Darwin Is Not The Enemy

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: March 24, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

David Klinghoffer wonders why the Jewish community hasn't joined the struggle against Darwin ("Darwin's Jews," Feb. 24). He asserts high theological stakes: If it cannot be proven that the origin of life is a scientific impossibility, then Judaism cannot be believed.

Klinghoffer seems unaware that an Orthodox Jewish response to Darwin was offered a century ago by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook.

Rav Kook, who was to become the chief rabbi of prestate Palestine, saw no need to disprove evolution. Indeed, he saw Darwin's theory as pointing to "the unfolding of the spiritual dimension of existence, ...

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