ZeevMichael,

What fire?!?

The conversation started out that we weren't going to discuss matters over our heads and it continued that way.

If you're a religious Jew seeking anti-missionary information on some "contradiction" used "against us" than say so.

There was no such intimation in the original question nor in yours.

This is the Ask-the-Rabbi thread. Not the anti-missionary education thread. I answer the questions as they appear in the posts. Sometimes I don't answer a question... as it appears in the post.

Since you brought it up, though, if a missionary does say the Midrash contradicts the Torah, show him this thread and he'll see that it doesn't.



Sophie,

The Adam in Gen. 1 is absolutely the Adam in Gen 2.
Gen. 1 is a general overview and Gen. 2 is more detailed. However much time did or didn't pass between the two stages described in the commentaries does not change the fact that it is about the same Adam.

Also, while it's true that elements of evolution are not in conflict with Torah thought, to say that after G-d created matter, things then went the way the scientists say is giving them WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY to much credit.

After G-d created *something* He created/shaped everything in it's detail on their respective days.

Science may or may not have tapped into how parts of that process were manifest.

For example, evolutionists say fish evolved into fowl. That does coincide with the text which says G-d created the fish before creating the fowl. Evolutionists will also say monkey evolved into man. That's not true.

Certainly worth mentioning is also the fact that not all scientists see credibility in evolution. Statements portraying it to be a given are misleading.

For example...