• The Verdict
    • Introduction
    • Insight 1 - Fatal Flaw in Godless Evolution
    • Insight 2 - Our World is Not Natural
    • Insight 3 - The “I” of the Universe
    • Insight 4 - Thoughts and Emotions have a Spiritual Dimension
    • Insight 5 - Genesis and the Age of the Universe
    • Insight 6 - The Kohanim – Live Evidence
    • Insight 7 - Abraham to Moses – A Probable Story
    • Insight 8 - The 10th Commandment and the Politics of Envy
    • Insight 9 - The Significance of Moses’ Humility
    • Insight 10 - 4 000 Year Context of Jewish History
    • Insight 11 - God’s Love for Us
    • Insight 12 - The Flood a Localised Phenomenon
    • Insight 13 - The Significance of the Full Moon on the First Night of Passover
    • Insight 14 - Detail in Torah
    • Insight 15 - Why a Chosen People
    • Conclusion
    • 17,000rpm !!! The Clearest and Easiest Understood Proof
    • Gears!!! More of the Clearest and Easiest Understood Proof
    • The Mystery of the Origin of Organic Life
    • ​The Spiritual Cell
    • "The Soul of the White Ant"
    • Multiple Impossibilities
    • Darwin Demolished
    • One Idea
    • Ethical Will
    • Flight and God
    • A Thought On Suffering
    • The Centrality of Love
    • They Left At Night
    • Postscript >
      • Reason 1 - Eighth Day Best for Circumcision
      • Reason 2 - The Torah Correctly Identifies Only 4 Animals with certain Unkosher Characteristics
      • Reason 3 - Scientific Proof Kohanim have Common Ancestor
      • Reason 4 - Care in Preserving Text of the Torah
      • Reason 5 - Children of Israel and Heroes of the Torah Depicted Negatively
      • Reason 6 - Children of Israel not Originally Indigenous
      • Reason 7 - Aaron’s Sons Die on an Important Day
      • Reason 8 - Moses does Not Enter the Promised Land
      • Reason 9 - No Circumcision in the Desert
      • Reason 10 - Only the Torah Claims a Mass Revelation
      • Reason 11 - Mass Revelation Proves Authenticity
      • Reason 12 - Daily Manna for 40 years Could Not be falsely claimed
      • Reason 13 - Parents Don’t Tell their Children Facts they Know to be False
      • Reason 14 - Isaac and Jacob Marry Aramaean Wives – Aram later Israel’s Enemy
      • Reason 15 - Compelling Memory of Egypt and Disgrace of having been Slaves
      • Reason 16 - Dramatic Changes by the Torah to the Ethos of the World
      • Reason 17 - Prophecies in the Torah
      • Reason 18 - Survival of the Jewish People Foretold
      • Reason 19 - Deeply Entrenched Belief
      • Reason 20 - Archaeology on Sojourn in and Exodus from Egypt
      • Reason 21 - Archaeology on Conquest of Canaan
      • Reason 22 - No Archaeology in conflict with Torah
      • Reason 23 - A Bold Statement No Human Being Would Make
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  The Verdict

Introduction


​I began practising as an advocate of what was then known as the Supreme Court of South Africa in 1967. In 1982, I was appointed senior counsel, and in 1987, became a judge of that Court. I retired as a judge in 2008 and have since practised as an arbitrator. For 50 years, I have been intimately concerned with litigation involving a great variety of cases, including those of murder, fraud, corruption, divorce and contractual, corporate, delictual and labour disputes of all kinds.

Litigation involves essentially two enquiries: what is the law and what is the truth about the facts in dispute? In virtually every case, the facts and the search for the truth are much more complicated and difficult than the law. After studying and painstakingly analysing factual disputes for 50 years, I have become much more of a mechanic of fact – a mechanic of establishing the truth – than a mechanic of the law.

I have applied the expertise of my lifelong experience in analysing facts and assessing truth to two central questions: does God exist and is the Torah - the Five Books of Moses- true?

Much has been written on these two questions, and I do not intend repeating at length arguments which are well known and have assisted me in reaching my conclusion. I have restricted the insights which follow to those I believe to be substantially original. The task of the advocate in preparing a closing argument and that of the judge in formulating a judgment is to extract from a multitude of facts and factors those which are crucial and then to state them as concisely and as easily comprehensibly as possible. That is how I have tried to write The Verdict.

Insights 1 – 4 are about the existence of God, and Insights 5 – 15 about the authenticity of the Five Books of Moses.

The advantage of the digital presentation of The Verdict is that additions or corrections can be made at any time and need not await further editions, as is the case with a book. The launch of the website in July 2017 was followed by changes in some of the Insights, as well as radio interviews and videos, and snippets of  videos, which were added to the site. Thereafter “New Insights on the Existence of God” - 11, “New Insights on the Authenticity of the Torah” - 2, and a “Postscript”, containing “More Reasons for the Authenticity of the Torah, mainly from the literature” - 23, were added. 

​“Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.”
  - Mark Van Doren

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Introduction
​Insight 1
​Insight 2
Insight 3
Insight 4
Insight 5
Insight 6
Insight 7
Insight 8

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Insight 9
​Insight 10
Insight 11
Insight 12
​Insight 13
​Insight 14
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Insight 15
Conclusion

New Insights on the Existence of God
17000rpm!!! The Clearest and Easiest Understood Proof
Gears!!! More of the Clearest and Easiest Understood Proof
The Mystery of the Origin of Organic Life
​The Spiritual Cell
The Soul of the White Ant
Multiple Impossibilities
Darwin Demolished
One Idea
Ethical Will
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Flight and God
A Thought on Suffering

​New Insights on the Authenticity of the Torah
The Centrality of Love
They Left At Night

More Reasons for the Authenticity of the Torah, mainly from the literature
​Postscript
Introductory
Reason 1
Reason 2
Reason 3
Reason 4
Reason 5
Reason 6
Reason 7
Reason 8
Reason 9
Reason 10
Reason 11

​Reason 12
Reason 13
Reason 14
Reason 15
Reason 16
Reason 17
Reason 18
Reason 19
Reason 20
Reason 21
Reason 22
Reason 23
  • The Verdict
    • Introduction
    • Insight 1 - Fatal Flaw in Godless Evolution
    • Insight 2 - Our World is Not Natural
    • Insight 3 - The “I” of the Universe
    • Insight 4 - Thoughts and Emotions have a Spiritual Dimension
    • Insight 5 - Genesis and the Age of the Universe
    • Insight 6 - The Kohanim – Live Evidence
    • Insight 7 - Abraham to Moses – A Probable Story
    • Insight 8 - The 10th Commandment and the Politics of Envy
    • Insight 9 - The Significance of Moses’ Humility
    • Insight 10 - 4 000 Year Context of Jewish History
    • Insight 11 - God’s Love for Us
    • Insight 12 - The Flood a Localised Phenomenon
    • Insight 13 - The Significance of the Full Moon on the First Night of Passover
    • Insight 14 - Detail in Torah
    • Insight 15 - Why a Chosen People
    • Conclusion
    • 17,000rpm !!! The Clearest and Easiest Understood Proof
    • Gears!!! More of the Clearest and Easiest Understood Proof
    • The Mystery of the Origin of Organic Life
    • ​The Spiritual Cell
    • "The Soul of the White Ant"
    • Multiple Impossibilities
    • Darwin Demolished
    • One Idea
    • Ethical Will
    • Flight and God
    • A Thought On Suffering
    • The Centrality of Love
    • They Left At Night
    • Postscript >
      • Reason 1 - Eighth Day Best for Circumcision
      • Reason 2 - The Torah Correctly Identifies Only 4 Animals with certain Unkosher Characteristics
      • Reason 3 - Scientific Proof Kohanim have Common Ancestor
      • Reason 4 - Care in Preserving Text of the Torah
      • Reason 5 - Children of Israel and Heroes of the Torah Depicted Negatively
      • Reason 6 - Children of Israel not Originally Indigenous
      • Reason 7 - Aaron’s Sons Die on an Important Day
      • Reason 8 - Moses does Not Enter the Promised Land
      • Reason 9 - No Circumcision in the Desert
      • Reason 10 - Only the Torah Claims a Mass Revelation
      • Reason 11 - Mass Revelation Proves Authenticity
      • Reason 12 - Daily Manna for 40 years Could Not be falsely claimed
      • Reason 13 - Parents Don’t Tell their Children Facts they Know to be False
      • Reason 14 - Isaac and Jacob Marry Aramaean Wives – Aram later Israel’s Enemy
      • Reason 15 - Compelling Memory of Egypt and Disgrace of having been Slaves
      • Reason 16 - Dramatic Changes by the Torah to the Ethos of the World
      • Reason 17 - Prophecies in the Torah
      • Reason 18 - Survival of the Jewish People Foretold
      • Reason 19 - Deeply Entrenched Belief
      • Reason 20 - Archaeology on Sojourn in and Exodus from Egypt
      • Reason 21 - Archaeology on Conquest of Canaan
      • Reason 22 - No Archaeology in conflict with Torah
      • Reason 23 - A Bold Statement No Human Being Would Make
  • Contents and Estimated Reading Times In Seconds
  • Videos
  • Podcasts
  • Contact us
  • 17,000rpm !!! Gears!!! The Clearest and Easiest Understood Proof