"The Coming Revolution" by Zamir Cohen - Good Laugh

I just received a new book as a gift from my mother. It is a 'scientific' look into how the Bible and Judasim was correct all along. It is written by Zamir Cohen, a prolific writer and Rabbi from Israel.

I started reading this book last night, and I can say that after finishing a couple of chapters I am confident in my analysis of the whole book.

A chapter begins with an incorrect scientific assumption that was prevalent anywhere from a few years ago to a few thousand years ago. This incorrect scientific assumption is then later revealed to be false. The logic from bad science to newly proven good science is backed up with a lot of scientific proof from many different sources in astronomy, chemistry, physics, and many other fields.

Zamir now pulls out a series of quotes from the complete range of Jewish learning, and uses these quotes to prove that Judaism knew the previously stated science, and must have known that from the Jewish God.

At first glance this seems to be really clear proof of how the Jewish God handed over many of the secrets of the world to the Jews, and this proves how Judaism is the one true religion.

There are 2 glaring flaws in all of this. The first flaw is how Zamir ties the quotes to the science.

The first chapter is about the big bang theory. Zamir describes a world where everyone, since the beginning of man's existence, believes that the world had always existed in a steady state. He implies that the Jews were the only group of people to believe that the world didn't always exist as it is today. He then goes on to describe the scientific steps which show a preponderance of proof for a moment of creation (ie the big bang). Now he goes back and shows how the Jews had known this all along.

The scientific community begins to believe in the big bang -> God created the world!

Perhaps this is a bit of a stretch?

The second flaw relates to the astronomical amount of Rabbinical quotes, relating to all areas of life, in the complete range of Jewish learning. The quotes that Zamir chooses are only the ones he can manage to thinly tie to some form of science. Jewish leaders and Rabbis since Judaism began have been passing on knowledge to their students. They would spend their days teaching these students, and much of what they said has been written and passed down. It would be highly unlikely if all of their quotes would be wrong (even the quotes that relate to science). It is much more likely that a few of the things stated would prove to be correct.

Let's take a room full of the insane and write down everything they say. In 10 years, let's see if, of the thousands of jabberings of gibberish, any of them are true. If any of them are true, then I'm converting to Insanism. Clearly they have a window into the truth of the world!

Let's have Zamir Cohen write a book about all of the quotes from even a single book of ancient Jewish learning, and scientifically prove everything in that book. Now that would be a mind-blowing read.