Questions about "God Plays Dice"
Hello Rabbi Avraham,
First, I read your monumental book. It's unfortunate (but understandable) that it doesn't get the exposure it deserves, like, for example, "A Brief History of Humankind" (in my opinion, simplistic and pretentious utopian nonsense). A few questions:
1. Regarding the creation of life. Don't certain life forms come from nothing – worms, for example?
2. You claimed at the beginning of the book that there would be no distinction between theism and deism, and later – between atheism and pantheism. However, you then brought Einstein as an example of faith. But Einstein himself, as I know, claimed that he believed in the way of Spinoza – that is, a pantheist, which is consistent with the way you presented the way he believes, or at least a deist (in any case, not a theist who believed in a private supreme providence).
3. You wrote that the study of prayers is such that its hypothesis cannot be refuted. On the other hand, one could say that it cannot be confirmed either: perhaps the connection between prayers and improvement was coincidental. And why cannot it be refuted? If I myself prayed – I heard the commandments of God, I labored, I chose life – but I did not find it, and neither did rain fall on my land nor did grain and wine grow – isn't this a type of refutation? After all, there is a linear connection in monotheism between actions and results; if that connection is not found in reality? If a righteous person has bad things to do, a wicked person has good things to do – isn't this a refutation?
thanks,
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