Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Genetics and Apparent Age

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I'm terribly sorry for the drought of posts and thank all who have continued stopping by. Previously we have shown that the default in ...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Sinning Bare-Headed

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Igros Moshe O.C. 2:95 “And on the matter of entering a theater or movies, behold, it is something forbidden, and how is it relevant to permi...
Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Kol Koreh against Gezel Sheina

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HaMercaz has a notice by the Rabbanim of Kiriyat Sanz requesting that it's residents not to work on constructing their Succos after 10 ...
Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Rav Chaim Berlin zt'l on Chassidim

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The Seforim Blog has a very interesting, and I believe important, psak of Rav Chaim Berlin zt'l, which apparently has been left out of ...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

Parshas Vayeira: The Expulsion of Hagar

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I apologize for allowing Shabbos to pass without having posted on the parsha. Truthfully the only thing I could think of was a counter-missi...

Chayei Sarah: The Eliezer Doublet

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The bulk of Parshas Chayei Sarah is the well known account of Avrohom sending his servant, whom we are told is Eliezer (see Genesis 15:2), t...

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R. Gil Student has followed up his post Seven Unconvincing Arguments for the Documentary Hypothesis with the veryinteresting Lot and the Fl...
Friday, November 14, 2008

Natural Selection is Apikorses. Period. (כנ"ל anyways)

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In light of my earlier discussion on Creation Yesh m’Ayin inevitably leading to the appearance of age (and perhaps best thought of as actua...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

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Image of planet outside our solar system.
Thursday, November 6, 2008

Parshas Lech Lecha: The Master of the Mansion

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Our tradition begins with Avrohom Avinu. He is the physical, but even more so the spiritual, father of the Jewish people. The narrative of ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Here Gosse Nothing...

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One particularly obnoxious objection against resolving the age of the universe is the attempt to "pasul" it as a Christian idea si...

Parshas Noach: Evidence for a Global Flood?

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When I was younger, much much younger, I had a plan. I and a couple of my friends where going to be missionaries. Well not just missionaries...
Friday, October 24, 2008

Because to dan l'kaf chov is a lack of "Derech Eretz"

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This is adapted from a comment made on the post at the Divrei Chaim Blog hachanos for mitzvos - how NOT to buy an esrog or build a sukkah ....
Sunday, October 19, 2008

Parshas B’reishis: In the Beginning, Brias HaOlam according to the Torah and the contemporary scientific understanding

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The most obvious challenge, though perhaps not the most difficult one, which modern science presents to Torah Judaism is the radically diver...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008

"Guiding" Principles: The Guide for the Perplexed and today's Age of the Universe question

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While I have done more than a bit of touring the J-Blogosphere, those which I visit quickly became basically canonized and remains very simi...