Did Hashem use evolution to create the world? A Moment with Rabbi Avigdor Miller Zt"l #830

A Moment with Rabbi Avigdor Miller Zt'l

Did Hashem use evolution to create the world?

Let me explain something. In the olden days, there used to be Rube Goldberg comics. Remember Rube Goldberg comics? It used to make a comic picture of a man who wanted to take a drink of water. So he had all kinds of wheels and cogs that turned machinery, and finally machinery turned machinery, and then there was a dummy, a robot with a glass in his hand, a glass of water. And you were sitting here, so you pressed the button, machinery started working, moving these wheels, moving these wheels, moving these wheels, finally the wheels turned and caused the robot to pour the water into your mouth.

So the question is, why waste all that effort, all that machinery? Take the water and pour it into your mouth yourself. Why do you need a Rube Goldberg contraption to make water come into your mouth?

So you need evolution to create something? If evolution is capable of creating anything wonderful, which it isn't at all, then why did Hakadosh Baruch Hu say Yehi, that's what happened, let it be! And it all started out from the beginning, exactly what it's supposed to be, instead of that great lie that things happen so purposefully by accident.

Could an apple be the result of evolution? You know, the apple is a package of luscious food, and it's mixed better than any chef can mix. It's starch with some little acids in it and sugar in it, exactly the right amount, it tastes good, and then it's wrapped in a beautiful wrapper. With this wrapper, it can stand many days on the table. Once you take the wrapper off, it rots immediately.

Inside, when you finish eating the apple, there's a coupon inside entitled to another package, the seeds. Spit out the seeds and an apple tree will grow out. And the apple seeds have only about a couple of million little bits of information on the DNA helix that tells the apple seed how to produce an apple tree. So all that is the result of an accident? You have to be in a lunatic asylum to think that.

And therefore, anybody with common sense immediately sees an apple is an evidence that Bereishis Boro Elokim. You see, the wisdom of it demonstrates it was made by plan and purpose. And therefore, Hakodosh Boruch Hu, at the beginning, said, "Yehi," and the entire world came into being, finished and ready for use.

Good Shabbos & Yom Tov to all!