Yesh Meayin · Second Addendum

Rabbi Benyamin Walters Original Class. Machine transcription (Sofer.ai): expect mistakes, especially in Hebrew terms. Topic headings are auto-generated.

Creation from Nothing Demands Constant Energy Renewal 0:02

The fact that things are created יש מאין, we kind of see that in the fact that things need to be constantly renewed by having new energy. So really, every single moment you're you're using up new energy and you're requiring new energy. The only reason why you don't feel it constantly, which that's like one of the things like a כלי that hides it, is because you're able to eat and store food, so you don't have to constantly eat.

Really, you just stick a bunch of food in you and then your body slowly eats it as it needs it. Really, you're eating all the time, every second, but you only feel yourself eat a couple times a day or something like that.

So that's like the way that God set up the world, like really these things like an essential, inherent aspects of reality, they're happening constantly, every single moment, but then He set it up that it works through a certain vessel that makes it that like you're more conscious of it at certain times.

So like once it gets to a certain point that you start to feel hungry and then you go and eat, you become more aware of that need. But really, it's something that's going on every single moment and it's like it's actually part of the definition of biological life. When like I learned biology, one of the things that defined a living organism is that it uses energy.

Biology Defines Life by Energy Use 1:04

That means it needs to eat, that it uses up energy to build itself into what it is and to, you know, live and do what it's doing.

You know what I mean? You don't need to feed a rock, you need to feed your dog, 'cause the rock doesn't use up energy and your dog does.

What's the implication? A show of how it needs constant renewal, because it has to constantly rebuild itself anew and or else it would go back to being dirt. Yeah, but we're we're not just sticking the food in our mouth, but the ability to be renewed and whatever, that's just like a way that we have that perception of that fact that our our being is not inherent, that God wants to show us that we don't have to be here.

Not only that, it's unnatural for us to be here. That's the thing of something that's יש מאין. Something that's יש מאין is an unnatural state, and it requires constant creative energy to make it be there. That's the way it is for like a living thing. A living thing has to constantly fight entropy to exist.

Entropy and the Fight Against Decay 2:15

Entropy is the second law of thermodynamics, that things will revert to the most simple state without, you know, something exerting force on it to build into a complex thing. So people are very complex, and so people require a lot of energy to constantly be built up into a person, and they're very fragile, and that people will very quickly decay back into dirt.

People decay the fastest when they die because they're the most unnatural. Then comes animals, then plants. But it's now it's a constant fight to take molecules and build them into an organism, which is a very complex, highly organized thing. It's very unnatural for them to be like that, and it requires constant renewal and force, and the body has to constantly fix itself and like repair and and get rid of the bad, old stuff and bring in the new stuff, and if that process of getting rid of the old bad stuff and getting new stuff gets messed up, then it will die, and it will start to just go back to being what it was before.

So it's constantly renewing itself. Like every seven years, you are all new. Your body's all new stuff every seven years. Yeah, it's all the time trying to die, and you have to forcefully make it live.

It's like a computer screen. The image that you see on the screen is not natural. You have to have magnets pulling an electron beam, which needs to be energized, that has to be pulled across the screen very quickly and manipulated in exactly the right way to make that image. So it requires a lot of energy. If you unplug it, it's going to stop.

Yeah, but if you look at the world, you see that it doesn't need a lot of energy to be to be to you see that that In other words, the natural state of the world should be simple matter without any form. Even as far even as far even before you look past the existence of physical matter, once you just have physical matter, there should just be this simple blob of physical matter.

And really, even that requires a creative force, but let's say that's a given. To make that into rocks and people and plants and squirrels and all these things requires a tremendous amount of energy like being exerted on it. It has to be like constantly pushed in that direction by something. And not only that, like scientists say that the existence of physical matter out of energy is such an exact state that to get it to be like that and to maintain it is like ridiculous, that like they just the chance of energy coagulating into one molecule, the the conditions that would be required to do that are so astounding, it's like a bigger miracle that one atom exists is like more astonishing than the fact that like they could evolve into people.

People don't realize how unnatural it is for the world to be so complex like that. According to science, it's very unnatural. It requires constant conditions that are fighting the law of entropy and forcing it to take on this form.

It doesn't make sense to say it's going on its own because it requires constant, exact force and has to be like maintained in an exact state.

If God wanted to make the world a system, then He would make it that its natural state is to be like this. It doesn't make sense to say that the world is meant to just be like a natural thing that goes on its own because it's set up in a way where it requires constant maintenance and constant surveillance and adjustment, you know what I mean, to like maintain the way it is.

It's like a very unstable state. The world is like very unstable, you know what I mean? So, like, if you wanted to make something, you would try to make it very stable. You're not going to make this thing that requires like these like crazy like machines and like computers to like constantly monitor it and like, you know what I mean, make these fine-tune adjustments to like make it maintain this really crazy state to make some like particle, you know what I mean?

If you wanted it to just like be like a system that you could just set running and leave. That's the thing, like eating is just an example that makes you conscious of, but really when you look into it, that's the way everything is every second.

It's constantly being maintained by some force that's like pushing it like that. And by the way, even eating isn't a good enough answer, because eating is just the raw energy. But then there's a force that is exerting the form on your body and making your body build itself into שמואל.

And that is a spiritual force that doesn't that's like a intelligent, spiritual force. And then like even like you're going to explain to me how the DNA works, but then like, well, what gave it the properties that it does that? Why is it that DNA has the property that it's able to that like when it comes in contact with these chemicals, it will cause a certain reaction that makes creates an amino acid?

DNA Mechanics and Cellular Complexity 7:04

Like, you know, that's what DNA is. It's like this crazy It's like this Well, the DNA is like this blueprint thing, and then your body makes these little copies of pieces of it called RNA, which then go outside of the nucleus, and then when they are only like a half of the DNA thing, because of their structure, they like will cause chemicals to like combine around them in a certain order, which creates these really complex amino acids and proteins and all these different things.

And then those will then go, you know, and like it keeps building up. Like they'll make certain things do certain things and make a certain form. And then when those things will cause other things to happen and like, so it builds up this whole thing. But it's like the whole system is this crazy thing that's set up. Why is it even able to do that?

Yeah, even one human cell is just like so And not even a human cell, like a plant cell, any cell is just like so ridiculously complex. Not only that, this is one of the the arguments against evolution is that that that they thought that like the more complex a life form is, the more complex its DNA is. So, it's like becoming, you know, it's like becoming more complex.

DNA Size vs Complexity: Evolution Argument 8:42

But actually, it's not like that. Corn has much more DNA than we do. It's a much more complex DNA than we do. That that's the thing they used to think that would they wouldn't be able to map out the human DNA map because they thought that, well, corn has like a certain number, which is like this huge number, and so people must be like much more. And then they found out that people are actually much less, and they actually finished mapping it out already.

And like the human DNA is relatively simple compared to a lot of things. I mean, the world is just really this huge, crazy, amazing, miraculous paradox and like all these crazy things happening that are like so mind-boggling. And then what happens is people give these like general explanations that kind of sound good and that seem to explain at least like some general phenomena.

But if you really look into like what's going on, it's totally beyond any of these explanations. It's a big scam. It's like trying to predict the stock market. You can talk about these general trends and whatever and things forces that influence and whatever, but that doesn't make it like a system, like a mechanistic system that you can predict that's deterministic.

Really, what science is doing is the same thing as like, you know, some cult that takes some general explanation about and like attacks it on On to some little, you know, experiment, they're making like an energy ball or something, and they tack on this whole philosophy onto that experience and make it as if like that proves it. Because that's what they do, they take these like little examples of things where like which show something, and then they make this whole worldview which denies like so many contradictory facts, like, "Well, you know, I didn't figure out everything yet."

You know what I mean? And there's just like this whole illusion of having everything figured out that science tries to project. They didn't figure out like anything. As much as they figured out, they don't, there's nothing that they can explain to you from beginning to end how it works. Not one thing.