The Study, Ep.1 with Mayim Bialik

Woah, I want to tell you about my newest favorite podcast, The Study, hosted by Raviv Ullman and Rabbi Adam Greenwald. In their first episode Mayim Bialik is their guest, and in one part of the episode they discuss about how Judaism is being comfortable with or “resting with” contradictions, i.e. the two creation stories in Genesis chapter one where humankind (both male and female) is created in God’s image, and then in chapter two a woman is created from Adam.

A night before I listened to this episode, I was talking with a friend about God, and I told him how I marvelled at the eyeball, the fact that it was so intricate and detailed and complex but worked (for most of us) perfectly. Well, lo and behold, the next day this podcast episode came out and Mayim Bialik raised the exact same point, but explained it in a much clearer and intelligent way than I:

Everything I learned in science illuminates my appreciation for the divinity of the universe because I can't create that. If you know anything about how the eyeball works and I don't just mean like ‘Oh it's these things that see things, they project in your brain’ like the details of the cells that produce the ability for us to experience light and dark… is so unbelievably intricate that it doesn't make me say ‘See there's a God!’ it makes me say: ‘See I didn't create that!’ I can barely even wrap my head around it but it exists and that's the kind of Duality that I experienced when I see science and divinity.