[Avodah] R' Keller's JO article on evolution
Zev Sero
zev at sero.name
Sun Oct 1 12:32:52 PDT 2006
Jonathan Baker wrote:
> R' Alan Brill notes that until the mid-19th century, nobody took the
> Creation narrative literally. On his first tape from the Revelation
> course he gave at YU last year (available on www.yutorah.org), he gives
> a catalogue of rishonim & acharonim and how they each viewed the Creation
> narrative as a metaphor: for spiritual realm, for morality, etc.
On the contrary, until the mid-19th century nobody questioned the
literal meaning of the narrative. They looked for deeper meanings,
beyond the obvious, but not for a moment did they accept or even
consider that the physical events didn't happen exactly as described.
You yourself acknowledge a few paragraphs later that the Ramban and
Kuzari took it literally; do you really think they were unique in
this?
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Zev Sero Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's
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- Clarence Thomas
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