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Q&A: The Creation of the World: Miracle or Nature?

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The Creation of the World: Miracle or Nature?

Question

Hello to the wisest of men, may he live long. The Rabbi has emphasized many times that there is no such thing as a miracle within nature, and that if something happened according to natural law, even if there was almost no chance it would happen, it is just a rare event.
The main point of the Rabbi’s approach to evolution is that the proof of intelligent design lies outside the laws. Nevertheless, in your book God Plays Dice, the Rabbi argues in various ways that evolution also had no statistical chance of developing; not only do the laws of nature create perfection, but also that an intelligent agent supervised what was happening and made sure that the right molecule would emerge from an ocean of dead molecules.
And this is very difficult for me, because the Rabbi should presumably see this as only a rare case, not as something that someone made sure would happen. Fine—outside the laws we see order and organization regardless of statistics, but within them, if something happened subject to the laws of nature, then according to the Rabbi it is just a case, even if it is very rare. So how did the Rabbi see this as a miracle?

Answer

The argument is twofold: the probability within the laws is negligible, and therefore if it happened, there is a guiding hand. And if the laws are built in a way that makes this likely (or certain), then the argument shifts to an argument from the laws themselves. I explained this also in my articles on Ynet and in the article on evolution.

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