I am posting this to the list for the author, at his request.
Bill
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From: billwald@juno.com
To: bpayne15@juno.com
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 09:48:53 -0800
Subject: Re: Jewish View Of Creationism
Message-ID: <20000401.094854.-336291.1.billwald@juno.com>
>As a Jew who is attempting to work
>with non-believers, scientists, and hard-nosed skeptics, I find it both
>offensive and debilitating to have to explain that the Torah does not
>suggest such obvious misteachings as literalism and its stepchild,
>creationism.
>You might ask your Jewish correspondent why the Jewish calendar reckons
>this year as the year 5600.
Many Orthodox Jews believe in a 7 day creation. What kind of a Jew is
this person?
Jews get the 5600 the same way Bishop Usscher got the 4004 BC, by
counting Biblical generations to back-date creation.
Apparently I don't understand how this list works. "Reply" doesn't get
one back to the list server?
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