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A Review of Robert Pollack’s The Faith of Biology and the Biology
ByEditor January 24, 2002January 3, 2014

Review of Robert Pollack. The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith: Order, Meaning and Free Will in Modern Medical Science. Columbia Series in Science and Religion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xvi+125p. Bibliography, index. Robert Pollack, a dedicated scientist who in recent years has returned to his religious heritage to become…

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Judaism Contribution to Creating a more Humane Medical Science
ByEditor August 7, 2000January 3, 2014

The Bible describes three different worlds, three successive experiments of a sort, each of them acknowledging greater imperfection in human behavior. In Eden, humans are immortal, vegetarian, and at peace. Outside Eden, where Cain Kills Abel, they are mortal and violent. After the Flood, they are no less violent, and, beginning with Noah himself, they…

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