Torah Min HaShamayim: Conflicts between Religious Belief and Scientific Thinking
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چکیده
Just over sixty years ago, the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists was founded to resolve ‘the apparent points of conflict between scientific theory and Orthodox Judaism’ [1]. The claims of paleontology, cosmology, and especially evolutionary biology exposed contradictions with traditional beliefs that were hard to overcome – so hard, indeed, that Alvin Radkowsky (an eminent nuclear physicist and leading member of the association) described the challenge as a ‘test of faith comparable to that faced by the biblical Abraham’ [2].
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