Arnie Gotfryd, Ph.D. is an observant Jew and an accomplished environmental scientist secular and religious perspectives from both sides of the fence. He earned Canada's first doctorate in Applied Ecology and taught an award-winning, accredited course on Faith and Science at the University of Toronto. His informative and inspiring presentations are peppered with personal anecdotes, new discoveries, and fresh insights into old-time religion. http://arniegotfryd.com 2010-03-10T02:05:32+01:00 http://arniegotfryd.com http://arniegotfryd.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2006-06-23T01:00:00+01:00 http://arniegotfryd.com http://arniegotfryd.com/content/view/14/52/ When wisdom is not properly utilized, and one forgets to seek the prior causes and sources, truth becomes distorted. It is even possible to deify a particular entity, as a result of forgetting about the original cause -- the Creator of the universe. The Rebbe, Mind Over Matter , p.116 text/html 2007-07-07T01:00:00+01:00 http://arniegotfryd.com http://arniegotfryd.com/content/view/15/52/ The true fusion of secular wisdom with Torah is when one can discenrn aspects of the inner dimension of Torah within the secular wisdom itself. The Rebbe, Mind Over Matter, p.213 text/html 2010-02-15T10:28:25+01:00 http://arniegotfryd.com http://arniegotfryd.com/content/view/352/44/ 3:00 pm, Wednesday afternoon. Instead of getting ready to flee school like the vast majority of other Grade 7 classes, this particular group of 12-year-olds was just gearing up for their daily dose of reading, writing, and 'rithmetic. text/html 2010-02-18T23:00:00+01:00 http://arniegotfryd.com http://arniegotfryd.com/content/view/353/44/ Sooner or later, the question always comes up.Once the human mind develops the capacity to associate cause and effect, everything becomes subject to scrutiny.A young child's endless string of why s testifies to that, as does the physicist's experiments and the businessman's analysis of market conditions. Whether it's how did we get here, what killed the dinosaurs, or why does $4.05 sound like so much more than $3.95, we are fascinated with the story of how one thing leads to another, how the past leads us to the present, and how the now takes us forward. So too it is with that most primordial of cause-and-effect questions: What created G-d?