Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Jewish Philosophy: Our Universe - Part 3

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so all right so i i'd like to go back over the we did the end yesterday i have any questions that have risen since since then and then the rest of the hours my mind my money could just be open and talk whatever whatever you like um we talked yesterday about the evidence for the tradition of sinai in particular whether there's adequate reason to accept it is true and the reason that i'm giving that it's true is that this tradition belongs to a class of traditions human traditions throughout the world including the ancient world and traditions of this class there's not a single one that's known to be force false that means our experience of human traditions of this particular type is that they aren't wrong do people make mistakes sure do nations make mistakes sure lots of mistakes but not every kind of mistake this kind of mistake is not a single documented case so it seems that people don't make this sort of case it's a mistake could it be the only one because this would be different from all the rest sure but that's possibility i always give away the possibility that we're wrong we just point out that if you're going to make your decision on the basis of probability a contrasting possibility counts for nothing now i said yesterday but the critic will say that he can think up scenarios by which a tradition like ours could come into existence even if it isn't true he can easily think of all sorts of scenarios the most popular of which is something happened and the story was told for generations and over hundreds of years the story changed it changed gradually into a story even of a mass revelation so i challenged the critic do you mean to suggest your scenario as possible or

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