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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.

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Question 1 of 10
Which of these statements has been used to explain the prominence of Jews in psychology?
Question 2 of 10
How have Jewish institutions such as the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee dealt with attempts to introduce Intelligent Design into public schools?
Question 3 of 10
In traditional Jewish law, who decides whether a person who is sick should eat on Yom Kippur?
Question 4 of 10
Which of the following Jews was a founder of a discipline of social science?
Question 5 of 10
True or false: In traditional Jewish thought, evolution is always rejected.
Question 6 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 7 of 10
Who is the leading rabbi of the emerging Jewish-specific branch of psychology?
Question 8 of 10
True or False: Carl Jung was Jewish.
Question 9 of 10
Which of these Jewish thinkers also developed astronomical models, tables for solar and lunar motion, and a plan for a camera obscura?
Question 10 of 10
Which of these Jews believed that religion was the "opium of the masses"?
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