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Menachem Shmei
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@Avram, I have very little comprehension of science, so I couldn’t exactly understand or come up with any specific proofs.

What I meant was that if scientists claimed that the earth DEFINITELY rotates around the sun, then there might be room for some ספיקות in our belief in what the Torah says, and there might be a need for apologetics and taking the Torah out of its literal meaning (as Reb Eliezer did before).

However, since according to my simple research (as I said before, google: “pressconnects earth revolves around sun”. ועוד), as well as according to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s letters which I mentioned before (google: “Rebbe sun earth”) –
scientists themselves acknowledge that it is impossible for them to prove one way or the other (according to Einstein’s theory of relativity) – I no longer have an issue with taking the Torah’s view literally.

This is one of the many examples of things which in previous generations Torah seemed to contradict science, yet modern science supports the Torah beautifully.