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From: yiri@ucf-cs.UUCP (Yirmiyahu BenDavid)
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Subject: Re: Frummies in Space
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Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 11:25:43 EDT
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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.