Rick Sheff, MD, was raised culturally Jewish, but essentially atheist. On Passover, his family would sit around discussing possible scientific explanations for the crossing of the Red Sea during the Exodus.
“I’m sure Moses knew the tide charts,” his father would joke. For them, it was an occasion to remember a political victory led by the historical figure Moses. It wasn’t about God. He learned at an early age that science held the answers to how the world works.
As a medical doctor, Sheff shared experiences with his patients that seemed to defy current medical knowledge. One-by-one, he was able to dismiss each as a rare occurrence, an anomaly. But these “data points,” as he calls them, started to add up.
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