Shalom, Jonathan Ginsburg. The best having me now is talk the Jewish corrugation, Stokie. This video is about creationism versus evolution. I simply, do not understand how intelligent people cannot believe in evolution. You have to not read the news paper; you have to not read any journals.
You have to close your mind off to everything that is intelligent. Now, how do I say this? Well when I was in young grade in Orthodox day school. I brought in a book about dinosaurs and my teachers said, “ facts were put here was a test of our faith, the world is only 5,700 years old.
Even as a little kid I know that that was stupid, the world is billion of years old. In order not to believe that, you have to close yourself off to all intelligence. Now, if people are threatened by the first chopper Genesis say “Oh, how could the Bible be a lie?”, I mean if God said, he made the world in seven days, it must be seven days, that is complete Idiomatic idea.
The book of Genesis never said that the scientific book, if fact there is no joke about this, where somebody says to God that, “How long for you is a second, that God says a billion years and how much for you is a Penny in our term and God says a billion dollars.” So the follow says to God, “Can I have your Penny? God says in a second, how do we know that a day for God according to Torah, the first chapter of Genesis is our day? It is more likely billion years and so scientists tell us, the word is 20 billion years old. We just discovered that we think is a planet, 20 million light years away, 20 of light years away, we will be able to visit probably sometime in the future.
That does not contradict anything about faith, it is just none sense. And why are people so threatened with the fact that we evolve from lower organisms? In fact in the Torah says that God created us but is clearly, that is an evolutionary pattern with things building up. You do not like to take the bible literally, it is not meant to be a scientific book, it is meant to teach the most basic ideas about wife and about humanity.
And so, as we think about this in Jewish terms, we reject the phonetics and fundamentalists and simply think it is preposterous to suggest that the world did not evolve, everything evolves in life.
In fact, very interesting in that the discussion among the 10 presidential hopefuls in the 2007 first Presidential Republic in Kennedy debate, the moderator asked, how many of them did not believe in evolution and three out of the 10 actually raised their hands.
But now, there is a huge percentage of Americans who believe in creationism but it is just complete none sense and I am a very religious person. Many religious people do not necessarily believe that the world was created exactly precisely to the minute and day that the Genesis chapter one says it is, simply because the 24 hour day for us could be billion years. In fact, in this supposed plan that was just suggested by Science based on gravitation pull, that is 20 light years away.
Well there, in annual year is 13 days, so the other Torah on the paper said, how long is Christmas, 15 minutes? Who knows what kind of cycle God listen, and so a day for God easily could be billions of years.
I believe as Einstein did, that there is an aero stuttle, there is a creative force that started the Universe but to go from the there to say that every single letter of Genesis chapter one is scientifically true is just complete none sense and unnecessary. You can be as deeply a devoted religious person as conceivable and still except the tenants of science. That is part of the beauty Judaism of intelligence Judaism.
We say in the end of our holiest prayer to Shma [Foreign Language] God is the God of “Emet” of truth. You know about “Emet”, the word “Emet” it has the first letter of the alphabet “alf”, the middle letter of the alphabet “mem” in the last of the alphabet “taf”. Because God contains all wisdom and all truth is contain in God and therefore we believe that God is the God truth, and it as many very important Rabbi throughout history have said, “There is nothing that your ever be discovered in science that we contra deem and contradict the basic tenants of Judaism.
Because Judaism ultimately says, “We believe in truth on us human being given brains by God to discover the truth, we continue to go with were science takes us to not only cut back to contradict religion but to enhance religion.
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