I was invited to contribute to “My Elevator Pitch for God”—a project that asks philosophers, theologians, and scientists to make their best case for God’s existence in 500 words.
The constraint forced a difficult exercise: how do you compress arguments spanning millennia of philosophy, physics, and Jewish thought into a single page? My solution was to write a 500-word synopsis—touching on the cosmological argument, fine-tuning, the problem of change, teleology, and the soul’s receptivity to transcendence—with extensive endnotes that develop each argument in depth.
Readers of QuantumTorah will recognize some familiar themes, including the impossibility of proving G-d’s existence.
You can read the full essay with all endnotes here: https://www.myelevatorpitchforgod.com/all-authors/alexander-poltorak.
I welcome your thoughts.
