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120 | Jeremy England on Biology, Thermodynamics, and the Bible

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is the Hebrew Bible Really Anticipating Ideas?

Yeimean: It would be crazy to think that there was nothing of vale to be found in religious scriptures or traditions. But it's a little bit different to talk about scientific questions verse a sort of a finding purpose and meaning of life questions. He says the hebrew bible literally anticipated ideas that we're now thinking of, or can be used to illuminate them by thinking about them in more metaphorical ways. Yeimean: I don't want to advocate for relating to the text of the he Hebrew bible as saying, well, be this is revelation from the hand of the world's creator.

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