Good luck on your Rabbinic civil authority project -- you might have better luck herding Viking cats.
I'm sorry you're so ignorant of your religion that you think that higher criticism is Jewish. Perhaps you should think of attending an 'Aish HaTorah Discovery seminar?
Regarding your tagline: G-D created Eve, even before He removed her from Adam's body.
"Perhaps you should think of attending an 'Aish HaTorah Discovery seminar"?
Oh man. First Alouette tells me that I need to go to shul more than once a year and now you want me to go to a seminar? You guys sound like my sister.
Anyway, it's time to stop the unofficial slacking and get with the officially sanctioned slacking. Gut shabbos, Noah follower.
I'm sure some of the objections come from adherents to PETAology, an offshoot of some Tikun Olum practitioners. I shame I can't hang around for the rest of the thread.