Highlights:

Maimonides' definition of scientific knowledge

Science and permanent, unchanging rules

Science, reason and the eternity of the universe

The definition of scientific knowledge according to Aristotle, and the eternity of the universe a parte ante and a parte post

Maimonides believes that the universe will always exist in the future

The duality of God's wisdom and His will; how creation is His will that there be wisdom

The world, created ex nihilo, was created as something that must have existed eternally

The age of the universe

The proof to the existence of the deity and the eternity of the universe

R' Y. Emden's criticism of the 1st chapter of Mishneh Torah and its reference to the eternity of the universe a parte ante

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