A Jewish Perspective of the Theory of Evolution – A Response

Unfortunately, Dr Jacob in a response to my article entitled “Reflections on Darwinian Evolution – Is there a Jewish Perspective?”2 has followed that path. Once again we find sentences and statements such as “what he calls ...”, “a creationist fundamentalist view masquerading as ...”, “whitewashing apologetics”, “pays only lipservice”, etc. These “pearls” point to the problematic approach of some scientists who cannot bear any criticism of the “sacred religion” of Darwinian theory and have great difficulties to explain many fundamental issues in this theory; hence, by mocking opposing views they apparently find some comfort in their beliefs, some of which are – as pointed out in my article – scientifically completely unfounded. By contrast, I fully respect opposing views even if I disagree with them, such as those which are proposed in Dr Jacob’s article, and hence I shall relate briefly to some of Dr Jacob’s arguments in a factual manner.