[Avodah] Avodah] Hashgacha Pratis for goyim

[Michael Makovi]

Re: Torah and science

I've taken to joking that Rabbi Slifkin could have taken a translation
of the Moreh, added an appendix with statements of Rabbis Hirsch and
Kook on science, and called it a day. The route he rather took (i.e.
his book The Challenge of Creation) is merely more comprehensible for
the masses. But for a person willing to expend massive amounts of
contemplation, the Moreh's method of reconciling Torah and science is
quite usable even today. (Rabbi Isidore Epstein in The Faith of
Judaism indeed explicitly says his solution to evolution is exactly
the same as Rambam's treatment of Aristotle's eternity of the universe
and Plato's preexistent unformed matter.)

Michael Makovi