[Avodah] evolution - new creatures coming into existence 7 days of creation

[Zvi Lampel]

On 12/19/2011 7:52 PM, Micha Berger wrote:

>This notion that everything happened on day 6 is subject to a machloqes,
and R Yochanan ben Chanina's (Sanhedrin 38b) isn't the only shitah.<



*Tsorech Iyun. The Rambam does take it as the opinion of ALL the 
Chachamim. Perhaps he understands RYbC's shitta to be the final consensus:*

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*"(MN 2:30) The Torah spoke of the Tree of Life and the Tree of 
Knowledge, the thing of the Snake and that matter, and it said that this 
in its entirety was after Adam was placed in Gan Eden, and *all the 
Chachamim agree* that this matter in its entirety was the sixth day, and 
that no matter changed in any way after the six days of Breishis. And 
for this [reason] nothing of those matters is far-fetched, as we have 
said, for until now, Nature was not stabilized."*

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*At any rate, if the Midrash about the first appearance of flying 
insects does exist, to conform it with the principle that nothing new 
was created after day six, we can say the Midrash is following that 
opinion.*

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*Another approach may be that the Midrash holds the eventual appearance 
of these insects was consistent with the final laws of nature 
established before the first Shabbos.*

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*But of course, the proper way to approach this is to first find out if 
this is a real Midrash, as the questioner originally asked. *

  

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