[Avodah] Do gentiles have more teeth than Jews? Do they have less?

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 03:36:13PM -0500, Prof. Levine wrote:
: But many things in halacha depend upon a knowledge of science and 
: mathematics...

However, you don't have proof that this knowledge is more fundamental to
halakhah than claims from Chazal about how the world ought to be. What
the tooth thing would show is that regardless of how the world /is/, the
fact that Chazal feel that 33 teeth better describes how the world
should be is more relevent to how we should act.

The rest of your post is simple Torah-and vs Torah-only, and by now we all
(but the newcomers) know both sides' arguments quite well.

-Micha

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