benignuman: of course it’s hard to fathom- it’s mindboggling to fathom, as our brains simply do not have enough scope or context to picture billions of years of evolution. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
If you show me a later quote from the same place that gives scientific reasons why one doesn’t compel the other, then ok. But saying that the problem is just that we can’t comprehend it when we think about it in real time doesn’t mean that it can’t be real.
Can you picture what Hashem is like?
Do you think that means He’s not real?
Lehavdil elef alfei ALFEI havdalos, of course, but just by being a Jew you know that just because we can’t picture something we can’t just throw it in the bin.