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Podcast: The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton
Episode: S6, E5 Shemona Perakim; Scientific Knowledge and its Basis in the Eternity of the Universe
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Highlights:
Maimonides' definition of scientific knowledge
Science and permanent, unchanging rules
Science, reason and the eternity of the universe
The definition of scientific knowledge according to Aristotle, and the eternity of the universe a parte ante and a parte post
Maimonides believes that the universe will always exist in the future
The duality of God's wisdom and His will; how creation is His will that there be wisdom
The world, created ex nihilo, was created as something that must have existed eternally
The age of the universe
The proof to the existence of the deity and the eternity of...