Tuesday, April 17, 2007

My debate with my skeptic friend

Skeptic:

How could you say the Torah is a Divine book when it seems to be very wrong about the creation of the universe, the flood etc.

Me:

That you could ask such a question shows how puny is your intellect. What you do not understand is that Torah & Science are on different planes.

Skeptic:

What the Hell is that supposed to mean? What happened? Did the Big Bang happen or was Adam made from clay? These are two very different stories. If the Big Bang happened, then the creation story is wrong. It’s false. It’s not on a different plane.

Me:

Science is trying to figure out what is real and true. Religion is trying to figure out what has meaning.

Skeptic:

Then you admit religion is wrong.

Me:

No. It is on a different plane. The meaning plane.

Skeptic:

You are not making any sense. Look it. If I were to go back 10,000 years. Were there or were there not people there? If those people existed, isn’t the Torah wrong when it says Adam was created from clay.

Me:

The answer to your question depends on which plane you visited. The “meaning plane” is at a 37 degree angle from the “what actually happened plane.” Two planes in a 3 dimensional topology at 37 degree angles would only intercept in one line. As any child knows, the Ruv spoke about Adam I and Adam II and there are actually two universes. There are two emunahpshutas and two Earths. One on each plane. They only intercept over one line.

Skeptic:

Ok, so what about at that point of interception?

Me:

That corresponds to the one detail the Torah got right.

Skeptic:

And which was that?

Me:

Hmm….. I can’t think of any at the moment. But I’m sure there is at least one. God isn’t that stupid.

Skeptic:

That’s is ridiculous. I give up. I’m out a here.

Ad Kan.

And, there you have it. Once again, I have bested a skeptic in a debate and forced him to run away.