[Avodah] The Cult of Pe'or and Darwinism

[Yitzchak Schaffer]

On 6/27/2010 11:16, Yitzchok Levine wrote:
> The following is from RSRH's commentary on Bamidbar 25:
>
> /*The cult of Pe’or is an illustration of the type of Darwinism that glories
> in man’s descent to the level of the beast, where, stripping himself of
> his Divinely-given nobility, he comes to regard himself as merely a higher
> species of animal.
>

... which is why we need a different type of Darwinism, that which does 
not limit its world to the material, and sees man as a higher species of 
animal *plus* a Divine soul.

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