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[T]he rational view of nature and history could take shape only after this Jewish concept of God, revealed in various ways, had taught the spirit of man, knowingly or unknowingly, to view all of nature as the work of one, sole Creator and all of history as the plan of one, sole Ruler of the Universe. Judaism knows that even a natural scientist who denies the existence of God actually confirms His existence with every new insight he gains from an idea, a mechanism, or a law of nature he observes in the course of his research. He may insist that there is no God, but his own discoveries attest to the existence of one God Who embodied His thoughts in the particular phenomena observed by the scientist, and Who has made the substances and forces operative in these phenomena subject to His Law. Truly, a scientist who denies the existence of God actually confirms His existence whenever he sets out to study particular phenomena in order to abstract from them the concepts and laws that govern nature and history. The teachings of Judaism have nothing to fear from science.

From “THE RELEVANCE OF SECULAR STUDIES TO JEWISH EDUCATION

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