10 Friday, October 1, 1983 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Evolution-Creation Battle Erupts in Israeli Schools (Continued from Page 1)' taught there as literal truth, both as part of the re- ligious studies and in the limited science curriculum. Ultra-Orthodox schools teach no science at all. Some protagonists for the change have views remark- ably like those of the crea- 3 SUPERVISED MEALS DAILY • NUTRITIONIST FREE MASSAGES • MEN'S & WOMEN'S SPAS > ■ • FREE DANCE LESSONS • GOLF(AVAILI• TENNIS agg , CLINICS • NITELY DANCING & ENTERTAINMENT on pri rift ""'"' CALL TOLL FREE FOR A BROCHURE no 1-800-327-7510 *. AS LOW AS $ Daily, p.p. dbl. occ. Based on11 day stay IV 611 A teacher works with students in an Israeli clas- sroom. - 41( SOLO OUT UNTIL OCT 26th HOTEL • POOL • TENNIS • CLUB IS MAN BEACH'S NUMBER 1 LUXURY KOSHER HOTEL . • Olympic Heated Pool • Private All Weather Tennis Courts ‘!; • ti t ANTE The Very Best In Service For All Your Travel Needs. 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They now fact most of the Israelis' ar- passionately reject evolu- guments seem to be taken tion as strongly as they pre- from them verbatim. viously accepted it and Both groups believe that yearn to be in the battle the creation account in against it. Genesis is literally true and These newly-religious is also an alternative scien- are heavily represented tific explanation of the among the parents plan- origin and defferentiation ning to go to the Supreme of plant and animal species.. Court. Both want the Genesis ac- Parents who send their count to be granted equal c hildren to non-religious scientific standing with s chools and are satisfied Darwin's theory of evolu- with them see this as an at- tion which they claim is un- tempt to change them into provable and not really sci- r eligious schools. They entific. trongly object to what they In recent years, the f eel is creeping religious struggle of Orthodox c oercion. After all, had they Judaism with the non- wanted religious schools Orthodox segments of Is- t hey would have sent their rael's population has, c hildren there in the first grown more intense. One lace, they argue. aspect is the contention Many members of the sci- that it is only reasonable e ntific community (includ- that the creation account i ng some religious scientists be presented in secular w ho consider, with Darwin, schools by' religious t hat evolution does not de- teachers, who are the t ract from God's majesty but only ones able to present r ather adds to it), object to it properly and with con- c reation science as an at- viction. empt to: present religious The social basis for the faith as science, by people controversy is provided by w ho do not understand the two disparate sections of theory of evolution. Others Orthodox Judaism in Israel: a dd that if creation science One section consists of i s be presented in non- young, moderately Of eligios schools, then thodox people who, in recent, e volution should be prop- years, have moved into skil- e rly presented in all religi- led technical and scientific c, us schools. occupations via a number of It is difficult to foretell excellent religious voca- h ow this case will develop. If tional and technical high it eventually gets to the schools. These people are c ourt, it is not too farfetched prepared to accept the prat- t hat the court might rule tical technical benefits of t hat both views be given science but are wary of the e qual presentation, equal skepticism associated with ti me and equal credence in it. oth types of 'schools. This group cannot ac- At best this would be a commodate evolution to yrrhic victory for the their beliefs. Yet they all too p etitioners. But neither often come into confronta- would it satisfy their oppo- tion with evolution and as- n ents. sociated theories such as geology which they feel eth Hatefutsot contradict the first chapter S ponsors 1984 of the Book of Genesis. They are most interested in hav- Photo Contest ing the creation account TEL AVIV — `-`Jewish presented as science. Heritage in the Eyes of the Camera," a photography' contest documenting Jewish community life sts throughout the world, will be sponsored by the Associ- ation of Friends of Beth Hatefutsot, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora. The competitidn, which is being co-sponsored by the Jerusalem Post, will run ■ through May 30. Amateur photographers of all ages who wish to participate in the contest may enter five to 20 photographs illustrating Jewish life. 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