Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 16:57:37 -0500
From: Justin Marcus <mcguij2-AT-rpi.edu>
Subject: RE: Darwin and Fascism



>    Speaking of which, I recall hearing from a fellow intellectual not too long
> ago that most Jews (whose bible is the old testament from christianity) don't
> take the idea of spontaneous creation (or most of the rest of the book of
> genesis) as seriously as most christians do. I have no first hand knowledge
> about this, so I can't really say anything to back it up, but its interesting
> anyway. (Ack, my own verbosity is confusing me!)
> Chris

Depends on which branch (sect? part? frat?) of jews you're looking at. 
Also individualy some jews are a lot more accepting of science than
others.  My aunt lived in a kibutze for a few years, they seemed to
accept evolution pretty much, although many still believed that the
world will end at the year 6000, a 1000 years for each day of god's
work.  You may think that's along way off, but the jewish calendar puts
us at around 5760 (estimate).


and now for something completely different:
> -Jenn
> "If when jesus was born the first coming, when he rose the 2nd time was the
> 2nd coming, then shouldn't we be waiting for the 3rd coming of him....not the
> 2nd?"
I heard someone use the lucas theory to explain this, the first one was
the second, the second the first, and the third will be the only right
one.
A bit of bad humor I thought I'd pass on.


-justin