Science, Faith and Creation

This has so helped me ....

Science is man's understanding of what G-d has created.The visible and some invisible.I don't believe I'm related to monkies and apes.I don't swing through trees and eat like they eat.They communicate like an animal.G-d created human beings in his image. G-d communicates, thus we communicate.In the old testament the tower of babel where all the people spoke one language,G-d changed them .That's where all the different people on earth come from.

Thank you

Rabbi Friedman stated that the Jews had the experience of speaking and hearing G-d. Scientic views stress that unless you can duplicate your findings with others, it does not gain validity. This would explain why Jews lost their faith in G-d, since they are unable to see or hear G-d as they once did. It is much easier to place your faith in an Idol, who makes no demands on your behavior before you can get his help. A G-d who demands you follow his rules, but does not give you any reason for having children with handicaps, for Anti-Semitism, or hatred between people makes it difficult to have Faith in an all knowing Lord. His miracle-ability maybe demonstrated daily, but mankind lacks the ability to interprete these events as miracles.

As a traditionally trained chemical engineer I appreciate the rabbi's distinction of the limits of science. many non-scientists, and even some scientists, assume that if a scientist said it it must be true. we are normal people with biases and faults. believing everything a scientist says is not much better than believing all the advertisements on tv. we want you to believe everything we say because it is good for us. otherwise, we would not be smarter than everyone else, which our ego drives us towards. there are many books on this subject and I encourage people to read them. just like getting a second opinion from a doctor, you should not believe everything science tells you, even when we have studied the facts very carefully, we could still be biased without realizing it.
similarly people think science will save the world from the oncoming energy shortages. we will not. we will create and find new things to run out of later. if you want eternal happiness, ask a rabbi to plan for it.

Rabbi Friedman seems to claim that his view of the world being created fully formed is the jewish/torah view while other rabbis dont seem to think so...

see some discussion here in this book
"Immortality, resurrection, and the age of the universe" you can view it on "google books"

I wonder if rabbi friedman has heard of these other views, and has commented elswhere

Rabbi Friedman. Thank you for being the messenger of G-d in His assisting me. I am currently taking a Natural History class as a science requirement in college, and boy am I regretting it. The course is based on evolutionary nonsense etc. I am studying for an exam for the class now, and decided to take a break by going to Chabad.org-some soul nourishment. Lo and behold this video is the first video featured today!! G-d takes care of all our souls!! Thank you again. May you be meritorious to do many more mitzvot.

I really enjoyed this presentation because it makes one think and realize that we do have a purpose. Is it not to perfect the world that G-d created? A couple of points are not clear to me. You mention that how can people that have talked to and experienced G-d then go to worship idols? Certainly our ancestors at Mt. Sinai chose to defy G-d and worship the golden calf, which they were punished for. Likewise Adam was created to be eternal but his eating of the apple from the tree of knowledge made man not eternal but doomed to eventually pass away. Can you help me square this with your proposition.

Thanks for a great lecture. Now on to part two.

I have listened to part one of this teaching twice thus far and plan to listen a few more times. I enjoy your presentation and depth, rendering unto science what belongs to science and ultimately illustrating G-d within, without, and above His creation. This teaching helps me to breathe more freely as it deepens my assurance in a loving and powerful Creator. Thank you.