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*pokemon legends arceus spoilers
THE WRITER AND ACTOR’S STRIKES HAVE SUCCESSFULLY PAUSED THE PRODUCTION OF 4 MARVEL MOVIES!!!! thank you striking creatives.
Literally every conversation with a colleague/peer in the academic field I'm in (anthropology, with a focus on human prehistory and human evolution) upon them learning I'm an observant religious Jew goes like this:
Person: "Sorry if this is a personal question, but how do you.... y'know......deal with it?"
Me: "Deal with what?"
Person: "Y'know...... y'know......your religion......"
Me: "Meaning?"
Person: "Well, um, how old do you believe the earth is?"
Me: "I follow the geological consensus, which is approximately 4.5 Billion years"
Person: "But......but.....your Bible says that it's 6,000 years old....."
Me: "Technically 5,783 years, so you're wrong there, haha"
Person: "Okay but how do you....how do you reconcile that with science?"
Me: "I don't need to reconcile it. They're not in opposition."
Person: "??"
Me: "The plain text in the Tanakh states that it has been 5,783 years since the creation of Adam, and consequently the world. Judaism has never been about taking the text in the Tanakh plainly, there's always deeper meanings. Who's to say that the 5,783 years aren't just the years since a couple named Adam and Eve met and copulated, triggering the begining of the lineage of Abraham, Moses, and the entire Jewish lineage, and that the six days of creation aren't six phases which are actually pretty in-line with our understanding of evolution?"
Person: "But.....some people believe that it's literally been 5,783 years since the earth was literally created!"
Me: "Okay..... that's what they believe. I don't see how it should bother me, especially considering we're in the field of anthropology where we try to study other patterns of belief, not cast judgement upon them."
Person: "But other Jews believe that!!!"
Me: "Again.....why should that affect my religious and academic senses of self? Judaism has never been a monolith of belief, anyway."
Person: "But-"
Jewish Paleontologist who has this exact Discussion with Others and I Feel You
We were taught in Sunday school that the 6 days weren’t days as we see them because god has a different perception of time.
As for Abraham and Sarah being old as balls, we were told that people measured years differently back then. This seems more dubious as an adult, but given how many “birthdays” we celebrate (trees, animals, etc.), I can see the math mathing in a symbolic way.
When evolution was first posited in the western world and Jewish people reacted to it, the primary method of doing so was to fit Jewish ideas into evolution, and not to discredit it
in fact, many rabbis saw evolution as proof of gd's power through creation, not disproof
and the four worlds that were created and destroyed prior to ours in Kabbalah were assigned to the Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic!
Yeah, hell, even just for the concept of human evolution, there are Kabbalistic and spiritual ideas about the Adam that preceded Adam, either the animalistic Adam (via Rav Soloveitchik) or the Spiritually Previous Adam (via Chassidut), which both acknowledge the existence of people in some capacity before the dawn of Adam HaRishon. I mean even the Tanakh itself describes humans existing outside of Adam and Eve's family structure who copulated with the Bnei Elohim, so if they didn't come from Adam and Eve they had to have come from *somewhere*.
fishonthetree asked:
oh my I never heard about anurognathids before and it was the best google search possible
a-dinosaur-a-day answered:
^_^
HOW AM I JUST HEARING ABOUT THESE GUYS
CREATURE
I started this a few months ago, but I finally found the motivation to finish it up. So these are Amber's teen and child updated redesigns.
I might refine these and actually turn this into a ref sheet later on. I wanted to do her first since her human disguise will be the most important later in the series. But I do plan on redrawing/redesigning a few others as well. I have Mewtwo and Mew on my list since their human forms may show up in the series as well :> (I might do Newtwo's and Blu's just for fun lol) I'll probably do them over the weekend to take a break from comic stuff and take it easy. ^^
Reblog to come play this stupid homemade board game we're all making.
Arguing with a palaeontologist over what a dinosaur is 🤝 Arguing with Astronomers over whether the moon landing was real
*paleoclimatologist quietly raises hand*
all climatologists, but esp paleoclimatologists, deserve reparations from oil execs
