Q&A: Question about the book God Plays Dice
Question about the book God Plays Dice
Question
Hello Rabbi,
I read your book God Plays Dice and understood the general thrust of what you were saying, though I do have a question.
Regarding the physico-theological argument: our basic assumption is that order and organization in nature at a high level of precision will not arise spontaneously without design. But perhaps the reason we think this is that we are used to everything we build requiring order and organization, and so we project that onto nature as well. Maybe it simply comes from our experience that cars do not come into being without a cause—but who says that also applies to nature?
I realize this is an objection that goes very strongly against intuition, but I still can’t manage to answer it.
Answer
See the third conversation in my book The First Being, or the third notebook here on the site. There I explained that this is a statistical law, or a law of nature (the second law of thermodynamics), and not a subjective matter. Order/complexity does not arise without the involvement of an external factor.