Q: What are the scientists really trying to prove by planning expensive space trips to Mars to look for signs of life?

A: That’s a subject I wanted to talk about.

First of all we have to understand that the Torah doesn’t say there’s no life on Mars. The Torah says there’s no man on Mars. The Torah says, man is only on this world. When Hakodosh Boruch Hu said, “תדשא הארץ דשא – grass should begin to grow,” grass began growing all over the world, it could be grass is growing on other planets too. Who cares? It doesn’t say grass didn’t grow over there OR there. תדשא הארץ דשא. But adam, there was only one adam. He was down here. He had no means of getting to Mars. So there won’t be any adam on Mars.

But even the fact that they’re claiming life on Mars is nothing but sheker v’kozov. It’s nothing but propaganda. And the NASA wants to take millions of dollars of our kosher money, we worked hard and to waste it in order to help bolster their theory that it’s an accident. We’re an accident. Once upon a time it was nothing but oxygen and nitrogen and hydrogen and carbon dioxide. And they got together by accident and became a man. You have to believe that bobbe ma’aseh, fairytale.

It’s the most insane idea ever proposed. The ancients would have ridiculed it, but they have no way out. You see, the world is so complicated with wisdom, you must admit there’s a Creator who designed it, so they invented a false theory, a big lie of Darwin that it happened by itself gradually.

Now how could it happen? So they said, “It took millions and billions of years, and in billions of years, that could have happened.” If in billions of years they believe that life can come from non-life, why don’t they make some today? They’re trying with all their might in all their laboratories, every kind of experiment, they couldn’t even make the beginning of life from non-life anywhere today.

The newspapers come up with nothing but lies, every day new discoveries. Next week they don’t talk about the discoveries anymore. They’re ashamed to mention it was found to be a lie.

For instance, the horses in Yale, there was a horse exhibit how the horse developed from a little cat and became a big horse. It’s not there anymore. For so many years it was the backbone of science, the horse exhibit. It’s proven from there. Today they said it’s wrong. It’s a mistake and they removed it.

Up till recently, all the textbooks said that the development of the embryo is a recapitulation of the process of evolution. It starts from one cell and it becomes a multi-celled organism. Today all the scientists say that the embryo does not recapitulate the stages of evolution. And today it’s entirely cancelled out. Of course in the schoolbooks that they’re teaching the dumb high school boys and girls, they tell them the same lies over again, but the scientists all say it’s wrong, that the embryo doesn’t prove anything at all.

There was a time when all the museums had a bust of the Piltdown man. They had a far receding forehead like a monkey, big jaw, he walked with a stone hammer in his hand bent over. And finally after fifty years that this bust had been in all the museums of the world, today it’s not there anymore. They discovered the whole thing was a fake. Somebody had faked it up and painted the teeth to look old and the whole thing never existed.

Now one by one all the discoveries are found to be fakes. You can be sure that the claim of life on Mars will turn out to be nothing at all. I am certain. It doesn’t make any difference to us because there could be life on Mars according to the Torah. The Torah didn’t say anything about that. The Torah just said adam was in this world.

So we have to know that the world is made for the purpose of deception. It’s a test for us. And we have to fight back against the lies of the scientists.

The colleges, by the way today have become the worst places in America. There’s no place more degraded, more wicked than the colleges. Once upon a time, we thought in the dens of the underworld, that’s where you find crime and wickedness and immorality. Today the colleges are the place. And the colleges, I don’t want to say what they teach you in the colleges. It’s terrible to tell you what they say there, what they do there, the courses that they give and they give you credit for studying the worst and filthiest things and the most wicked kind of behavior. I’d like to talk about it because I know the whole subject, but in public it’s not polite to speak about these things. Today the colleges are the worst places in the nation today. America is suffering from the colleges.

And therefore, boruch Hashem that our youth has taken to going to the yeshivas, and they learn a Toras emes, ברוך שהבדלנו מן הטועים – they separated us from those who are going astray after all false things and boruch Hashem the Jewish people are increasing and multiplying. The frumme are becoming more and more, whereas the others are not having any families, and eventually they’ll all go lost. They’ll all go lost.

(Toras Avigdor – June 1996)