[Avodah] Local, Non-Global or Global Flood

[Arie Folger]

RMB wrote:
> Yes. So the question is which do I assume was misunderstood,
> the science / philosophy, or the Torah. I'm arguing that if you have
> to change the Torah ONLY because you need to eliminate the
> conflict, then to my mind (or should I say "to my gut instinct?") you
> should instead wait for the science to be ammended.
>
> Or, just wait with the question altogether, seeing as we lack the
> tools to find the single truth.
>
>But not to modify the Torah. How then can you claim Toras Hashem
> temimah,if it's not complete enough to point to correct peshat
> without scientific help?

A different formulation of the problem, which, admittedly, doesn't
fully answer our question, but nonetheless agrees with your assertion
that "just wait with the question altogether, seeing as we lack the
tools to find the single truth," but gives a useful result, is the
following question:

Given we cannot arrive at a definite answer in these matters, and
given that some of us have different gut feelings than others, is it
heresy to posit one kind of reconciliation or another? To that
question, I believe that the negative answer will be true in many more
cases than usually acknowledged.


KT,
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Arie Folger,
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