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The peculiarities of the laws of nature and a military vehicle for eight people at a time

שו”תCategory: Torah and ScienceThe peculiarities of the laws of nature and a military vehicle for eight people at a time
asked 10 months ago

You mentioned the story after an accident you had, where a passing car, just by chance, at night, stopped and picked up eight of you. There were other details that made the story rare and special. And yet you said that because you don’t know how many such cases happen and how many of them turn out well, it’s impossible to know if there’s really a “miracle” here or just statistics. In other words, even a case that seems rare and special to us cannot be objectively selected without seeing the number of times it happens.
I want to ask about the specialness of the laws of nature – we have no examples of other laws of nature or other universes that have been created, we only know of one case, the one we live in, how can we claim that it is special and requires intervention?
 


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מיכי Staff answered 10 months ago
It is possible to know whether a case is special. The case in Gedera was very special, and the creation of the world is certainly like that. The question I was dealing with is, assuming it is special, what is the chance that it was created on its own (without a guiding hand). In the case of Gedera, there are lots of cars in lots of places and times, so it requires examination. In the case of the world, we do not know of even one other case.

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ירון replied 10 months ago

How can we know that the probability is low, for an event that has only happened once to our knowledge, and we don't know how it happened and whether others have happened?

מיכי Staff replied 10 months ago

There is no probability here because there is no event space and distribution. There is probability. And of course common sense.

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