Is the Hebrew Bible Really Anticipating Ideas?

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Yeimean: It would be crazy to think that there was nothing of vale to be found in religious scriptures or traditions. But it's a little bit different to talk about scientific questions verse a sort of a finding purpose and meaning of life questions. He says the hebrew bible literally anticipated ideas that we're now thinking of, or can be used to illuminate them by thinking about them in more metaphorical ways. Yeimean: I don't want to advocate for relating to the text of the he Hebrew bible as saying, well, be this is revelation from the hand of the world's creator.

Erwin Schrödinger’s famous book What Is Life? highlighted the connections between physics, and thermodynamics in particular, and the nature of living beings. But the exact connections between living organisms and the flow of heat and entropy remains a topic of ongoing research. Jeremy England is a leader in this field, deriving connections between thermodynamic relations and the processes of life. He is also an ordained rabbi who finds resonances between modern science and passages in the Hebrew Bible. We talk about it all, from entropy fluctuation theorems to how scientists should approach religion.

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Jeremy England received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University. He is currently Senior Director in the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning group at GlaxoSmithKline. He has been a Rhodes scholar, a Hertz fellow, and was named one of Forbes‘s “30 Under 30 Rising Stars of Science.” His new book is Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things.

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