Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 22:22:08 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net> Cc: nwestfal@directvinternet.com, dave@jetcafe.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <3D76EA00.CE74BED1@mindspring.com> References: <20020904021149.10d2e0f4.yid@softhome.net> <20020904120659.L88455-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> <20020904234425.669b500a.yid@softhome.net> <3D76E44E.16950DD@mindspring.com> <20020905011425.7f22ac7d.yid@softhome.net>
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Joshua Lee wrote: > "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. :-) ) "Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings, admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science." -- Albert Einstein -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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