Reply To: Is Learning Science Spiritually Dangerous?

I think science only serves to enhance our emunah. If Chazal said something that we know to be scientifically inaccurate, perhaps our understanding of THEIR understanding is inaccurate, or perhaps it is not an halachic issue, so we should not be so concerned about it. In general, Chazal seem to have had a really impressive understanding of the world, of illness, of human nature, etc. without all the fancy accoutrements of today. So if they misspoke about lice and its source, or if they understood it differently, big deal. They still knew what was treif and what was kosher. And more important, they knew how to treiber out the gid hanasheh, so we could eat the good steak! Bottom line – this is nit-picking (pun intended).