MANNOWAR
nathan_ngl
Akhilles
A Hebro, a religious Hebro told me that "When G-d Created the earth, he created it as if it was around for millions of year" Think about it.
Yes, I've heard of that, and it makes sense. Not only that, but scientists used extrapolation to calculate the years earth has been around by the level of carbon (I think) in earth's matterials. Since when using extrapolation you can be WAY off (Imagine extrapolating child growth - ages 1-5 are WAY different than ages 30-40. You would eventually get a child that is 10 meters high eek ).
yea but just mebe science and Religion werent meant to be together
I think they were, I've posted this elsewhere on the guild, and I'll post it again:
The Rasag - Researching the belief:
The Rasag, or "Rabbi saadia Ha'gaon", was born in diltch (eygpt) in 882. He was a great rabbi, and was very well learned in the sciences of his time. He was also very good with scripture and the hebrew language.
The Rasag lead the opinion that if someone wants to reach true belief, he should research it, but first he has to come to an understanding that everything in the torah is true, word for word. In other words, before you start questioning the religion, you first must accept with blind belief that it is all true. Afterwards, you may research it, find out the reasoning and meanings behind it, but you have to have a good strong base of blind belief, lest you come to the wrong conclusions, and turn against the truth. Research brings to the complete belief, the true belief, and a better understanding of G-d's world.
So you see, research and science is actually a prefered thing.
Not only that, but many rabbi's, such as the rambam were great scientists and were very knoledgable of the sciences in their time.
