Do we understand everything science are saying, or we just believe they are smart people so we agree [belief?] with things they are saying?
But science is by using our brain ability…
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Rabbi Chaim Goldberg
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Yes, the philosophical method (as developed e.g. Aristotle and his ‘Rabbi Plato’ as you said) has certain scientific limits, which are defined by the nature of mathematical logic (Kurt Gödel has proven this). So, for example, the Jewish idea of creation (created manner) is not compatible with the Aristotelian assumption of eternal matter. The Septaguinta uses the word making and not creating, because the Greek linguistic horizon was defined by making something out of something.
Western thought (including the philosophy in Israel) has taken this assumption of eternal matter uncritically ‘as hidden creed’, while Kalam philosophers and Maimonides refuted this ‘implicit dogma’.
Nice, Thanks.
Don’t forget that as you said “the Greek linguistic horizon was defined by making something out of something” is trou only because we can’t see an example of “creating something out from nothing” – only the prophet start with this assumption.