Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucf-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!duke!ucf-cs!yiri From: yiri@ucf-cs.UUCP (Yirmiyahu BenDavid) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Frummies in Space Message-ID: <1593@ucf-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 11:25:43 EDT Article-I.D.: ucf-cs.1593 Posted: Fri Oct 19 11:25:43 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 15:05:36 EDT References: <125@ihu1j.UUCP> Organization: UCF, Orlando, FL Lines: 17 I read the story in the paper and (though I can't say I remember which rabbi it was), the story read essentially as you say. Regarding the consequences, my feelings are that this is another example where religious myopia has bumbled into the logi-scieintific arena. There seems to me to have been several instances (particularly in the Jerusalem Post over the past year) where the orthodox have taken an almost anti-intellectual position on matters of scholarship, logic, and science (which I regard together as inextricably interrelated). I am for the orthodox from the point of view of strong commitment to observance, but I'm skeptical of blind acceptance of such views as this. A related question might be: how much of Judasim is earth-bound? Is Judaism irrelevant in space? If there is life somewhere else, has the Creator founded another religion there? Is such inconsistency contradictory to perfection and immutability? Etc. ad infinitum.