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Jack Haas

Jews clash over the intelligence of intelligent design
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On a recent Tuesday evening, Moshe Tendler, an influential Orthodox
rabbi and Yeshiva University biology professor, ambled onto the stage at
Kovens Conference Center in North Miami. A stately figure with a wispy
white beard and heavy glasses, he surveyed the 300-strong crowd of
scientists and intellectuals — most clad in yarmulkes and dark suits
with tallith tassels dangling about their waists — and urged them to
spread the word that Darwin was wrong. "It is our task to inform the
world about intelligent design]," he implored. "Or the child growing up
will grow up with unintelligent design.... Unintelligent design is our
ignorance, our stupidity." This may seem an unlikely message from a
prominent Jewish biologist. After all, intelligent design theory — which
holds that life is too complex to be a fluke of evolution — has been
crafted primarily by evangelical Christians and spurned by most
scientists. [See full article]
By Mariah Blake, /MiamiNewTimes/
Received on Fri Dec 30 16:37:18 2005