On a visit to the zoo, a fellow went to see the Ape House. There sat a gorilla holding two books, one in each hand. In his right hand, he held a Bible, and in his left hand a copy of Darwin’s Origin of the Species .

“What’s with the books?” he asked the gorilla.

“I’m trying to figure out if I’m my brother’s keeper or my keeper’s brother.”

Who are we descended from, Adam or the apes? As someone once quipped, “If you prefer the genealogy of a gorilla for your family tree, you’re very welcome. As for me, I’ll take Adam and Eve any day.”

People respect science. And for the many millions of believers in the biblical version of creation, this has been a difficult philosophical problem to reconcile. So, as we prepare to begin anew the biblical story of Genesis this Shabbat, I thought it app

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