Science & Judaism Quiz

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

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
Which of these Jewish thinkers was not also a scientist?
Question 2 of 10
True or false: In traditional Jewish thought, evolution is always rejected.
Question 3 of 10
What event proved Einstein's Theory of Relativity right?
Question 4 of 10
In which region did medieval Jews not embrace the study of natural sciences and philosophy?
Question 5 of 10
In traditional Jewish law, who decides whether a person who is sick should eat on Yom Kippur?
Question 6 of 10
Some modern kabbalists connect the scientific theory about the exponential expansion of the universe to which mystical concept?
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
How did the rabbis of the Talmud view science?
Question 10 of 10
Which of these Jewish thinkers also developed astronomical models, tables for solar and lunar motion, and a plan for a camera obscura?

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