{"id":57,"date":"2009-04-29T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T09:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/04\/how-fascinating-the-underreported.html"},"modified":"2009-04-29T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T09:10:13","slug":"how-fascinating-the-underreported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/04\/how-fascinating-the-underreported.html","title":{"rendered":"What You Don&#8217;t Hear from the Media about Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How fascinating &#8212; the underreported revelation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolutionnews.org\/2009\/04\/who_is_james_le_fanu_part_iv_t.html\">modern evolutionary, genetic, and DNA science<\/a> &#8212; that physical, material causes are not enough to explain the history of life&#8217;s evolution and development &#8212; was understood by the rabbis more than a millennium ago. Rabbi\u00a0Bahya ibn Paquda\u00a0in <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Duties of the Heart<\/span>:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p>A person who does not understand the affairs of the world thinks that it is the new, created cause that effects change in things and their transformation from one state to another. Actually, [that] cause is too weak and insignificant to bring about the change or transformation of the essence of things&#8230;.[This] applies to the the generation of a human being and of other living creatures from a drop of semen, or the growth of a large fish from a tiny fish egg&#8221; (Gate of Trust in God, Chapter 3:3).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How fascinating &#8212; the underreported revelation of modern evolutionary, genetic, and DNA science &#8212; that physical, material causes are not enough to explain the history of life&#8217;s evolution and development &#8212; was understood by the rabbis more than a millennium ago. Rabbi\u00a0Bahya ibn Paquda\u00a0in Duties of the Heart:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifes-origins-evolution"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What You Don&#039;t Hear from the Media about Evolution - Kingdom of Priests<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/04\/how-fascinating-the-underreported.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What You Don&#039;t Hear from the Media about Evolution - Kingdom of Priests\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How fascinating &#8212; the underreported revelation of modern evolutionary, genetic, and DNA science &#8212; that physical, material causes are not enough to explain the history of life&#8217;s evolution and development &#8212; was understood by the rabbis more than a millennium ago. 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