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Some who have been reading my newsletter know that lately I have taken to spelling the supreme being as G-d with a hyphen as part of my (very) fledgling spiritual journey. Many of the more devout Jews do that out of respect for what in the Christian tradition St. Anselm described as “that which nothing greater can be conceived.” The name of the creator of the universe is too holy for humans to write out.
But I am reverting to type today, calling God God, in order not to distract from a story my wife showed me from the June 26 Jerusalem Post. This story is the best argument I have seen for intelligent design, a concept I dismissed for decades basically in the manner of Wikipedia, which calls it ”pseudoscience.” They are in disagreement with Seattle’s Discovery Institute, which describes ID this way: “Certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.”…
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