An aside--this understanding should be absorbed by anyone who needs to defend scripture against scoffers and the not-yet-informed. However it's impossible to hold a darwinian's attention (particularly the youth) long enough to understand and debate.
Feedback welcome!
http://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/664329/jewish/On-Science-and-Its-Truths.htm
He must use a different definition than the normal ones for "science" and "objective" then.
I think the most telling remark is the statement that the scientific assumption that light is limited to electromagnetic forces or waves, etc Is dubious. The question isn’t so much whether science can win when playing by it’s own rules, but rather whether the rules are justifiable.
From the Article:
“In other words, science cannot, a priori, challenge religion, especially our religion, for science can never speak in terms of absolute truth.”
This is incorrect. Science *CAN* speak in absolute terms, particularly mathematics.
For example I can say, with absolute confidence, that 2 is the ONLY even prime number.
To prove this, all that are needed are the definitions of ‘Prime’ and ‘Even’.
An even number is an integer which is evenly divisible (that is, leaving no remainder) by 2.
{x is even if 2k = x for some integer k}
A Prime number is an integer, excluding 1, which only evenly dividable by itself and one.
2 is the even number resultant from setting k to 1; that is, 2(1) = x.
This satisfies the definition for prime, further, any even number would have to have its k set to something other than 1 which means that it is evenly divisible by k. Therefore, the only even number satisfying the requirements for being prime is 2.
The biggest group of people who refuse to buy into evoloserism is probably mathematicians, and not Christians or Jews. Evolution is not compatible with modern mathematics and probability theory.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Of Blessed Memory, was the closest thing to being a Moshiach that I have ever encountered. I attended every shabbos at a Chabad House. If not for the Rebbe there would only be a dead non-Torah-observant Reformed synagogue to attend in my town, which I would not.
Thank you for posting this.
Btw.......do we have a Levi in the House?