Jewish Creationism

[Eilonnwy]

I received an email from my friend asking me if I can refute a Jewish argument for creation in reference to a specific lecture. She asked this because she's now working with someone who is Jewish and thinks evolution is made up and says the theory from the lecture below threatens the theory of evolution. (My friend is an atheist, but she doesn't seek out discussions and arguments the way I do, so she's not used to the typical creationist arguments) I can pretty much probably take my Christian arguments and use them both ways, but she posted a link asking if I can refute that specifically.

I hope to listen to it when I have time, but I thought I'd post about here and ask your thoughts if you feel you have time to give it a listen. The lecture speaker is a bit bland, I listened to a little bit of it. So it might be difficult to listen to, but I know some of you like to listen to various arguments to try to refute it, and we rarely talk about Creationism from a Jewish angle, so have at it!

http://www.inner.org/torah_and_science/e.../index.php

[solidsquid]

It sounds like this guy is recording this in his garage while moving boxes...

It seems the strange logic this guy is using is:

Jewish Mysticism (Kabalah) jives with modern science
Intelligent Design is modern science
Intelligent Design trumps evolution because it jives with Jewish Mysticism
Therefore evolution is crap and Jewish Mysticism pwns and god exists

That's what I get out of 20 painful minutes of just the first "lecture".

[KichigaiNeko]

Where did you think the xtians got their creationism from??

[solja247]

I received an email from my friend asking me if I can refute a Jewish argument for creation in reference to a specific lecture. She asked this because she's now working with someone who is Jewish and thinks evolution is made up and says the theory from the lecture below threatens the theory of evolution. (My friend is an atheist, but she doesn't seek out discussions and arguments the way I do, so she's not used to the typical creationist arguments) I can pretty much probably take my Christian arguments and use them both ways, but she posted a link asking if I can refute that specifically.

I hope to listen to it when I have time, but I thought I'd post about here and ask your thoughts if you feel you have time to give it a listen. The lecture speaker is a bit bland, I listened to a little bit of it. So it might be difficult to listen to, but I know some of you like to listen to various arguments to try to refute it, and we rarely talk about Creationism from a Jewish angle, so have at it!

Simple http://biologos.org/resources/nt-wright-...m-and-eve/

NT wright is a leading scholar.