And on another note, this is perhaps my 3rd time posting a new topic on YWNCR and this has been in the top 5 for 2 days. Yeah me!

@Nechomah: There is no other known animal that has split hooves and doesn’t chew its cud, like the chazir, but there are animals that chew their cud and don’t have split hooves, like the camel which is mentioned in the Torah and the Llama which is not.

Still not sure what this has to do with evolution. And it’s not “monkeys”, it’s apes, a different species. While I still am strong of the belief that everything comes from Hakadosh Baruch Hu, still He put in the world science and mathematics as a way to describe the world without Him in order that people should come to their beliefs through bechira. In other words, if there is absolute proof that there is an Abishter, no one will have any schar for believing in Him.

Evolution is just another aspect of science that exists in the world and I see no stira between that and the Torah anymore than there is a stira between red shift caused by Doppler effects and the Torah. How it fits into the Ma’aseh Beraishis is another issue, one that I’m frankly not bothered too much by.

If the frum community had put more focus on not making a Chillul Hashem and following Dina D’malchusa, we wouldn’t be saying tehillim for certain people who are in jail for criminal activities. These people are not martyrs, nor are they victims of antisemitic governments. They are people who committed criminal activities and must face the consequences, no matter how harsh or unfair they seem.

Most of the shidduch problem comes from the parents, not the people involved. Your average Yeshiva guy views 99% of the girls on the market as “very attractive”, it’s their mothers who demand pictures and say no if she’s not good enough. Your average Bais Yaakov girl will date any guy who knows how to learn, regardless of how many years and what Yeshiva he went to. It’s the mothers who insist on a guy with certain specific criteria.