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A philosophical lecture on the verification of the Torah by Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb.
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- 0:02first we argue that we're not looking for proofs absolute certainty infallibility those things are impossible…
- 1:02by our experience we learn that some sources are reliable and some sources are not reliable…
- 2:37national experience means every person in the nation at that prior time the ancestry every person…
- 4:11very strong positive empirical evidence that's what we did so far are we together so far…
- 5:43extraordinary evidence i think there's a lot to recommend that when someone claims something happened which…
- 7:16when we say miracle to crucial word here is we what do we mean when we…
- 8:52chiseled in stone we aren't so hypebound that our picture of nature is uh trumps every…
- 10:24around to say well that's what the laws of nature used to say but guess what…
- 11:57visiting china two thousand years ago is there an extended visit talks to people and uh…
- 13:30gosh we haven't seen it but these are they seem to be reasonable people and reliable…
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