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Tzvi Ben Roshel1:
A SHORT WORD ON THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION [NATURAL SELECTION] FROM DARWIN’S OWN WRITINGS
“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light and for the correction of spherical and chromatic observation could have been formed by natural selection seems, I confess absurd in the highest degree.”
Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species Ch. 6
FROM MONKEYS TO MEN OR FROM MEN TO MONKEYS?
SO DO WE COME FROM THE MONKEYS OR MAYBE IT’S THE OTHER WAY AROUND. THIS IS WHAT’S WRITTEN IN THE TALMUD AND MIDRASH [SANHEDRIN 108, BERESHIT RABBA 38] (MORE THAN 1,500 YEARS AGO) CONCERNING THE PUNISHMENT THAT G-D GAVE TO SOME OF THOSE WHO BUILT THE TOWER OF BABEL:
“THE GROUP OF BUILDERS OF THE TOWER OF BABEL WHO SAID: “LET’S MAKE A TOWER TO WAGE WAR AGAINST G-D” THAT GROUP WAS TRANSFORMED INTO MONKEYS, SPIRITS AND DEMONS”
IT’S NO COINCIDENCE THAT THOSE WHO TRY TO WAGE WAR AGAINST G-D BY DENYING THAT HE CREATED THE WORLD, THOSE SAME PEOPLE CLAIM THEY COME FROM THE MONKEYS. WELL, IT MAY BE INDEED TRUE.

Dr. Dan:
Does it matter if the universe was created by Gd via evolution or spontaneously in 7 days?  Either way is a miracle...


besides, everyone knows that humans were derived by from a bunch of retarded fish-frogs who had buttsex with a squirrel-monkey.

Tzvi Ben Roshel1:
Can this be moved to the Torah section?

Rubystars:
Anti-evolutionists always quote the first part about the eye, and then go on to cut out the entire rest of that quotation, where Darwin goes on to explain how, even if it seems improbable, the eye did, indeed evolve.

"Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may be rendered sensitive to light, and likewise to those coarser vibrations of the air which produce sound." (Darwin 1872, 143-144)

Wayne Jude:
Danny, you are wrong...We came from fish ,became monkeys and one day will evolve into a carrot like veggy.But we will kill our children{seeds}in the womb,and believe we came about because of a big bang.Dam Me hungry ,so nite...

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