The Movement for Reform Judaism

Science goes hand in hand with religion
written by a guest , October 03, 2006

Thank you for your sermon on Yom Kipur, which lead me to read your lecture. As A scientist of quite a few years and at the forefront of current research, I never found it difficult to reconcile science and God, or most of religion. I was also always pleasantly surprised that so many scientists believe in God. As a scientist, seeing the wonders and complexity of the world and the living systems and understanding their actions only makes me belive in God and religion more.

More questions than answers
written by a guest , October 10, 2006

Thank you for your sermon that I heard at MNS on Kol Nidre. It fitted with the feelings that I have had for many years. As a medical research scientist (recently retired) I came to the conclusion that for every answer received from an experiment, a multiplicity of new questions were posed. There will be no end to the questions for the meaning of life and the universe.
The intricacies and beauty of molecular structure and biochemical pathways has never ceased to amaze me. For example, when a piece of DNA is being replicated there are special enzymes that scan the new DNA strands for errors , mis-matches or breaks and repairs them.
If a certain type of cell is no longer required it is encouraged by certain biochemical processes to commit an orderly suicide (apoptosis) so that its contents do not perturb the function of neighbouring cells.
As the years have gone by I can truly say that the more scienceI have learned the more I have believed in G-D

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written by a guest , October 23, 2006

As a current student on a 'Medieval Jewish Philosophy' class, this essay spoke to me in echo of Judah Ha Levi's Kusari. Less so that the topics are related, rather that it gave a sense of a grandioso trial; and it's eventual conclusion presented what appears to me as a well argued case. I think you should consider publishing something expanding upon it as a short book. Just an idea.