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<font size=3>At 06:16 AM 6/30/2010, Yitzchok Schaffer wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 6/27/2010 11:16, Yitzchok
Levine wrote:<br>
> The following is from RSRH's commentary on Bamidbar 25:<br>
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> /*The cult of Pe?or is an illustration of the type of Darwinism that
glories<br>
> in man?s descent to the level of the beast, where, stripping himself
of<br>
> his Divinely-given nobility, he comes to regard himself as merely a
higher<br>
> species of animal.<br>
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... which is why we need a different type of Darwinism, that which does
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not limit its world to the material, and sees man as a higher species of
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animal *plus* a Divine soul.</font></blockquote><br>
Two questions come to mind.<br><br>
1. Why do we need any type of Darwinism? <br><br>
2. Would this "different type of Darwinism" be science? After
all, science is interested in explaining how things occur, not the
underlying why. The simplest explanation that explains a given
phenomenon is the one that is almost always used. It seems to me that
science has no need for spiritual considerations. <br><br>
YL<br><br>
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