amount the the the precise proportion of oxygen in the atmosphere. There was just too much oxygen in the it was more than 20% then the air would be too flammable. There always be fires all the time. It was less than 20 less than 20% then we wouldn't be able to to breathe properly. So the the every it's very designed with very great precision. And then he goes into pages upon pages about how biology is so complex and so amazing that it proves that there must be a designer who designed the world. And uh you know he it could take uh weeks and months to go through how the biology of a human being and even of animals of course um indicates that there's this amazing designer who designed everything and uh he he goes through this in great length and it's a phenomenal thing and it's really the way we should be learning science. In other words, the way we should learn science in school is we should learn it how science is so amazing, so extraordinary and so wonderful, especially biology that it indicates that there's a creator who created the world. It really it's

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