I have been thinking recently about the demand of the creationists to remove the study of evolution from the public schools, or that it be taught simultaneously with the science of creation. This is because "evolution is only a theory" and "no one was there to witness the creation" therefore we cannot say for sure what really happened
I have been thinking recently about the demand of the creationists to remove the study of evolution from public schools, or to require it to be taught along with the science of creationism. This is because "evolution is only a theory" and "no one was there to witness the creation" therefore we cannot say for sure what really happened.
I came to the conclusion that what's fair is fair and that the creationists demand a fair demand. After all, isn't education hearing both sides of an issue? And they are right, no one was there to witness the creation, so any ideas about who or what caused the creation can only be theoretical theories and therefore never proven.
Therefore, I am convinced that rabbis, pastors, and religious leaders of every sect would be happy to read the following disclaimer to each and every one of their communities every Friday/Saturday/Sunday morning, or before every sermon:
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen. God bless you and promote you to (fill in the name of the church, the mosque, the synagogue or any other place where you do religious service). Today we are going to talk about the creation of the universe and life on Earth. According to the Bible, Genesis XNUMX verses XNUMX-XNUMX: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was chaos and chaos and darkness on the surface of the abyss, and the Spirit of God hovered over the surface of the water, and God said let there be light, and there was light.
"But now, it is important for us to understand that none of us was present at creation and therefore we do not really know what happened. Genesis XNUMX verses XNUMX-XNUMX are only a theory and therefore cannot be treated as fact. And it would only be fair that I share with you the fact of the existence of other theories. The Sumerians, the Gilbertese, the Babylonians, the Koreans, and the Greeks believed that the world was formed from the parts of a slain monster; Some Indians from the Zuni tribe, from the Cook Islands and Tahitian put forward a theory according to which the world was created from the sexual relations of the Yulian parents. And some Japanese, Samoans, Persians, Chinese and Hindus put forward the theory that the world was created from an egg. And of course there is a theory that the liberal media and the intelligentsia elite are trying to impose on us, the theory of evolution.
As for the origin of man, in Genesis chapter XNUMX verse XNUMX it is written: 'And God created man in his image and likeness, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them.' Of course, there was no one there to witness this action, except Adam and Eve after they were created. I must also inform you that this contradicts Genesis chapter XNUMX verse XNUMX: And Jehovah formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the soul of a living man, and man became a living soul. In this theory Adam was alone, without a partner. Until Genesis chapter XNUMX verses XNUMX:XNUMX, where God fell asleep on man, took one of his ribs and closed the flesh and from the rib he created the woman. "And Yahweh God let sleep fall upon the man and he slept, and took one of his ribs and closed the flesh under it. And God built the rib that He took from man into a woman and brought it to man."
(Editor's note: The accepted opinion among scholars today is that the Bible is made up of different stories as some were brought by the tribe of Judah and others were brought by the other tribes of Israel, and were put together. It is a fact that in one of them God is called Jehovah, in two Gods and in the third Jehovah-God. And another note, in places Where there were quotations from the Tanakh, I of course brought them in the Hebrew source and not as a translation of a translation).
"Because everyone here is blessed by God with a mind that thinks, I will let you decide which theory is the correct theory of the creation of man: Genesis chapter XNUMX or Genesis chapter XNUMX. Weigh the evidence and decide for yourself. You are the judges."
"There is another small detail. Adam and Eve gave birth to Cain and Abel, and as you know Cain, as the first-born, wanted to hurt the younger brothers who were trying to deprive him of the parents' resources, so he killed him. This meant that Adam, Eve, and Cain were the only human beings on the entire earth, but later, in Genesis chapter XNUMX, verse XNUMX, we read that "Cain knew his wife" and she was convinced, and thus Enoch was born.
"Now, I don't want to tell you any more about the liberal media's fascination with abominations and pornography. But I think that human beings who rested in wisdom and skeptical thought are hereby blessed by the good God, it is only reasonable to ask who Cain knew. Unless a person himself is blessed with both types of reproductive systems or Cain was capable of self-reproduction, then what we are left with is that Cain knew his mother, but as mentioned this is only a theory, and as we all already know, theories are only wild guesses and should not be taken seriously."
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The whole article from beginning to end is really stupid, that's how it is when you "research the Bible" with tools that are not faithful to the fulfillment of the commandment in your book, that's exactly how it looks, it's all philosophical nonsense and you suggested things completely out of context.
There is no room to refer to all, so I will take only one example
There is no contradiction between the way man and woman were created
The answer, of course, lies in reading comprehension
After all, it was apparently possible to ask without philosophizing the various verses straight from the very verse in Genesis chapter XNUMX XNUMX
"Created him..created them" in that first verse already sounds like "understanding" as if there is a contradiction..
Hence it is not a mistake but an abstract story in fact continuous and complex, meaning that one was created and became two later which is also part of this creation and it is a historical description of the creation of man
In particular, it lays a foundation for the assumption that the woman is not healthy in herself, but first man was created and the woman is a creation that is made of him
Go and learn
When someone writes a book that describes a historical creation process, it seems to you that he will contradict himself in the very beginning.. It's really ridiculous and funny to think like that, because even a beginner writer won't do that.
As mentioned, this is not a contradiction
By the way, the commentators of the case (Rashi, for example) stood by the language in the above verse and interpreted according to a Midrash that at first he was created as two faces and then divided accordingly when the Creator saw that it was not good for man that he alone was composed like this, but instead needed a separate and independent being from him that came from him in this case
As Adam says about Eve in the next verse "This time..bone of myself and flesh of my flesh will call her a woman"
The essence of Israeli democracy: every two or three years we go to elections to decide who will sit with Shas in the coalition.
It doesn't matter who is in power, they don't study evolution so as not to upset the religious.
Whatever the identity of the translator, I do not remember after so many years - then Scientific was not translated in an orderly manner as it is today, I slightly improved the Hebrew. And as for the fairy tales - you probably didn't understand the point. The example of the contradiction between chapter XNUMX and chapter XNUMX in Genesis is only an illustration that the Torah is not a holy book but a book written by human hands, and collected from various sources. Since I do not believe in miracles, it is clear that the whole story - whether the woman was created once (Hava) or several times (Cain's wife, whose name does not appear for some reason), makes no sense. The theory of evolution has a much better explanation that does not require a miracle.
And as for the last part of your response - the problem in Israel is much more serious. You just don't study evolution at all. XNUMXth grade learns out of the blue about the adaptation of animals to their environment for example, without mentioning how this miracle happened. It is possible to graduate from high school, majoring in biology without learning about evolution. In this respect, the situation is much worse in Israel.
Why is there no credit for the translator of the article? I have never come across such a creative translation that brutally rapes the Hebrew language. The Israel Translation Award, without a doubt.
And to the last question: Adam and his wife also had daughters. The fact that they are not mentioned together with the birth of Cain and Abel does not mean that they did not exist, but that it was not important for the biblical narrator to mention them. One of the daughters married her brother Cain, since at that time brother and sister marriages were not yet prohibited. This is, of course, only one possible explanation, and precisely one that seems on the face of it to be quite logical and acceptable. Coincidentally or not, it already appears in the Talmud.
And the contradiction between Genesis XNUMX:XNUMX and Genesis XNUMX:XNUMX; XNUMX, XNUMX-XNUMX is simulated, since this is a clear case of "a general followed by a detail": first the narrator states that Adam and Eve were created, and then he repeats and details at length how they were created and in what order.
I don't understand why this article is so important that someone saw the need to bring a clumsy translation of it here. It's not as if here in Israel someone is demanding that the study of evolution be removed from the curricula of state schools or that creation be presented alongside it as a scientific theory. Such things happen (for now) only in Christian countries, like the USA.