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Paul Eidelberg is also the author of:

A Jewish Philosophy of History

Toward a Renaissance of Israel and America:
The Political Theology of Rabbi Eliyahu Benamozegh

by Paul Eidelberg

The Seven Noahide Laws of the Torah made the United States a great nation, a nation that saved Europe from two forms of tyranny — Nazism and Communism. Now the United States is confronted by a more dangerous form of tyranny, Islamism. Israel is the proximate target of Islam, but like the United States, it has strayed from its heritage.

The American people know hardly anything about the political theology of their Declaration of Independence, and are therefore ignorant of the political philosophy that inspired the Framers of the American Constitution. Similarly, most people in Israel are ignorant of the liberality and magnanimity of the Torah’s constitution of government. Both nations are in dire need of Rabbi Benamozegh’s teachings. Benamozegh’s erudition, his knowledge of the wisdom of "Jerusalem and Athens," the cities that fructified Western civilization, can help us overcome the enemy of civilization, totalitarian Islam.

Rabbi Benamozegh was profoundly concerned about the conflict between science and religion. We know that a morally neutral or "value-free" science can arm despotic regimes as well as democratic regimes. Hence it was necessary to reveal the progressive convergence of science and Torah. This convergence is illustrated, in the inorganic world, by the Big Bang Theory and its related Anthropic Principle. But we also need to reveal the convergence of science and Torah in the biotic world, which has been dominated by the Darwinian doctrine of chance mutation and natural selection, a doctrine that denies design. Since Darwinism is the most ubiquitous form of scientific naturalism, a doctrine subversive of spiritual values, this book reveals its biological and even logical shortcomings.

The Intelligent Design paradigm is examined without reference to the Torah. But since the Darwinian paradigm has replaced the creation narrative of Genesis to the extent of dominating academia in the West, it considers "Genesis man" from a linguistic and empirical perspective.