re: #8 Great White Snark

Interestingly, the writer at Chabad tries to define for science what poof is. OTOH I never see scientists looking to define ideas found in religion. Hmmm.

I am a member of Chabad, and that polemic is simply not correct.

Orthodox Jews did not have any problems accepting evolution, or accepting the fact that the earth is millions of years old. The Jewish “calendar year” is not even mentioned anywhere in Scripture and was in fact calculated during the rabbinical period. The Zohar speaks of “millions of years of creation”

In the 1970’s a rabbi published some anti-evolution books (which turned out to be all based on materials that were put out by Christian evangelicals) that gained popularity among scientific illiterates.