Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 01:14:25 -0400 From: Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: nwestfal@directvinternet.com, dave@jetcafe.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <20020905011425.7f22ac7d.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <3D76E44E.16950DD@mindspring.com> References: <20020904021149.10d2e0f4.yid@softhome.net> <20020904120659.L88455-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> <20020904234425.669b500a.yid@softhome.net> <3D76E44E.16950DD@mindspring.com>
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On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 21:57:50 -0700 Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote: > Joshua Lee wrote: > > somewhat earlier, Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook seemed to > > incorporate evolution and other "heretical" ideas into his unique > > theological reconcilliation of modern thought and Orthodoxy. Again, > > as an Orthodox Jew, I'm not an"evolutionist", but I think it's > > somewhat dishonest to label a scientific theory as a religion. > > Heh. That's because: > > "Anything that contradicts doctorine must be someone > else's doctoring, rather than the truth". "Truth" is not the realm of science, science is the art of describing repeated empherical observations with rational mathematics. :-) As such it is as theological as the computer program I am using to compose this message; though indeed some, mostly laymen, do try to make it into a pseudo-religion. (Compte being a case in point.) I don't see science and mathematics as contradictory; several prominant Rabbis have a degree in biology and are even biology professors, for example; because knowledge of biology is indispensable for an important volume of the Talmud and it's corresponding sections of the codes and rulings that are part of getting smicha. (The sections dealing with Kashrus.) The Torah commentator Rashi said on the verse "it is your wisdom and understanding before the nations" that this refers to astronomy and the observations used to calculate the calendar. It is really no wonder that a disproportionate number of famous scientists are Jewish. (Of course, there are plenty of famous Anglo-Saxon scientists too. :-) ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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