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The Biblical Science of Creation
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Jewish Exponent
03-11-1999
The Biblical Science of Creation
Naomi Geschwind
Jewish Exponent Correspondent
With his hat, beard and dark suit, Dr. Andrew Goldfinger -- a Chasidic physicist -- seemed to embody the very contradiction resting at the heart of his lecture.
"I believe that what it says in the Bible about creation is literally true," Goldfinger said to a 50-person crowd, right before acknowledging that science and the Bible ap...
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