re: #171 Obdicut

I sometimes question whether or not your religious views negatively affect your take on science, but you always prove me wrong with posts like this.

Thank you.

My religious view is that if G-d reveald the Torah through prohecy to Moses, he needed to reveal something that could be understood by Moses - who was after all someone who lived in the ancient world. The point of Torah is not to teach people Quantum Physics. It is to teach people how to live their lives. The word Torah literally means instruction. It is instructions for life.

If you are sanguine about that it becomes easy to move past the contradictions between science and Torah. If you want to communicate the great truth that we really do have responsibility to each other and in this case the planet we live on - lest we perish - to Moses and then everyone else who reads the book then the story of the flood makes a huge amount of sense.