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<br><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial">in general, whenever Chazal
make a scientific statement, they are not talking about the observable
universe but rather the "real" universe. What we - and the scientists
- see is only a </font><a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface><font size=2 color=#0062e1 face="Arial"><u>graphic
user interface</u></font></a><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial">, so
to speak. The real world - the real sun, real moon, real earth - is not
observable by current scientific means. Chazal were talking about the real
world when they spoke. I'd recommend </font><a href="http://www.baismedrash.com/wp-content/uploads/Torah%20and%20Science%20(Part%203)%20-%20Night%20Vision.mp3"><font size=2 color=#0062e1 face="Arial"><u>this
Shiur</u></font></a><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial"> [
link available there] for a full treatment.</font><font size=3><br>
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Therefore, the Jewish sages were talking about the "real" universe,
which indeed behaves exactly as the Chachmei Yisroel described. The non-Jewish
scholars were arguing with limited information, i.e. with what their scientists
could see on the "outside," GUI world. We agree that on the outside,
it would appear the way they say. But the Chachmei Yisroel saw deeper,
they saw into the real world and there, their description is correct. </font><font size=3>
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</font><font size=1 face="Arial">----- it would seem to me that
if eg chazal say 2+2= 5 , and
our reality sees the metzius as 2+2=4 , it still equals 5
. this implies chazalic observations are ALWAYS
correct , it may on a more metaphysical or medrashic plane
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<br><font size=1 face="Arial">my question is in general the thinking
about the now banned approaches to chazals that
don't fit. is it that believing 2+2=4 is
inherently assur ; or is it a slippery slope, that
2+2 =4 would lead to mixed dancing as the old joke goes?<br>
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