Q&A: The Lawfulness of the Universe
The Lawfulness of the Universe
Question
The Rabbi proves in his books the existence of God from the fact that there is causality in the world.
My question is about the assumption of causality—who says that causality is valid?
And even if it is valid today, who says that causality has always been valid? Maybe the universe changed over time?
Answer
And who says that I exist? Or that I’ll still exist in another minute to answer you? Nobody said that causality is valid. If you assume that there is causality, that indicates that you believe. I discussed this reverse logic in the fourth booklet (and in the first book of the trilogy).
Discussion on Answer
I’m not familiar with that. There is one person who consistently claims this, and after pressure they removed his lecture from TED. I forgot his name. But even he doesn’t talk about a change in the laws, only about small changes in the values of the constants.
There’s another possibility: that everything that can exist does exist… and we are a particular case of existence, existing in a universe where our existence is possible, which looks like a universe that sustains causality.
And if everything that is possible to exist does exist, then in this particular case there is no way to prove anything about the general case.
This argument from causality might work only if you prove that this is the only possible form of existence (independently of us human beings).
I heard that there are researchers and scientists who reached the conclusion that the laws of the world have changed over the years, and that the laws that exist today are not necessarily fixed like “iron” in the universe. Does the Rabbi know these researchers and scientists, and if so, what does the Rabbi think about them and their studies?