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
Which of the following Jews was a founder of a discipline of social science?
Question 2 of 10
Which of the following proponents of psychology or psychiatry was not Jewish?
Question 3 of 10
Which of these talmudic theories is supported by modern science?
Question 4 of 10
Some modern kabbalists connect the scientific theory about the exponential expansion of the universe to which mystical concept?
Question 5 of 10
What did Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook believe about Torah and science?
Question 6 of 10
Which Jewish thinker saw evolutionary theory as support for the Kabbalistic ideas of the unity of life?
Question 7 of 10
Who is the leading rabbi of the emerging Jewish-specific branch of psychology?
Question 8 of 10
Which of these people is known as the "zoo rabbi," and has authored books on science and Torah which were banned?
Question 9 of 10
What did Maimonides believe about astrology?
Question 10 of 10
Which of these Jews believed that religion was the "opium of the masses"?
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