March 18, 2018
My Theory of Everything
Stephen Hawking certainly was right about one thing, even if he was wrong about others. "Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet," Hawking said. "And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."
Sure, look up at the stars and dream and ponder and question and fantasize, maybe even theorize. Try to make sense of the universe, and one day you might be a great philosopher or a theoretical physicist or even...a rabbinic scholar. And even if this doesn't happen, at a minimum, you will join the ranks of most humans who, since the dawn of time, looked to the heavens trying to make sense of it all – an irresistible pastime that seems to be inherent in our collective DNA.
But is there room in the dreaming and stargazing for those who believe in both science and the divine, or are the two mutually exclusive, as today so many...(Read Full Article)