Gerald Schroeder
| Gerald L. Schroeder | |
|---|---|
| Residence | Jerusalem, Israel |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Gerald Lawrence Schroeder is an Orthodox Jewish physicist, author, lecturer and teacher at College of Jewish Studies Aish HaTorah's Discovery Seminar, Essentials and Fellowships programs and Executive Learning Center,[1] who focuses on what he perceives to be an inherent relationship between science and spirituality.
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[edit] Education
Schroeder received his BSc in 1959, his MSc in 1961, and his Ph.D. in nuclear physics and earth and planetary sciences in 1965, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[2] He worked five years on the staff of the MIT physics department. He was a member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.[3]
[edit] Aliyah to Israel
After emigrating to Israel in 1971, Schroeder was employed as a researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Volcani Research Institute, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[4][5] He currently teaches at Aish HaTorah College of Jewish Studies.[6]
[edit] Religious views
His works frequently cite Talmudic, Midrashic and medieval commentaries on Biblical creation accounts, such as commentaries written by the Jewish philosopher Nachmanides. Among other things, Schroeder attempts to reconcile a young Earth creationist Biblical view with the scientific model of a world that is billions of years old using the idea that the perceived flow of time for a given event in an expanding universe varies with the observer’s perspective of that event. He attempts to reconcile the two perspectives numerically, calculating the effect of the stretching of space-time, based on Einstein's theory of general relativity.[7]
Antony Flew, an academic philosopher who promoted atheism for most of his adult life indicated that the fine-tuned universe arguments of Gerald Schroeder convinced him to become a deist.[8][9] In precise adjunct to accurately focus the late Flew's stated position, Flew has concluded his book, There Is A God, wherein he credits Gerald Schroeder at length, with these final words: "I am very much impressed [with] the case for Christianity... Is it possible that there can be or can be divine revelation? As I said, you cannot limit the possibilities of omnipotence except to produce the logically impossible. Everything is open to omnipotence."
[edit] Works
- Genesis and the Big Bang (1990), ISBN 0-553-35413-2
- The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom, (1997), ISBN 0-7679-0303-X
- The Hidden Face of God: Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth, (2002), ISBN 0-7432-0325-9.
- God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along, (2009), ISBN 978-0061710155.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Executive Learning Center Faculty". http://israel.aish.com/elc/faculty.asp. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
- ^ Lowe, Chelsea (Sep/Oct 2006). "Nuclear Scientist Sees No God-Science Conflict". Technology Review. http://alum.mit.edu/news/AlumniProfiles/Archive/Gerald_Schroeder_-2759-2C_SM_-2761-2C_PhD_-2765. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
- ^ Sacks, Brian (2 October 2007). "Where the Bible meets the Big Bang". sullivan-county.com. http://www.sullivan-county.com/x/science.htm. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
- ^ Schroeder, Gerald (Fall 2006). "Finding the Intelligence Within the Design". Jewish Action: 17–22. http://www.ou.org/pdf/ja/5767/fall67/17-22.pdf.
- ^ Gerald Schroeder '59 at the Wayback Machine (archived January 14, 2008)
- ^ "About Dr. Gerald Schroeder". geraldschroeder.com. http://www.geraldschroeder.com/About.aspx. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
- ^ Schroeder, Dr. Gerald. "Age of the Universe". aish.com. http://www.aish.com/print/?contentID=48951136§ion=/ci/sam. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
- ^ Associated Press (14 April 2010). "Antony Flew dies at 87; atheist philosopher who changed his mind late in life". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-antony-flew15-2010apr15,0,4059881.story. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
- ^ Oppenheimer, Mark (4 November 2007). "The Turning of an Atheist". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/magazine/04Flew-t.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
[edit] External links
- Gerald Schroeder (official website)
- MIT Alumni Association. News and Views: Nuclear Scientist Sees No God-Science Conflict
- Dr. Schroeder speaking on cosmology: a 30 min. clip from the documentary, "Has Science Discovered God?"
- "The Age of the Universe", aish.com
- Critiques of Schroeder's books by Mark Perakh at the site Talk Reason 1999, 2005, 2007
- Critique of Genesis & the Big Bang, authored by Rabbi Yoram Bogacz.
