The Rational Bible: Genesis
The Rational Bible: Exodus
(both by Dennis Prager)
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I think math and science clash here. Math would prove that Darwin does not explain evolution. The survival of the fittest is true. But the speed of DNA change cannot explain evolution. Change is too slow and random for it to explain the speedy change in species.
Genesis could have happened. Just not here on earth.
A treatment of the topic by Rabbi Akiva Tatz, a popular traditional Jewish teacher:
https://torahdownloads.com/player.html?ShiurID=1017709
I have so many questions about “evolution”.
No, I am not a “creationist”, per se. I think I’m more along the ID path.
God COULD create things in 6 seconds, but I think the Genesis is mostly an allegory. (God would know that a “day” is relative to the Earth, and there are just so many other planets with different “days”.)
Not sure why, but I think He had a big hand in setting things in motion but sometimes tinkering.
Please explain how species gain another or lose another chromosome to become a different species. Such is not what basic biology taught us. And I think that may lie in the discussion of probability also - defectives occuring, AND being “superior” that they could mate and ultimately dominate those with “correct” chromosomes, etc.
Many, many questions.
“Christianity remains at the core of contemporary Western thinking even among those who disdain it”
PRECISELY.
Ask Antifa fools and so many libs why they think “everyone is equal” and “should be treated with respect” - and ask them if those diverse people they love (and actually think are superior, not equal) in Indonesia or India or Congo or Iraq think so.
“But secularism holds that the rule of reason divorced from biblical religion would banish bad things like prejudice or war from the world and the human heart.”
LOL yes, anytime some atheist claims they are better because “religion” has resulted in so much murder and mayhem, just answer them “ah yes, because atheistic communists have never murdered anyone for their cause”.
Precisely. Look to Islam, Confucianism, Paganism, or Hinduism, if you wish to see religion that restricted science.
What most people do not realize is that Albert Einstein, arguably the greatest scientific mind in human history, actually makes the strongest case for the existence of God through his Theory of Relativity. The fact that space, time and matter must coexist because without any one of the three, the other two cannot exist, actually forms the basis for the premise that a force that is spaceless, timeless and immaterial must have pre-existed the creation (uh oh, there’s that word!) of space, time and matter. Given that all three must coexist, they must all have come into existence at the same instant. Hence, we now have the Big Bang. It just so happens that the spaceless, timeless and immaterial force that lit the fuse happens to be a spaceless, timeless and immaterial being, namely God. There is no other
rational explanation. So God haters, deal with it!
Last night, I reviewed many articles about Gelernter. I couldn’t find one that included his arguments against evolution. They just mentioned his opposition.
I see evolution as God making tweaks to his project.
“There are plenty of other unsayables in our thought-policed society. Human-made global warming, for example, is considered beyond challenge because the science of that theory is said to be “settled.” This is in fact anti-science dogma because nothing is ever settled in science, which is always open to fresh challenges.”
“The opposition between religion and science that is assumed to be fundamental by secular liberals is in fact foreign to Judaism. With so much of the Hebrew Bible interpreted over the centuries as allegory or metaphor, Judaism has never seen science as a threat.
The 12th-century Jewish sage Maimonides was the great exemplar of the belief that science and religion were complementary. He wrote that conflict between science and the Bible arose from either a lack of scientific knowledge or a defective understanding of the Bible.”
What most people miss with Darwinism is that it was never stated properly. Yes, there is survival of the fittest - but that is on the micro-evolutionary level. So, in a drought, the taller giraffes have more food to eat and they survive to pass on their genes, whereas the shorter giraffes don’t. This process repeats itself over time, resulting in very tall giraffes (and, yes, there are physical limits as to how tall they can get).
OTOH, Darwinism simply CANNOT explain how we went from inorganic matter to organic matter (Schroeder says that this is the single biggest leap of all - and that it simply could NOT have happened in multiple times the duration of the planet’s existence), nor how single-celled organisms somehow “evolved” into giraffes (or any other animal). That is the macro-evolutionary level, on which Darwinism utterly fails to explain anything - and it is the level that unfailingly (for those with open minds) points to a purposeful design.
With all the paper printed on this subject, there is only one use for it.... no, not fishwrap!!
The only problem with any of the various theories of evolution is that real science doesn’t support any of them beyond the basics of survival of the fittest. It is a silly piece of sophomoric thinking that fails to provide any solid evidence for its claims.