THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, March 13, 1981 5 -Creation Plus Evolution in the Jewish Tradition (Continued from Page 1) represented as a corporeal being. Nor is it impossible or difficult to find for them a suitable interpretation. We might have explained them in the same manner as we did in respect to the incor- poreality of God and this might have been easier .. . "However, we have not done so ... for the eter- nity of the universe has not been proved and there is no need of scrip- amora R. Samuel of Cap- Grow!' (Gen. R. 10:6). "Important contemporary tural passages to reject it padocia concluded from a "Other scholars maintain embryologists, too, assume ... It we were to accept common feature in fishes that there are metaphysical that in ontogeny — the de- the eternity of the uni- and birds that the latter, factors that guide and direct velopment of the individual verse as taught by Plato, too, were created 'out of al- the existence and develop- during the embryonic we should not be in oppo- luvial mud': this can be pro- ment of. the organism. This period — there is an un- sition to the fundamental ved 'from the fact that birds. theory, known as teleology, (Continued on Page 6) principles of our religion have - one their legs scales approximates to the reli- . . . The scriptural text like those of fishes' (Hul. gious view of the Creator's OFFICIAL AGENCY might have been ex- 27b). providence over His crea- plained accordingly . . . "At the beginning of tures. Some leading con- But there is no necessity the 20th Century the temporary evolutionists, al- for this expedient, so long naturalist De Vries though dissociating them- as the theory has not AUTHORIZED (1848-1935) drew atten- selves from the teleological been proved. As there is SALES k r ,REPAIRS tion to the fact that in approach, nevertheless no proof sufficient to some flora and fauna admit that it is impossible convince us ... we take characteristics suddenly to explain' evolution on the MOSES MAIMONIDES the text of the Bible liter- appear which; though basis only of known forces. asserts: ally." not present in their prog- The existence in prehis- enitors, are transmitted Thus G. L. Stebbins, who Maimonides is quoted by made a study of evolution in Dr. Yehuda Feliks, profes- toric times of gigantic ani- by heredity to the pro- flora, concluded that evolu- sor of botany at Bar-Ilan mals, then extinct, is al- geny. These changes, tion can be explained by Jewelers Ltd. University, Ramat-Gan, Is- luded to in biblical verses known as mutations, for mutations, hybridization, Creative Jewelers Diamonds — rael, in an article on evolu- referring to the dragon, the the most part small and and natural selection di- Precious Stones — Precision Time Pieces tion in the Enclyclopedia leviathan, the Rahab, and fortuitous, are in the view rected by a certain force of HARVARD ROW MALL Judaica. Prof. Feliks goes others. Having perhaps of scholars the basis of unknown nature. 11 Mile & Lahser 353-314 into detail on the subject of found traces of the foot- the evolutionary proc- ' prints of primeval animals Creation plus Evolution. esses. 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