anon ( I’ll forget about you minusing things off) still the whole yesod of scientific thought even if it some innocent “simply the observations of some scientists” is EVIDENCE. That’s the whole scientific method, if you learned about it. You make a hypothesis, you need to find evidence. They challenge our mesorah of Har Sinai and just about everything because you must have EVIDENCE. Our answer is obvious: How many times has somebody bug u to prove something and u say, “I’ve seen it with my own eyes, I don’t need to prove it to u. We were at Har Sinai, atoh horayso lodaas ki hashem hu elokim ain od milvado – Hashem opened up the shomayim and showed us He was there, and non other (Rashi)! So the whole scientific method of analysis and everything that distorts everything is enough of a reason why not to learn it. If you happen to get an eidel science book (there aren’t much but I”ve seen a few that are semi eidel) then ok. But I still feel being mispoel from the briah is much better. I wouldn’t trust any of those kfira sponsered science books anyways.
I heard a moshel from a choshuve Rosh yeshiva that imagine you have a guy at NIagra Falls, and then he has a postcard. He’s standing right in front of Niagra Falls, but staring at the photograph saying how beautiful this is . That guy’s a fool he’s at Niagra FAlls!
Anyways, even if science books don’t negatively impact you because you’re so sure of yourself that you have an iron wall surrounding your neshoma (unfortuanantely I wasn’t blessed with anti-Hashpoah TM just boredom towards science books) there are so many people that got harmed! Just look at some of the people earlier in this article who were mevazeh Chazal about their knowledge of science! Didn’t the gedolim put somebody’s books on cherem for that?