This is what I posted on his board.

The Rambam said:

“The Torah can not be false. What has been proven to be true can not be false by definition. Therefore if your understanding of Torah is contradicted by what has been proven to be true, the only thing that can be wrong is your understanding of Torah.”

In other words, if your reading of Torah (Genesis being the first book of it) makes you think that evolution didn’t happen, then you are reading it wrong.

Rambam’s entire point and thrust was to bridge perceived gaps between Torah and the science of his day. You clearly have never read him.

Your assertion that we Jews who choose not to live in the dark ages are somehow poor misguided souls who were tempted away from the Tradition by assimilation is terribly insulting.

Further, if you are a practicing Jew, then you should know a few things about what the Tradition says. For one, we assert that Hashem knows the future. Therefore, since a random event is something that can not be predicted, by definition, nothing is ever random to Hashem.

Did you miss that bit?

Further, since when is Parsha Bereshit something that is only to be read at the pshat level? Do you perhaps deny all of the Talmudic commentary that comes to explain this or that meaning beyond the pshat? If indeed we do not hold to just the pshat, is there not room for looking more deeply into the verses and not being so literalist as to deny scientific facts?

What do you make of the Arizal’s calculation of the age of the universe which set it at 14 billion years? Do we Jews not have Cabalah as well?

You are not a spokesperson for the Tradition. You simply do not understand it well enough to comment.