5-11 Aug

Q: Does the adaptation of a species to the environment disprove Creation?

ABSTRACT

It is a popular misconception that Torah and science present two competing and mutually exclusive accounts of the Creation story. If Jews of opposite outlooks would overcome their prejudices against such terms as "G-d" and "natural selection" and would carefully delineate the content and context of each scenario, they would see that the two sources provide compatible-even complementary-descriptions of the origin and unfolding of life.

A: What is this "environment" if not the original Will/Pattern/Geometry as it is projected into the relative realms of name and form, time and space? It is a living symbol, expressing in minute and perfect detail the vision that underlies and directs Creation.

So, when a species adapts to its environment, it is actually adapting to the Divine Will/Primordial Geometry which is manifest as that environment.

At this point, the mathematical arguments against Darwinian theory based on the unwieldy time factor necessary for a purely random process of genetic mutation and recombination to yield the existing variety of life forms can be eliminated. We are no longer working with a "random system," but rather with one profoundly constrained by the underlying patterns of the universe.

BIO
Susan Schneider is the writer and director of A Still Small Voice, a correspondence school that provides weekly teachings in classic Jewish wisdom to subscribers around the world. She also teaches individuals or small groups wanting to work with text in depth.

Holding a BA in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology from the University of Colorado, Susan Schneider has also studied in the advanced program of Neve Yerushalayim. Working as a biologist, she pioneered an on-site respiratory program at Celestial Seasonings herb tea company in Colorado.

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