[Avodah] local flood

[Eli Turkel]

<<*3. The Kuzari who dismisses the Indian belief, that they had
antiquities and buildings millions of years old, as contra our tradition
(rather than reconciling the evidence by interpreting the sixth day as
an era of Adam/"mankind"*>>

IMHO the point is that RIHAL says why throw out our traditions because of some
Indian beliefs.

It is an entirely different story if RIHAL were convinced that science
in many different fields
held the earth/universe was billions of years old
eg the distance to starts is measured in millions of light years.

As far as I am concerned this whole discussion is meaningless.
The rishonim had no real reason to scientifically doubt the story of creation
and the flood as given in the Bible. How they would have reacted to
other science than what they knew is open to conjecture.
We have already mentioned the Rambam that if he was convinced that the world
was eternal he would have accepted that. Only because a finite time
earth was conceivable
was he willing to not accept Aristotle.

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Eli Turkel