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Mendel Kaplan
Rabbi Mendel Kaplan is the founder and spiritual leader of Chabad @ Flamingo in Thornhill, Ontario, he also serves as a Chaplain of the York Regional Police Service |
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As a 40+ year Jewish atheist I enjoyed this talk. However it does engage in a number of logical fallacies. First it's meaningless to the argument whether Newton or Einstein were believers. It's interesting, but it has no bearing on the proof either way. The fact that you cannot image infinity (argument from ignorance) has no bearing on whether there is a god or not. You believe in an infinite being, as I guess you were saying just as unimaginable as an infinite universe. But here I have to go with Occam's Razor. Of course it too is proof of nothing, just a general tendency.
In regard to Rabbi Kaplan's comments he engages in a analogy that is frequently used by Joavah Witneeses': The knocked over inkpot, the exploded letters turning into a dictoionary. And this you say is the same as a random universe. Again this is saying that because you can't understand how something occured, it did not' occur.
I am a proud member of our local Chabad and appreciate everything you do.
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The Khazar fictional story was written by Rabbi Yehuda Halevi. This was purposely written as fiction as an exposition on Jewish conversion. There is limited recorded history about the Khazari, but there are a number of sources that mention them including; Jewish, Muslim, Kievan, Byzantine, Georgian and Armenian.
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The story of the Khazar and the rabbi is fiction. The only evidence that the Khazar existed is from Hasdai Ibn Shaprut who heard about them. These types of talks discredit believers.
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Very disappointing talk. Did not engage with any of the atheists key arguments - seemed more interested in personalities, and wooly arguments.
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Why We Believe
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Recently some atheists in academia have launched venomous attacks on religion and belief in G-d. Join us for an up-close examination of religious belief under the critical light of reason. | |
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