Science & Judaism Quiz

How much do you know about the relationship between science and Judaism?

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The Bible and Talmud saw science and Jewish tradition as pathways to the same divine truth. But still, the two regularly come in conflict.

Question 1 of 10
What did Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook believe about Torah and science?
Question 2 of 10
How did the rabbis of the Talmud view science?
Question 3 of 10
How did Samuel bar Abba, a talmudic sage, calculate and determine the calendar and the dates of holidays many years in advance?
Question 4 of 10
True or false: Maimonides said that if a rabbi in the Talmud claims something that contradicts a known scientific fact, the Talmud's word must be trusted.
Question 5 of 10
Who first applied the anthropological study of folklore to the Jewish Bible?
Question 6 of 10
Where does this statement of wonder at the natural world--"How great are Your works, God, You made them all with wisdom"--come from?
Question 7 of 10
How do Jews respond to the contradiction between the creation story in Genesis and evolutionary theory?
Question 8 of 10
Which Jewish thinker saw evolutionary theory as support for the Kabbalistic ideas of the unity of life?
Question 9 of 10
True or false: An autopsy was performed in the Talmud to reveal the exact number of joints and limbs in the human body.
Question 10 of 10
True or false: In traditional Jewish thought, evolution is always rejected.
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