In 1768, Antoine Lavoisier, father of modern chemistry, declared, “Stones don’t fall from the sky, because there are no stones in the sky!” Many museums in Europe actually threw out their meteorite specimens, considering them nothing more than superstition.
In 1865, a man named Joshua Coppersmith was arrested in New York for attempting to raise funds from the “ignorant and superstitious” for a device he claimed would convey the human voice at any distance over metallic wires. He called it a telephone. Journalists supported his incarceration.
In 1903, just weeks prior to the first flight at Kitty Hawk, Simon Newcomb, professor of mathematics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, published an article proving that powered human flight was “utterly impossible.” When the Wright brothers claimed to have built a flying machine, it was dismissed as a hoax by the scientific journals, newspapers, the US military, and most American scientists.
In 1957, Britain’s Astronomer Royal, Sir Harold Spencer Jones, famously said “space travel is bunk” only two weeks before Sputnik 1 was launched into space by the Russians.
Faith is something that is embedded in the human condition. Belief in a higher power is something that humanity as a whole has always sought after. Faith can be cultivated if it seems to have been lost.
The religious impulse seems to be rooted in the biology of the brain. Evidence suggests that faith is not a delusion or a manifestation of wishful thinking but rather a chain of neurological events that can be objectively observed, recorded, and actually photographed. For lack of a better term, God is hard-wired into the human brain.
This mini-book, an abridged adaptation of Pillars of Faith, attempts to clearly explain reasonable approaches to belief in God, as well as addressing some of the hang-ups and hesitations which are common in our society, such as bad things happening to good people. I believe that the spiritual seeker and skeptic alike will be able open their minds to the existence of God. In addition to being a starting point for those who find themselves at the potential beginning of their spiritual journey, this book also offers the faithful person a resource to solidify his own beliefs and outlooks.
Pizza With A Rabbi is a fresh outlook on what it means to be Jewish.
New York Times bestselling Author Robert Shemin combines forces with Rabbi Pinchas Taylor to shed light into some of the common Orthodox Jewish Religious practices!
This fun and contemporary peek into an ancient tradition translates what for many of onlookers appears strange and sometimes even oppressive. Jewish born, but non religious Shemin ponders what many of us have been wondering but have been afraid to ask!
Laced with humor and snappy examples this must read book is entertaining as well as informative! Dive into a fun translation of ancient traditions!
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