Torah and Science

Does a woman simply receive and nourish a man’s seed? Or does she also produce her own seed to conceive a child?

Warning: Using contemporary science and philosophy to explain the Torah may soon render your interpretation obsolete.

Be it against Egypt or Israel, YHWH unleashes locusts as a divine retribution. Scientifically, grasshoppers metamorphose into locusts as a response to environmental disruption.

History according to Rashi, science according to Maimonides. In Maimonides’ view, the Sages knew that hidden behind the allegorical language of the creation account is Aristotelian physics. This knowledge was lost until he (Maimonides) figured out the secret on his own.

The Torah describes God creating through speech, midrash mores specifically understands creation through the letters of the aleph-bet, and the kabbalists envision it as a series of divine emanations, contractions, and primal pairings. What meaning can we find in these ancient creation myths in light of evolution?

Weighing the historicity of the exodus story entails more than addressing the lack of archaeological evidence.

How do they differ? What are their respective goals? And why the two should not be confused.