Torah & Science

Torah and Evolution: Early Genesis as a Metaphor

Overview: The ancient genre of metaphor and the indications that early Genesis was not intended as literal history. This would reconcile the issues of Evolution and Genesis. The approach to...

Exodus on Trial: Were the Israelites Enslaved in Egypt?

Overview: Summary of both the evidence for and against an Israelite Exodus and the responses of each side. The element of embellishment in ancient story-telling and the possible ramifications of...

How Many Israelites Really Left Egypt?

Overview: Challenging the literal interpretation of 600,000 leaving Egypt. Giving scriptural-friendly and archaeological-friendly alternatives to the common notion of the mass exodus from Egypt. What first may appear as...

Genesis on Trial: Were the Patriarchs Real Historical Figures?

Overview: A general outline of the arguments for and against the historical credibility of Patriarchal Genesis, the responses of each side, by comparing it to ancient documents from that time....

The Rabbis: Supermen or Fallible Human Beings?

Overview: There’s a common misconception that turns the rabbis into supermen who can never make a mistake in science or Halacha. This article will bring sources and proofs to demonstrate...

What is the Center of the Universe?

Overview: The debate between Heliocentrism vs. Geocentrism and its relation to the apparent religion vs. science debate. How the idea of relativity invalidates the conflict, and why each side takes...

Do We Have Free Will?

Overview: Free Will vs. Pre-determinism. Is Free Will only an apparent power in the human body or is it a real tool? How do we know it exists? What is...

Did God Create the World Looking Older Than It Actually Is?

Overview: The theory can only explain the complete forms of the world. It does not answer, though, the evidence from the Geological Column and the various dating methods that yield...

Is the World Only 6,000 Years Old? 10 Arguments for Evolution

Overview: 10 basic arguments for evolution and how it works with Torah. Arguments from geology, biology, geography, physics, DNA, and Genesis itself. Following that are 10 arguments that anti-evolutionists make...

Was the Great Flood Only a Local Flood?

The Local Great Flood theory would suggest that the flood in Noah’s days was indeed historical. However it was a localized flood primarily in the Mesopotamian area that completely wiped...

What Did Moses’ Torah Scroll Look Like

Overview: When he wrote, what he wrote, on what he wrote, what script he used, were there in-between word spaces, and more. This discussion comes with the premise that Moses...

Must Torah be Taken Literally?

Genesis begins with two of the most controversial narratives in history. It starts with a 6-day Creation story and has a universal Great Flood more than a thousand years later...

Is Tanakh a Historically Reliable Document?

Overview: The three overall approaches, the issues with the extremes, the middle-path of embellishment, metaphor, myth and legend. The consequences of errancy in Tanakh for Judaism as a whole. From...

Source Theory for the Flood Narrative and the Flood Narrative Source Theory

Overview: A discussion about the constant and obvious repetition and contradictions within the Flood narrative. The two sources theory, the counter arguments from the Epic of Gilgamesh and chiasm, and...

Where did Half the World Go: Table of Nations in Genesis 10

Overview: A study identifying the people-nations in Genesis Ch. 10. The glaring absence of any nations and civilizations beyond the known world of the ancient Near East, including the great...