Torah Truth

The beginning of Torah outlines the process of the Creation. From “The Beginning” to the creation of the first man Adam. There are great articles already available on Internet and in printed books on this topic. Particularly recommended are written by a distinguished scientist, Professor of MIT Dr. Gerald Schroeder who provides outstanding Biblical and scientific details to the topic. But before we send our reader to the articles by Dr. Schroeder, we want to provide a wider view on the topic.

Life, as we observe it, is an extraordinary complex phenomena in both microcosmic and macroscopic appearance.

This observed complexity follows the LAWS OF NATURE, the understanding of which is the whole goal of the human science. The premise of scientific mind is that once we understand the LAWS OF NATURE we know where this world comes from and whence where a life “evolves” from.

Yet, the very basic scientific discoveries (even those put into the “foundation” of modern science) hardly can get us any closer towards such a goal. Observe the “basics” – the laws of thermodynamics:

First law of thermodynamics:

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only change forms. or In any process, the total energy of the universe remains the same. – So, if this is the total amount of energy science is dealing with, then where does it come from?

Second law of thermodynamics:

The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.

Or in a simple manner, the second law states that energy systems have a tendency to increase their entropy rather than decrease it. Entropy is a measure of chaos or chaotic movements or randomness of molecules in a system. Spontaneous changes, in isolated systems, occur with an increase in entropy. So, this simply means that according to the LAWS OF NATURE only such process are possible as death, decay, errosion and, even more simply, the destruction of the more complex forms into the simple forms is possible. Opposite to this, the “appearance” of the complext forms, is not result of this law, is not increase of enthropy as the law observed, but, quite opposite, …

the result of the intelligent design and creation.

The Big Bang discovery (which articles and books of Dr. Schroeder deals with in much details) tells us that:

1. All the laws of nature which science is chasing after, started at a certain point in history: about 15 billion years ago – from “The Beginning“. So, to answer the main quest of the science, what was before that? Now, at this point, the question itself is not perceived as “scientific” any more, but crossing into the metaphysical…
2. From where (or may we ask “From Whom”) this given total sum of energy, the thermodynamics tells us about, come from ? If we try to follow some physicists who say that all the energy of the universe was compressed in the tiny point (no universe yet…), then we may persist asking where this compressed energy come from… another micro explosion ?
3. And, since there was a point of the beginning of this universe, the most “unscientific” question of all : what was the purpose of the Big Bang and the subsequent “appearance” (to escape word “creation”) of complex life forms ?

Another highly recommended reading which is very useful preprequisite to reading parsha Bareishit is the book “The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles” By Professor Bruce H. Lipton (see www.nrucelipton.com). This book reveals an amazing phenomenon : the discovery of the consciousness in every living cell …

And now we point you to the wisdom and knowledge of Dr. Schroeder on the AISH website:

http://www.aish.com/societyWork/sciencenature/Age_of_the_Universe.asp

http://www.aish.com/societyWork/sciencenature/Evolution_Rationality_vs._Randomness.asp

http://www.aish.com/societywork/sciencenature/The_Fine_Tuning_of_the_Universe.asp