See what I wrote here: https://mikyab.net/posts/3516

Thanks for addressing it—it’s very important to me.
But correct me if I’m wrong—the Rabbi said that in the past people in science were believers, etc. But if I’m not mistaken, those “sages” were first and foremost religious men—priests and the like—and some of them were also scientists. Today people come from a neutral background, so…
And besides, doesn’t the fact that science from a hundred years ago is fundamentally different from today’s science change anything? (True, that’s not related to the issue of “thinking outside the limits,” but still…)

It wasn’t fashion. They would excommunicate you or put you to death. Need I remind you about Spinoza? Or Giordano Bruno? Beyond that, the science of their time was ignorance compared to the science of our time. They had gaps, and they projected them onto belief in God. As for the percentages he talks about, he’s not just making them up out of thin air; it’s well known from those studies that the intelligence of believers is lower than that of non-believers. What’s your explanation for that? (By the way, according to those percentages, you are below the percentage of philosophers who believe.)

The sweeping dismissal of the argument in the video competes quite respectably with the level of the video itself.

I only saw the beginning and not the rest, but at the start he said that the question in the survey is about personal prayer, and not necessarily belief in God. (For example, Einstein could be an example of someone who believes in God but would not accept personal prayer.)
If so, maybe it does not reflect at all on the kind of question you’re asking here…

Same thing. Einstein did not believe in God; he was an atheist playing with the semantics of the word “God,” like Spinoza.

“A doctorate here is a good representation, because a doctorate is a measure of your ability to think independently of the thoughts of your predecessors” (from the video). Huh?!
If that’s the level of the arguments, I join Rabbi Michi’s question…

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A. That is very unclear.
In any case, I think you still haven’t understood the serious problem with the video—that it reflects nothing at all….
And I didn’t want to write this here explicitly, but there are several important people here on the site who believe both in God and in the Torah, and probably also in the Thirteen Principles. But in the survey they would show up as atheists…

Tz,
Interesting—could you elaborate?

Let’s just say that the numbers he tosses into the air are probably not only inflated, but also baseless.

Tzachi, you’re welcome to take a look here:
https://mikyab.net/%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA/%d7%a9%d7%90%d7%9c%d7%94-%d7%9c%d7%90%d7%9e%d7%95%d7%a0%d7%94

I retract what I said here that Einstein was an atheist. When he was asked whether he was a pantheist, he replied: “I am not an atheist. I do not know whether I can define myself as a pantheist.” To get a fuller perspective, one should read the book ‘Einstein and Religion’; I haven’t read it yet.