Thursday, December 23, 2004

DEPENDS WHAT YOU MEAN BY MODERN

Silow-Carroll blogs about evolution, writing: Modern Orthodox educators have long understood that the apparent “contradictions” between Torah and science are based on faulty comparisons.

Modern-Orthodox? What about the Tiferes Yisroel, who 200 years ago said that human like creatures lived before Adam? He also wrote that the discovery of dinosuars proved that the universe had existed for millions of years before Adam, and he said this drawing on the Ibn Ezra, the Ramban, and the early kabbalists.

Age of the Universe: Yet another point where Jews and christians disagree.